Embodiment
Can obtain self-study content and the tutoring system of effectively following the trail of study schedule for setting up one, the present invention proposes a kind of hand-held control device with communication and memory function, and a kind of tutoring system and its How It Works that uses this hand-held control device to realize proposed, wherein be characterised in that and utilize network to set up the environment of a high in the clouds access, can store the information that the learner utilizes this hand-held control device to produce, obtain by this learner's learning content, utilize this high in the clouds technology to obtain synchronous study schedule.
Can consult the embodiment schematic diagram of tutoring system of the present invention shown in Figure 3.Show each the end equipment that links to network 3 among the figure, comprise the server 31 of being located at network 3 one ends and the database 311 that links.According to the embodiment of the invention, possesses the learning information that the server 31 of teaching database 311 is passed back for the treatment of each end teaching equipment, comprise the data message that the classroom end 35 that shows among the figure produces by interactive teaching, also receive by non-classroom end 33 (as in the family, particular place) learning content that transmits, and in database 311, set up search index and data link.
According to the embodiment described in this figure, the particular place of classroom end 35 for providing a plurality of learners to impart knowledge to students, the instructor can utilize wherein, and teaching equipment 351 carries out interactive teaching with each learner, projection screen such as with the electronic whiteboard, electronic console or the projector that show in scheming presents the content of courses by display screen.Teaching equipment 351 herein can pass through computer system, through network 3 line servers 31, a teaching interface is provided, can show the content of courses of linked database 311.
A plurality of learners can use hand-held control device 354,355, and 356 operate for the content of courses, and operation comprises the problem that teaching equipment 351 proposes of responding.This routine hand-held control device 354,355,356 possesses radio communication function, can in order to transmit with teaching equipment 351 on the interactive teaching and learning signal that produces when interactive of teaching interface.
According to one of embodiment, when starting hand-held control device 354,355,356 o'clock, telecommunication circuit wherein can be by wired or wireless means and classroom end 35 interior set signal receiving device 353 lines, and this signal receiving device 353 is the relay of each equipment external connection in the classroom end 35, so that the learner operates hand-held control device 354,355,356 o'clock, wherein signal was passed to server 31 through network 3.This signal receiving device 353 can be the device of an independent running, by communication function external connection wherein; Also can link with computer system, such as the transceiver with a dongle (dongle) pattern, in order to receive one or more hand-held control device 354,355, the 356 interactive teaching and learning signals that produce can be obtained the information of the transmission of each device by this, and transfer to server 31.When one or more hand-held control device 354,355,356 was opened, signal receiving device 353 will receive the line signal of separate sources, therefore, and signal receiving device 353 or can be applicable on the effect of roll-call.
According to embodiment, in this tutoring system, the content of courses has all been filed in the database 311 of server 31, and each content of courses all can be marked with identification label.Hand-held control device that the learner holds 354,355,356 also have unique identification code (ID) separately, can identify user's identity by this, respond for each content of courses when utilizing these devices, corresponding identification label, temporal information, by hand-held control device 354,355,356 identification code and the signal of generation all can be passed to server 31, because server 31 is with the concept running of high in the clouds storage, therefore the learning data of setting up by this all can be in the usefulness of carrying out Anywhere access, providing detecting study schedule and search in the future.
The mode that is different from teaching end 35 at the other end of tutoring system, the place of the medium non-teaching in classroom mode of the study occasion of this type of non-classroom end 33 such as family, the learner can hold hand-held control device 333 and read content on the teaching material 331.
In this example, non-classroom end 33 has a hand-held control device 333, the learner can hand this and install 333 reading teaching materials 331, and hand-held control device 333 embodiment mentioned herein can be a kind of electronic pen with read-on-command function, is used for reading the site code of laying on the picture and text of books.Circuit comprises an optical read/write head of being located at nib in the hand-held control device, and by the site code on the scanning of the inductor in the read/write head teaching material 331, these learning informations all may be passed to by the communication function on the hand-held control device server 31; In addition, hand-held control device can have sound-recording function, and the speech data that the learner can be read is recorded, and files on server 31.
According to the embodiment of the invention, when the learner carries out recording by above-mentioned hand-held control device 333, by the recording interlock circuit recorded voice in the hand-held control device 333, and can be temporary in the storer in the device 333 (circuit can with reference to figure 4), afterwards after being connected to computer system, the network connectivity function elder generation logon server 31 that provides by computer system again transmits recording file afterwards to the database of server 31; In another way, also do not get rid of the radio communication function that utilizes in the hand-held control device 333 and directly recording file is passed to server 31.
