MASTERY-BASED ONLINE LEARNING SYSTEM

摘要

An online learning system includes a student engine, a courses engine and a reports engine. The student engine processes identification information for students registered in an online university. The courses engine includes a competencies engine, a challenges engine and a milestones engine. The competencies engine organizes online courses into topics of study. The challenges engine provides one or more series of open-ended questions on the topics of study. The milestones engine provides a series of multiple choice questions on the topics of study. The multiple choice questions are only accessible when a percentage of the open-ended questions in each of the series of open-ended questions are answered correctly. The reports engine provides data relating to student performance.

主权项

1. A method implemented on an electronic computing device for learning in on an online university, the method comprising:
on the electronic computing device, rending a first user interface for the online university, the user interface permitting the selection of one or more online courses; receiving a selection of an online course; after the selection of the online course is received, rendering a second user interface showing a plurality of challenges and a milestone associated with a first topic of a plurality of topics included in the online course, each challenge corresponding to a plurality of first questions relating to the first topic, each first question being an open-ended question, each milestone corresponding to a plurality of second questions relating to the first topic, each second question being a multiple choice question; receiving answers to the first questions for each of the challenges; when a number of correct answers to the first questions of each challenge is greater than a first predetermined percentage, rendering a third user interface on the electronic computing device, the third user interface showing the plurality of second questions relating to the first topic, the third user interface prevented from being rendered until the correct answers to the first questions for each of the challenges is greater than the first predetermined percentage; receiving answers to the second questions; and when a number of correct answers of the plurality second questions is greater than a second predetermined percentage, designating that the milestone for the first topic has been passed.