CN105760432A - Equipment and method for electronic learning - Google Patents

Abstract

A method or device is used to help users use multiple electronic books, and when users use an electronic book, help users find assistance from the World Wide Web, and help users do homework, and at the same time, prevent plagiarism of homework.

Description

A device and method for e-learning

technical field

This invention relates to computer-based devices, particularly those used to assist people in learning.

Background technique

With the development of electronic computing technology, people who are still studying, or have graduated, or have developed their personal careers, are increasingly relying on computers for their studies.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a method and a device for simplifying the operation of electronic computing devices when using different documents related to a subject or subject.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is a user's learning activity record belonging to the present invention, which is expressed in a tabular form.

Figure 2 is a schematic diagram showing the relationship between an input question and its corresponding answer stored in memory.

Figure 3 is an example of "Homework A", expressed graphically.

specific implementation plan

According to the present invention, it provides a program for use in an electronic computing device. The electronic computing device is loaded with a number of electronic books on different subjects or subjects.

When executed, the program monitors the activities of the user of the electronic computing device. It records the identity, time and date of the opened e-book on the electronic computing device. As an example, Figure 1 shows a record in tabular form automatically generated by the program.

As shown in Figure 1, on July 12, 2010, the user of the device opened the e-book "Basic English", during the period of 09:00-09:50am, and at about the same period, that is, 09 :20-09:55am, the user opened another e-book "Spelling". In addition, the user also opened another e-book "Grammar" at 09:07-09:43am.

These three e-books will be automatically combined by the program and placed in item 1 of the chart, so that in the future, the user only needs to click on any part of item 1, and the program will automatically open this Three e-books, and opening them at the last pages they were last read by the user, that is, page 125, page 113, pp. 22 and 25.

The grouping of eBooks can be based on different factors such as 1) the time period when the user opens them, it should be noted that since the user may be a student and he will be in class on time, those within the same hour , which may be the time period of the classroom of a certain subject, and the used e-books can be combined into a combination for the convenience of readers, because the user may repeatedly use this combination in the next class of the same subject; 2) e-books The category or discipline to which the books belong, which can be judged from its title and abstract, or subtitle, or title, or part or all of the content of each e-book, and if an e-book is opened An eBook belonging to a different subject than other eBooks belonging to the same portfolio can be deleted from the portfolio. And item 1 may be generated after the user attends an English class.

Alternatively, the program can create an entry in the form for each class in an electronic timetable that the user should attend, by the time period specified by a corresponding class in the electronic timetable In it, the e-books opened by the user and their last opened page are recorded and stored in a project.

Furthermore, if the user opens the electronic timetable to be displayed, and clicks on a class, the program will determine whether the class has an item associated with it.

If the result of the judgment is that there is such an item, it means that the user participated in the class at an earlier time, and may now want to review what was previously taught. The program will automatically open all e-books corresponding to the items in the form of the clicked class, and open each e-book to its last opened page.

If the judgment result is that there is no such item, it means that this class is the class that the user will participate in soon. The program will automatically open all e-books corresponding to the item in the chart in the last class that the user of the same subject of the clicked class has participated in.

As mentioned above, it is worth noting that it is beneficial for the program to monitor the user's activity to determine whether an e-book is opened by the user, read only for a short time and then maintained a " "open" state for an unnecessarily long period of time, simply because the user forgot to close the e-book, its displayed content was covered by another e-book, or it was caused to be in a "minimum" state, i.e. That is to say, only a small icon representing the e-book is displayed on an inconspicuous corner of the display screen of the electronic computing device, and its content is not displayed on the display screen, even if the user has left the e-book. The computing device is freed to engage in other activities by using techniques familiar to those skilled in the art, for example, the display screen of the electronic computing device enters a "power saving" mode, and the backlight of the display screen is automatically turned off, and the display screen is automatically turned off when the user is not using the keyboard. Or after the mouse input exceeds a preset time, it is used to estimate the time the user actually uses the e-book. If its actual time is insignificant, then the e-book should not be added to the relevant project.

Furthermore, the program can create "subject" groups, and each group contains all the e-books belonging to the same subject, for example, "English", "Geography", or "Biology", for easy use When a user opens an e-book belonging to a certain subject, the program can automatically display icons representing all other e-books of the same subject for the user to click and open the clicked e-book , because users may need to contact other e-books of the same subject at the same time. Furthermore, the program can establish respective priority levels for different e-books of the same subject based on statistics of the user's past activities, such as the frequency with which an e-book is opened, and sort the e-books according to the priority levels of these e-books. Display them to the user.