About the circuit component of above-mentioned hand-held control device, can consult the embodiment circuit block diagram of the hand-held control device that Fig. 4 discloses.The hand-held control device 4 that the present invention discloses specifically possesses real-time feedback system is arranged (Instant Response System, IRS) function, namely can be converted to wired the data-signal of wherein processing or the packet signal of wireless transmission in real time, the system by another wire net be passed on the cloud server.
According to embodiment, hand-held control device 4 is hand-held for the learner, and shell that therefore can a pen type coats wherein circuit, comprises the microprocessing unit 401 and each functional circuit that is electrically connected this microprocessing unit 401 of the circuit signal in the treating apparatus.Storage unit 402 in the device 4 can be the flash memory that is updated or other nonvolatile memories (Non-volatile memory) in the device, can be in order to the necessary program of recording device running, the executive routine that comprises real-time feedback system, can put down in writing in addition want the program interpreter of the site code of reading.
Hand-held control device 4 can wired or wireless (device has antenna) the communication technology and computer system or above-mentioned wireless signal receiver carries out line, wherein has a communication unit 403, for processing wireless communication protocol signal or the circuit of wire transmission signal, communication unit 403 is electrically connected microprocessing unit 401, set up external connection by special communication protocol, process the signal transmission of hand-held control device 4.
Hand-held control device 4 wherein has decoding unit 404 for reading an a kind of mediation device that is loaded with the operation indication interface of the content of courses, and the code that hand-held control device 4 is read by read head 410 is decoded, and produces a reading out data.Will be by the comparing of storage unit 402 wherein through the data of these decoding unit 404 deciphers, can broadcast by loudspeaker 409 afterwards, also can be passed to cloud server by means of communication, the content that reads by the decoding function in the cloud server again.
Because hand-held control device 4 can be independently device, therefore will use powered battery, and by the electrical arrangement in power management unit 405 management devices 4, and with the external transmission of signal of radio connecting mode.But in another embodiment, this hand-held control device 4 can connect first a host computer by wired mode, such as the output/input unit 411 that is electrically connected at microprocessing unit 401 among the figure, output/input unit 411 is responsible for processing the external wired line signal of hand-held control device 4, via output/input interface 413 (such as passing through USB, USB (universal serial bus)) the line computer system 40, not getting rid of can be by computer system 40 direct power taking, all can directly be passed to the computer of line by operating means 4 signal that produces and the data that read, be done the processing of communication by computer.
Hand-held control device 4 includes an Audio Processing Unit 406, be electrically connected microprocessing unit 401, hand-held control device 4 is by these Audio Processing Unit 406 processing audio, comprise and connect illustrated microphone 408, can (or need not) possess a hole that receives sound in hand-held control device 4, receive by this voice signal that the learner produces in study, such as being that the requirement learner reads the content of indicating on the teaching material, start the voice recording function of hand-held control device 4 this moment, receive and the execution compressed voice signal by Audio Processing Unit 406, after setting up file, can be passed to cloud server by communication mode.
Device 4 is connected with loudspeaker 409 by Audio Processing Unit 406, and the outward appearance of device 4 can possess a hole of sounding (perhaps need not), reads hand-held control device 4 on the teaching material or the sound equipment that produces when interactive plays back.Function comprises that then hand-held control device 4 outsides are provided with volume adjusting interface 421 in addition, as be electrically connected to the sound volume regulation unit 407 of Audio Processing Unit 406, the volume that is connected at hand-held control device 4 outsides is adjusted interface 421 (such as button, touch-control), can provide learner (user) to adjust the volume that plays sound.Recording file or the data of generation recorded by hand-held control device 4 will pass in real time by the communication unit 403 on the device.
Then, hand-held control device 4 also can possess a display interface 422 is arranged, the mode by a display panel, cresset etc. that comprises shows information, such as the electric power that presents display device 4 by cresset (such as change color, flicker, brightness) or demonstration information, read, the state such as communications status, data transmission.Hand-held control device 4 also can possess the hand switch of control device power state, such as power switch 423, self does not pass through the equiprobable power state of dormancy, shutdown, running of the technology control device 4 of electrical management but do not get rid of hand-held control device 4.
