METHOD AND APPARATUS ENABLING A CASE-STUDY APPROACH TO ONLINE LEARNING

摘要

A system and method for offering to a large pool of students a loosely synchronous online course that facilitates student interactions and behavior to emulate a physical case-study classroom. The large pool of students is divided into cohorts of a smaller number of students. Course content is divided into lessons and lesson content is released according to a schedule so that an individual student may progress through a course relatively independently but which prohibits a student from progressing to a subsequent lesson until a defined release date. Content within a lesson is selected in response to an interaction by the student with the content and with other students, so that interactions of a cohort with the content in a lesson influences the selection of subsequent content for the lesson, and in which interactions of a student with the stored content becomes student derived content to be shared with the cohort.