When a user opens multiple e-books on an electronic computing device to study, and when he encounters a difficult problem, he can find an answer to the difficult problem by inputting the difficult problem with the input device of the electronic computing device, which can be a keyboard or the mouse used to select a group of text from an electronic book, which is then sent over the World Wide Web to an electronic forum or similar system. If the input problem itself or a part thereof is from an electronic book, the computer device will automatically the subject of the electronic book, which is obtained by the above-mentioned program through the above-mentioned method, and the identity of the electronic book, such as the name, and and the subtopic where the input problem itself or a part of the input problem comes from, the subtitle, and the input problem are sent to the electronic forum. Alternatively, the electronic computing device may transmit to the electronic forum the subject and title of the electronic book being opened and/or the content of which is being displayed on the display screen, together with the input problem.

It is worth noting that this puzzle is defined by the input puzzle and the information related to the e-books.

The electronic forum will use all the information it receives, including information related to e-books, to search its database containing the answers to all past problems to obtain a predetermined limit of the closest past problems and their corresponding The answer is given to the user, and the searched result is sent to the electronic computing device to be displayed to the user.

Specifically, the electronic forum will first search its database of past problems for past problems that are identical to the input problem, and if any, will provide the user with answers corresponding to those same past problems. Further, it will also conduct a "keyword search". In detail, it removes commonly used words, such as "a", "the", and "is", from the input puzzle to obtain the key words in it, and then uses those keywords to search the database of its past puzzles , to obtain a predetermined limit of closest past problems, and provide the user with answers corresponding to them.

If there is a correct answer, the user can click on it to indicate that it is the correct answer, and the electronic forum's database will be updated accordingly to increase the priority of responding to the problem with that answer. On the other hand, if none of the answers are correct, the electronic forum can post the puzzle waiting for others to enter a correct answer, and then update its database accordingly. The electronic forum may publish the input problem only to those who connect to the electronic forum through the World Wide Web with an electronic computing device, and the user who also opened the same electronic book as the input problem, or opened a different electronic book but It belongs to the same subject as the electronic book of the user who entered the problem.

Alternatively, the electronic forum could be a computer-based system that, after receiving all the information, including those about the e-book, e.g., subject, title, subtopic, identity, as described above, would first only Submitting the input problem to a search engine, such as Google, and forwarding the search results from the search engine to the user's electronic computing device for display to the user. If there are one or more correct answers among the search results, the user clicks to indicate which are the correct answers. If so, the electronic forum can gradually build up a database of answers to different problems.

Moreover, as can be seen above, in the database built in this way, a problem is actually defined by a set of data, that is, the input problem, and those data related to e-books, such as subjects, Names, subtopics, and identities, as mentioned above, must be submitted to search engines and may only have input problems. Moreover, the answers corresponding to different puzzles are stored in individual different storage locations, and therefore, the electronic forum will obtain the answers to the puzzles defined by the above-mentioned set of data from the storage locations corresponding to the puzzles. Extracted answers. It is worth noting that the e-forum can also provide answers from other sources, such as the same input problem, but it is related to a different e-book, but displayed to the user with a lower priority.

When using a search engine, the electronic forum will perform a search based on some search words that may be obtained from input problems, and will generate and provide a number of search result items, and each search result item includes information related to the Each search result item has the paragraphs, phrases, and subsections extracted from the original text of the relevant web page, and it should contain the search word for users to decide whether to click on the hyperlink of the search result item to read the content of those items The original text of the web page of the extracted paragraphs, phrases, and small clauses.

When the user clicks on the provided search result items and the number of clicked search result items reaches a certain preset limit, for example, 5, the program of the present invention will re-establish the priority level of the search result items based on the number of clicked Search result item. It will do this by first removing some commonly used words, such as "the", "a", "and", "are", etc., from paragraphs, phrases, subsections of the above clicked search result items removed, and then it generates new search words from those extracted paragraphs, phrases, and small clauses after cleaning. Those words that appear most frequently in the extracted paragraphs, phrases, and small clauses of the clicked search result items will become new search words.

Then, the program will use the original search word, together with the newly generated search word, to re-establish a new priority level for the search result items provided to the user. It is worth noting that the new priority level will be based on the original full content of the web page associated with the search result item, that is to say, the more search words its content contains, original or generated by the program, the more is given a higher priority. However, it is also possible to use the new search word to determine the new priority level of the search item in the search result, based on whether the extracted paragraph, phrase, or small article appears in the search result item based on the new search word.