Fig. 5 then demonstration utilizes hand-held control device terminal device in tutoring system to use schematic diagram.
Expression is provided with the teaching material 5 of graph-text content among the figure, this is a kind of operation indication interface, the educational aid of providing convenience by operation indication and the content of courses of top printing, teaching material 5 tops are equipped with a kind of site code 501 that is loaded with the content of corresponding picture and text, the tutoring system that the present invention proposes and the embodiment of hand-held control device are not got rid of the technology of utilizing other readings, such as being provided with optical identification code, sensor circuit in the teaching material 5, or cooperate other equipment to produce the equipment of reading effects.
At the example shown in this figure, wherein hand-held control device 50 presents a pencil type apparatus through coating shell, and the pencil type apparatus shell can be provided with one of power switch, volume adjusting interface and display interface or the control interface of a plurality of combinations.Hand-held control device 50 can utilize wired or wireless mode connects computer 52, to link to network 54 by these computers 52, and be wired to a server 56 of being located at far-end, the signal that transmits is the content of the teaching material 5 that hand-held control device 50 reads, or the signal that produces through interaction, or the recorded audio signals that produces by sound-recording function on the hand-held control device 50.
According to this example, the learner can hold the identification code of laying on these hand-held control device 50 contact teaching materials 5, such as a kind of encoded and site code 501 or the sensor circuit of carrying information, drawing on the teaching material has graph-text content, and the relative position of various graph-text content namely is equipped with identification code.Figure, literal on read head contact teaching material 5 on the hand-held control device 50, behind the demoder scanning recognition code through installing the decoding unit in 50, the actions such as recording can be carried out and read content, generation voice signal, be carried out to the data that are loaded with in the correspondence of decoding goes out hand-held control device 50 again.Also pass through computer 52, network 54 lines and transmission of signal to server 56.
According to inventive embodiments, hand-held control device 5 is the central principal axis of invention, can produce instructional signal by this hand-held control device 5, comprise memory storage in the device, send sound equipment by loudspeaker, will be via the content that produces behind the picture and text on the read/write head reading teaching material in the corresponding stored device, and can play back by sound equipment, the sound recording that the sound-recording function on the hand-held control device 5 then can be read the learner is also set up recording file.
Specifically, each hand-held control device 5 can be the instrument of exclusive particular learner, the identification code that wherein has will correspond to learner's numbering or recognition data, therefore it is the learning information which learner produces that the identification code signal that spreads out of can correspond to easily, after database is filed, set up learning process that should the learner.The signal that hand-held control device 5 spreads out of also includes recording file and interactive teaching and learning signal, and these all can together store in the learning process of particular learner.
Fig. 6 A signal shows one of classroom end embodiment in the tutoring system of the present invention.
This classroom end is different from the process of self-study, but still the environment of individual interactive learning can be provided.The classroom end has the teaching equipment 6 of the various contents of courses of demonstration and the loudspeaker 601 of playback, and teaching equipment 6 communicates to connect to computer 61, mainly is to receive the content of courses that computer 61 transmits, to provide interactive teaching with the work-place study person.In this example, a plurality of learners can hold respectively hand-held control device 603,604,605, and cooperate a kind of operation indication interface 606,607 in good time, 608, this indication interface can be a kind of of teaching material, or simply is the interface of a keyboard or mouse, allows learner's hand-held control device come reading or option of operation.
For instance, when showing some, teaching equipment 6 needs interactive picture, as ask a question, require to do action etc., the learner namely operates hand-held control device 603,604,605, on operation indication interface 606,607,608, click, carry out answer, the actions such as mosaic, these actions are namely by hand-held control device 603,604, and 605 produce corresponding signal, these signals will correspond to the textbook content numbering, together be delivered to server 67 by computer 61, carry out index by server 67 interior databases, file, with the personalized learning information of organizational system, can be in the future inquiry, the inquiry can obtain learning content and the progress of special time.
The identification code of each hand-held control device is preferably numbering or other identifying informations that corresponds to the learner, and therefore system can grasp each learner's learning content and progress, or even the interactive answer content that produces, by this can each self-appraisal amount successes achieved in teaching.
The classroom end is provided with and connects computer 61 or the signal receiving device 63 that can independently operate, and in order to receive hand-held control device 603,604,605 signals that produce are passed to server 67 through network 65 with learning information afterwards.Signal receiving device 63 is because therefore the different hand-held control device 603,604,605 of difference line can be used as roll-call, affirmation line whether judgement instrument.