On the other hand, those search result items that were shown to the user but were not clicked, or those that were originally given a higher priority in the search results and therefore are considered more important than another clicked item , are arranged in a more prominent position (for example, in a higher position on a display screen) to provide items to the user, but are not clicked, their extracted paragraphs, phrases, subsections can be used for Generate "shouldn't search words" in a same manner as above for generating new search words. Any search result item containing those "shouldn't search words" will be given a lower priority.

The newly generated priority level can be used to rearrange from high to low, the position of the search result items provided to the user, and the higher priority level items will be arranged at a higher position, or can be used to rank the web pages Content is pre-fetched from the network to the user's electronic computing device, and those web pages corresponding to search result items with higher priority levels are pre-fetched earlier.

Another possibility is that all past input puzzles may be stored in a first repository, along with corresponding "answer indications" indicating that a second repository stores the corresponding answer to the input puzzle and its associated For example, the information of the e-book mentioned above, such as subject, e-book identity, subtopic, subtitle, a storage location, please refer to the accompanying drawing 2 for details. And, if based on the content of an input problem, a keyword search as mentioned above is performed in the first repository, and a possibly related past input problem is found, then the electronic forum will use its corresponding "answer indication", To extract the corresponding answers and related e-book information from the second repository, for example, subject, e-book identity, subtopic, subtitle. The electronic forum then gives the answer a priority level based on the relevance of the past input puzzle's e-book material to the input puzzle's e-book material, or a higher priority if they are related to the same e-book. Higher priority, lower priority if only belonging to the same discipline, and so on. And, the data of the electronic book connected with the answer of the past input problem will not be provided to the user or the user's electronic computing device, only the answer will be provided.

It is worth noting that if different input puzzles have the same text content, but come from different e-books, and belong to different disciplines, then the answers generated from the database can be completely different, because even because of the exact same text The search results generated from the search engine are exactly the same, but users who read different e-books in different subjects are likely to be interested in different search result items within the same search result, and click on the correct answer that belongs to their selection, thereby , causing the database to give a higher priority to the answer as its difficult problem.

It is worth noting that the promotion of the priority level may depend on the education level and age of the user, because users with higher education level and age may choose better answers. Similar personal data can be obtained when users purchase e-books and download e-books from the World Wide Web or similar means. The electronic forum can keep a record of the serial number of the purchased electronic book and the education level and age of the purchaser, and the above-mentioned electronic book data related to the input problem include the serial number of the electronic book, and further, the electronic forum will use this serial number to start from Its records look for its buyer's information, so as to know the education level and age of the user who entered the problem and selected the correct answer, because the user and the buyer should be the same person.

On the other hand, if the answer is provided by another user who stores some e-books on an Internet computer and connects to an electronic forum, the priority of the answer will also depend on the education level and age of the other user, and He should also be the purchaser of those e-books, and the e-forum records have information on his education level and age.

In the above text, the word e-book is used to refer to those books that exist in digital form. It should be noted here that this term is often used by those skilled in the art to refer to some books equipped with electronic paper (EINK company's special book). technology) portable device for displaying a book in digital form. Hereinafter, those portable devices will be referred to as e-book devices.

In one embodiment, the electronic computing device may include a conventional desktop computer and an e-book device, both of which allow the user to open multiple e-books at the same time.

In this case, the user may be reading an e-book A on the e-book device X while simultaneously reading e-book B on the computer Y for cross-referencing, or the like. It should be noted that e-book A or e-book B may be other types of files such as web pages.

for convenience The user writes a summary or note or similar for e-book A and e-book B on computer Y, the above program will automatically open another same copy of e-book A on computer Y, which is e-book A', Synchronize e-book A with e-book A', so that when a user reads a certain page of e-book A, and wants to copy a part of it to the abstract or notes, he can easily use computer Y to be Open eBook A' to complete the job.

In detail, the program includes two subroutines that are respectively executed on the e-book device X and the computer Y, so as to perform their respective functions described below on the e-book device X and the computer Y, among which many functions of the program will require the The communication between the two subroutines can be established between the e-book device X and the computer Y through a communication connection, such as wireless transmission system (WIFI) or Bluetooth. This program will cause e-book A' to be in a "minimum" state, so that the user can read e-book B without interference. And if the user opens a new page of e-book A, then the program will automatically open e-book A' to the same page, or the user selects a group of characters in e-book A with the mouse, then in the e-book of computer Y The corresponding text of book A' is also automatically selected, and can be copied or translated, etc. In this way, on the one hand, the user can use the e-book device X to read the e-book A to enjoy the benefits of high-quality e-paper technology, and he can transfer to use the computer Y to perform any operations on the e-book A', such as Searching for a phrase, using an electronic dictionary for translation, etc., the situation is as if the user is using computer Y to read e-book A', and all he needs to do is click on a button on the display screen of computer Y that represents e-book A ' icon to maximize it so that eBook A' expands to the full screen of the display.

And similarly, if the user opens the electronic book A' of the computer Y to a certain page, the program will automatically cause the electronic book A of the electronic book device X to be opened to the same page.

It is worth noting that if the user touches any part of the "touch screen" or any button of the e-book device, regardless of whether it results in any operation of the e-book device, for example, touching a position on the "touch screen" that happens to be the cursor position, and therefore does not cause any change in the cursor position. The program will consider that the user has returned to use e-book device X to read e-book A, and automatically restore e-book A' to the "minimum" state (that is, The content of e-book A' is not displayed on the display screen) and causes computer Y's e-book B to return to the "maximum" state (that is, the content of e-book is displayed on the display screen).

In a further embodiment, the e-book device may include a homework function to facilitate a student to complete homework assigned by their teacher. This homework function will record the input method, such as typing, handwriting recognition (if the e-book device can accept and recognize the image generated by the stylus or the user's finger moving on the touch screen), copied from the reference document and the name of the reference document (or, if the reference document is a web page, the web address of the web page); the time used to enter the data (e.g., time started, time completed, total working time), electronic calculator used for input The identity of the student is then stored in a private record in the homework file, which cannot be altered by the student. The so-called unalterable means that the user cannot change the content of the secret record, except to make the electronic book device delete it, and the user firstly deletes the data entered by it. The secret record may be generated by encrypting the data.

In general, a homework assignment may contain a number of different parts, each of which is entered in different ways and at different times, and for each part, there will be a corresponding individual Secret sub-records to store the method of entry, the name of the reference file, the time of entry, and the identity of the electronic calculator being used.

Referring to Fig. 3, it is an exemplary "homework A" expressed in a pictorial manner, which contains the words "I am a boy" (101a) and "I like football" (101b), which will be displayed in the e-book On the display screen of the device, when the user opens the "Homework A" file, the secret record accompanying the text "I am a boy" (101a) containing items 102a, 103-105, 106a will not be displayed on the display. As shown in Figure 3, the input of the text "I am a boy" (101a) and "I like football" (101b) is to complete (102a) with the keyboard and copy (102b) from the reference file B respectively, by using electronic Book Installation A (item106aand106b), but on different dates.

The contents of a homework file, compiled by a student, can be copied in whole or in part into different homework assignments and submitted to teachers, or copied into notes or summaries for personal study , and the secret record, or sub-record, related to the copied part will be copied to the corresponding secret record of the different target homework or notes or abstracts. Conversely, notes or abstracts for personal study can be copied into a homework assignment in the same format.

When the student completes the homework, it is submitted to the teacher. A teacher can tell from a secret record whether a student is doing his job properly, or copying another student's homework file, based on the method, time and identity of the electronic calculator used in his record. (Different electronic calculators can be identified by their microprocessor, operating system version, serial number, display card type, liquid crystal display, hard disk storage capacity, random memory storage space, and the like), because even The content of electronic homework from different students may vary only slightly, but the information in the records should be different if each person is doing his homework independently. This judging work can be performed by a computer, by comparing the homework records of different students, automatically and warning the teacher if plagiarism is found.

Moreover, if a homework file is displayed on an e-book device for the teacher's review, the e-book device will color different parts of the homework submitted by the students using different input methods, or in different colors. Different background colors are displayed, for example, those copied from reference documents are displayed in red, while those typed in green are displayed for easy identification.

In a further embodiment, it provides a history program, running on an electronic computing device (for example, a computer or electronic book device), to record the user's typing or handwriting recognition input, but does not include copying due to being The copied content is least likely to be generated by the user himself, in a secret history file in the user's memory, eg, USB memory. This can be accomplished using techniques familiar to those of ordinary skill in the art, such as monitoring signals from a keyboard or touch screen.

For an input shorter than a preset length, say, three words or ten symbols, it can be ignored, otherwise, it will be included with other data, including the method of input, time and electronic calculator. Identity, stored in secret historical files. Like the aforementioned secret record, this secret historical file cannot be changed or encrypted by the user.

In this way, all meaningful input from users will be preserved in the history file, whether it is submitted to e-education/learning forums, discussed among peers, or input to homework files.