Enumerate again an example, shown in the figure as the teaching equipment 6 of an electronic whiteboard, can show various teaching pictures, comprise can with hold hand-held control device 603,604,605 learner carries out the question and answer interaction.In this example, because each learner can pass through hand-held control device 603,604,605 with system's line, behind line, can show the learner that reaches the standard grade and the content of response on the electronic whiteboard, such as " student one ", " student two " and " student three " that show among the figure.In this example, show a teaching exercise question on the blank, the below prompting has several options, and each learner can answer by operation indication interface 606,607,608, but each learner's answer also simultaneous display on electronic whiteboard.
The embodiment of tutoring system according to the present invention, system provides each learner to utilize hand-held control device to be in and uses interactive teaching material, utilize the environment of wire net in the family that learning content and information are passed to far-end server, the operation-interface that provides by server wherein will be provided, and one of them is provided at the exclusive software that computer is carried out for system; Then web page contents can be provided in addition, behind identity identification, server can be logined smoothly, and the beginning transmission of information.
Pattern that can an external receiver with respect to signal receiving device 63 shown in Fig. 6 A realizes, also can be such as the diagram of Fig. 6 B, there is a small-sized signal receiving device 63 ' to be plugged on the computer 61, the signal receiving device 63 ' of pattern receives from each end hand-held control device 603 by this, 604,605 signals that produce.Signal receiving device 63 ' herein is such as being the wireless software dog transceiver (dongle) by a computer interfaceJi Suanjijiekou (such as USB) connection computer 61.
Fig. 7-1, Fig. 7-2, Fig. 7-3, Fig. 7-4 then signal show User's Interface in the tutoring system.
This routine tutoring system starts a teaching website via the webpage servo programe in the cloud server, the webpage servo programe is the program that is stored in the storer, after server is carried out, link the information of teaching database by the web displaying of teaching website, comprise visual interactive information, as login webpage, corresponding student learner's data, study schedule, the amount of commenting and the learning data of logining of demonstration, inquiry and the function of browsing wherein can be provided.Teaching website is mainly except providing the learner to login inquiry and set up the archives, the effects such as the teaching process of wherein putting down in writing can preview for the inquiry of the head of a family in the future, student, listen in the review, line, in addition set up school and inter-household contact pipeline by interface wherein, such as a kind of electronic family connection book.
The webpage 7 that can inquire about student's study schedule is described among Fig. 7-1, after logining server, wherein website data will demonstrate various inquiry fields 701, wherein may enumerate many queried for items, area as shown, branch school, authority, student's data, class and date etc., embodiment and be not limited to these descriptions.Query Result then can be listed in webpage 7 belows, this example is shown as each learner's data 703, particularly including " smart pen startup " field, whether the learner that this field can be inspected present correspondence starts hand-held control device of the present invention, and these signals can the present student's state of real time reaction.
Then, shown in Fig. 7-2, webpage 8 has been described the learning process of particular learner, schematic diagram comprises through the result after the inquiry, the top field is shown master data 705, such as this learner's of showing among the figure the information such as area, branch school, account number, authority, course and name, design modifying on demand during enforcement.The below field then represents the learner's that inquires about learning information 707, and content such as figure show needle preview and review number of times each course (unit one, unit second-class), and these information can be understood for the inquiry learning process of particular learner.
9 of the webpages that Fig. 7-3 shows schematically illustrate particular learner for the study condition of certain course, comprise the various amount of commenting results, and these amounts of commenting result can be produced by hand-held control device proposed by the invention, is received by server, and is recorded in the database.Through inquiry, the master data 705 ' of field and the learning outcome 709 of below field above webpage 9 is described and comprised.Learning outcome 709 comprises that specific student's individual character, meaning and the grammatical structure sentence etc. distinguished with the aid of pictures comment quantifier purpose result.The hand-held control device that this result can be proposed by the present invention equally collected data when answer draw.