Furthermore, the functions of the history program include displaying the stored user input on the display screen of the electronic computing device, in their chronological order, for the user to view, and if he wants, he can copy any input, part Or all, to a homework file belonging to him, and the history program will automatically generate a corresponding secret record in the homework file as a proof that the user has done his homework. Or, the historian, upon receiving a command from a user, scans a homework file to see if there is any partial input that may have been copied from a source unknown to the historian, and whose content is different from that of the historian The file stores some of the same input, if any, then the history program will generate a secret record in the homework file for the same input in the homework file by copying the input in the history file The input method, time and identity of the electronic calculator used to find the corresponding input.

This saves users from needlessly retyping text they have already entered.

It should be noted that the above embodiments are given by way of example only, and it is obvious to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications can be made without departing from the idea of the present invention.

As mentioned above, "using techniques familiar to those of ordinary skill in the art ... monitor signals from the keyboard or touch screen" to know whether the content of a homework file is entered by the user or copied From others, but to achieve this purpose, it is of course also possible to use other techniques familiar to those of ordinary skill.

And according to another embodiment of the present invention, it is an apparatus, which includes: a device for causing a first file to enter an active state, so that its data can be used by the user; a device , used to monitor the user's activities when using the first file, to automatically generate secret information to indicate to the user that the method for inputting a piece of information into a second file is obtained from the first file A file is copied, if said copying is detected; a device for copying a portion of said secret data corresponding to a portion of said second file, to a In a secret file of the third file, when the part in the second file is copied to the third file.

Claims (12)

1. the method for checking act of plagiarism, performed by a kind of electronic computer, by supervising the activity of a described electronic computer of user Word message input, thus producing a kind of information in source about described Word message, described source information is for illustrating that described Word message is to be inputted voluntarily by described user, rather than electronically replicate from elsewhere and obtain, it is characterised in that, comprise the following steps:

Store described Word message and described source information to a kind of record, in this first record；

Thereafter, archives look for described Word message, and if find, described source information is copied to the second record being associated with described archives, in order to making the bright of the source of described found Word message from the first described record；

Wherein, described first record and the described second record are to store in a secure manner, in order to prevent by described user change its stored described in information.

2. the method being used for as described in claim 1 checking act of plagiarism, wherein said source packet is containing being related to the described user information by the method in archives described for described Word message input.

3. the method being used for as described in claim 1 checking act of plagiarism, the Word message that wherein said source information includes signal described is by input through keyboard or the information inputted by handwriting recognition device.

4. as described in claim 1 method for checking act of plagiarism, wherein said source information include about by described user for described Word message being input to the software of a kind of electronic computing device of described archives or/and the information of hardware.

5. the method being used for as described in claim 1 checking act of plagiarism, wherein said source information includes the information being transfused to the time and date of described archives about described Word message.

6. the method being used for as described in claim 1 checking act of plagiarism, wherein further includes steps of

Described archives are shown on a kind of display device, and described display device can determine to select a kind of mode to show described Word message among multiple different visual effect mode with the described source-information relevant according to described Word message.

7. the equipment checking act of plagiarism, input the activity of a kind of electronic computer by supervising a user Word message with what, thus producing a kind of information in source about described Word message, described source information is for illustrating that described Word message is to be inputted voluntarily by described user, rather than electronically replicate from elsewhere and obtain, it is characterized in that, including:

A kind of device, stores described Word message and described source information to a kind of record with what, in this first record；

A kind of device, looks for described Word message with one archives of what, and if find, described source information is copied to the second record being associated with described archives, in order to make the bright of the source of described found Word message from the first described record；

Wherein, described first record and the described second record are to store in a secure manner, in order to prevent by described user change its stored described in information.

8., as described in claim 7 for checking the equipment of act of plagiarism, wherein said source packet is containing being related to the described user information by the method in archives described for described Word message input.

9., as described in claim 7 for checking the equipment of act of plagiarism, the Word message that wherein said source information includes signal described is by input through keyboard or the information inputted by handwriting recognition device.

10. as described in claim 7 for checking the equipment of act of plagiarism, wherein said source information include about by described user for described Word message being input to the software of a kind of electronic computing device of described archives or/and the information of hardware.

11. as described in claim 7 for checking the equipment of act of plagiarism, wherein said source information includes the information being transfused to the time and date of described archives about described Word message.

12. as described in claim 7 for checking the equipment of act of plagiarism, wherein farther include:

A kind of device, shows described archives with what, and described display device can determine to select a kind of mode to show described Word message among multiple different visual effect mode with the described source-information relevant according to described Word message.