User's Interface in the tutoring system that shows according to Fig. 7-4, this example provide the webpage of listening to the recording file that the learner uploads by network for tutoring system.Webpage 10 shown in it has been described the recording file that particular learner produces, particularly produce by the sound-recording function in the hand-held control device disclosed in the present specification, webpage 10 top field signals show the master data 705 of particular learner "; the below field then shows the learner's who inquires about recording file information 711; learner can produce corresponding recording file for different course unit, also just shows such as the recording file field 713 of each course unit in the webpage 10 and corresponding time field 715.Therefore, the webpage 10 that teacher can utilize tutoring system to provide is inspected or is listened to each audio archive, in order to judge learner's study schedule and results of learning.In addition, embodiment does not also get rid of other users through the account number of system authorization and listens to recording, such as providing parents of student or learner itself through authorizing to listen to the sound of recording by webpage 10 in this example.
Using above-mentioned hand-held control device then can be with reference to How It Works process flow diagram shown in Figure 8 in the flow process of tutoring system generation.
Beginning is such as step S801, the learner starts the power supply of hand-held control device, start afterwards the telecommunication circuit in the hand-held control device, comprise and send signal and computer system or the signal receiving device line of classroom end, such as step S803, in the environment in non-classroom, can the line computer system, purpose is by the network connectivity far-end server, by this and set up a line between the server, and such as step S805.
In the line process, such as step S807, server will require identification, method comprises that the website of logining server and providing logins server (step S809), or the action that can reach the identification identity by identification code in the hand-held control device, such as identification code or individual user's identity information of hand-held control device, then set up according to this line that can put down in writing the personalized learning content.Afterwards, in the learning process, can produce learning data (step S811) by hand-held control device, server will be set up according to identifying information individual's learning database (step S813).The data that wherein obtain comprise the data (such as the recording file of recording by hand-held control device) that hand-held control device transmits, such as control device and the interactive interactive teaching and learning signal that produces of teaching equipment, above-mentioned self-study database will be put down in writing the content of courses of teaching equipment demonstration and the linking relationship (step S815) of interactive teaching and learning signal.
Can inquire about by the webpage that system provides by the various education informations that above-mentioned tutoring system produces, flow process shown in Figure 9 is described in the step of inquiring about in the tutoring system.
Beginning is such as step S901, server will require the people who enters the website to login server, follow the server identification person of logining identity (step S903), and produce an interaction interface according to the person's of logining authority, during enforcement, the user of login in server will according to authorize respectively different authorities, comprise the inquiry, revise the equiprobable difference of people, teacher, learner, supvr of setting up data, and provide corresponding webpage (step S905) according to the person's of logining authority.
Afterwards, the query page input inquiry condition (step S907) that the person of logining can provide by server, servo programe is then carried out inquiry (step S909), and obtains the Query Result (step S911) of learning data after the comparison.
The tutoring system that the present invention discloses mainly is the hand-held control device by corresponding learner's identity, the user will operate this hand-held control device, comprise actions such as carrying out reading, answer, the broadcast content of courses, recording, to together be recorded in cloud server with education informations through network, can originate according to signal, namely each hand-held control device building database is namely set up the personalized learning process of learner, and technology is set up an intelligent tutoring system according to this.
According to the described hand-held control device of this instructions, use tutoring system and the How It Works of hand-held control device, allow equipment and the course of self-study, cooperate the technological concept of high in the clouds system, a scheme that effectively integrates various education resources is provided.Therefore, the mode of study can be put in order and be comprised:
Pattern one: learning information is integrated in webpage, because curricula and learning process that all study are relevant all are stored in the high in the clouds system, therefore the learner can obtain various education resources by webpage whenever and wherever possible, can reach the mode that previews, learns with three learning phase the bests such as reviewing;
Pattern two: learner's study of can being in, the learner can obtain in the past elsewhere learning information at any time by the high in the clouds technology, can utilize at home and cooperate relevant teaching material, the information that classroom, other local learning process are produced is by the high in the clouds system downloads, again the learning content in the family is uploaded, comprise recording, therefore reach the seamless aim of learning that integrates with;
Pattern three: the learner can participate in group's teaching in classroom, interactive teaching by the classroom end, can produce comparation and assessment between the learner, same and the high in the clouds systematic connection of the teaching material in classroom, study process and content all with the high in the clouds system synchronization, not only provide learner's study elsewhere to be connected, and convenient the review, more allow father and mother or other people understand individual's learning process and progress.
Only the above only be better possible embodiments of the present invention, and is non-so namely limit to claim of the present invention, therefore the equivalent structure variation of such as using instructions of the present invention and diagramatic content to do all in like manner is contained in the scope of the present invention, closes and gives Chen Ming.