WO2022144914A1

WO2022144914A1 - Online digital textbooks or notes along with teaching and concept videos to explain the content in the session

Info

Publication number: WO2022144914A1
Application number: PCT/IN2021/051003
Authority: WO
Inventors: Sarath Kakumanu KAKUMANU
Original assignee: Kakumanu Sarath Kakumanu
Priority date: 2021-01-02
Filing date: 2021-10-22
Publication date: 2022-07-07

Abstract

A system, method and computer program product thereof, for viewing multiple kinds of teaching or concept videos in each and every session of subject which help users (students/faculty/parents) especially students to get detailed knowledge regarding the particular part of session in the subject within the online digital textbook or lecture notes in education platform. Moreover, the teaching or concept video can be added in any part of the session in the subject as per the complexity of subject. The teaching or concept videos are the few minute's videos (vary between 2 to 15 minutes) embedded in the online digital textbook itself. Providing a sophisticated way of learning by viewing concept or teaching videos in the online advanced digital textbook /lecture notes application gives users (students) the utmost convenience to learn.

Description

ONLINE DIGITAL TEXTBOOKS OR NOTES ALONG WITH TEACHING AND CONCEPT VIDEOS TO EXPLAIN THE CONTENT IN THE SESSION

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention relates to the field of electronic digital textbook/digital document/lecture notes, in general, more particularly to a system and method of viewing multiple teaching and concept videos relevant to a session or to a part of a teaching session for users of a digital textbook or lecture notes in a digital education platform.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

In today’s education world, teachers are finding it difficult to make the students leam and understand thoroughly all the subjects from the textbook or study notes. A complex mathematical equation or chemical formula requires lots of supporting materials in the form of videos, images, and relevant material for the students to understand the subject thoroughly. With the improper learning material, it is very difficult for the students to grasp the subject matter.

Modem Information Technology has dramatically improved the way the students are taught in the last decade. Recent developments in the education system through the internet are advancing the digital revolution by making it possible to store and view the printed textbook in a digital format on a personal computer, tablet computers, mobile phones, or any other communication devices. As a result, the digitized educational books are developed to be used in online mode with internet facility or offline mode. The digital/electronic textbooks and lecture notes are increasingly getting prominence across the globe.

In the present scenario, the digital textbooks and lecture notes are available in PDF format on the internet. The concept videos on various topics are available in Khan Academy and similar websites or on YouTube and not in the digital textbook. Lecture notes are available in e- learning software like Moodle, Kotobee, Google Classroom, Microsoft One Note Class Notebook, Canvas Blackboard, etc. Teaching and Concept videos are also made by a number of educational teaching video providers like Byju, Learn Next, Pebbles, etc. The students do not have the teaching and concept videos in PDF textbooks or digital textbooks. So, the students have to do research on their own or depend on other separate applications to get the subject related teaching or concept videos to understand or leam about the subject. The current process is very time-consuming. Moreover, the students don’t have enough expertise in picking the right videos to learn.

On the other hand, teachers are always loaded with lots of work, and they do not have much time to teach thoroughly in the class. The quality of teaching is not up to the mark by most of the teachers and sometimes the teachers are unable to find time to teach properly and explain the concept to the students. To overcome this problem of teaching properly to the student a number of teaching videos are now available.

In the existing prior art techniques, education textbooks are in the PDF format which has no videos related to the text content of the particular session in the subject. None of the teaching and concept videos are embedded in between the session or end of the session in the digital textbook.

In the existing prior art techniques, generally, users learn through online videos via other video servicing platforms like YouTube or their own private channels. Hence the users are in the situation to view the videos separately and learn the subject text separately. And also, the length of the video content is more. Most of the students do not have the patience for watching the teaching videos for 30 to 40 minutes in one stretch. This leads to students not paying proper attention to the teaching or concept videos.

Reference has been made to US20010031456A1, which discloses the online education system with different types of learning methods, in that visual learning style has limited features and is mostly dependent on the other site videos for teaching. Further reference has been made to US20110020781 Al which teaches online interactive sessions for learning which has different features with the limitations in learning more through videos. The above discussed are related to the online education and learning system with less user-friendly options.

Learning through the videos in the digital textbook or lecture notes increases the student’s interest in learning the subjects and helps for better learning. Video not only helps the students to learn, but it also supports the faculties to know more about the new content. Learning through videos give more flexibility. Educational teaching video is as good as an instructor, tutor, faculties (teachers, lecturers, and professors) in communicating the principles, procedures, facts, explaining the contents in the subjects, clarifying the doubts or demonstrating procedures to contribute in proficiency learning where a student, faculty, parents can view complex, clinical procedures, mathematical or mechanical procedures as many times as they need till their query, doubts are solved. It enables the students to learn without attending a physical class and learn by a virtual class from the online digital textbook or lecture notes.

There is a need exist to develop the digital textbook embedded with the concept and teaching videos, with the option to add the videos wherever in between the session or end of the session in the digital textbook. It gives the flexibility to the content makers to add a number of animated and concept videos relevant to the session in the advanced digital textbook.

There is a need exist to solve the difficulty of the students to avail the choice of getting lots of information in the form of short-term videos in a single click without going away from the digital/electronic textbooks and lecture notes. It helps the student to read the digital textbook or lecture notes and view immediately the relevant concept or teaching videos from the digital textbook or lecture notes. It enables the students to get more detailed knowledge regarding the particular part of the session by viewing the related teaching and concept videos and continue to the next part of the text content in the digital textbook.

The present invention proposes a user-friendly solution to use the interactive digital textbook embedded with the concept and teaching videos in suitable places for each and every session. The main objective is to have a short-term concept and teaching videos for every session of the digital textbook or lecture notes instead of viewing for a 30 to 40 minutes long video. So, the teaching videos of about 30 to 40 minutes are split into several smaller videos varying between 2 to 15 minutes and embedded into the text content at the relevant part of the session for the students to avoid getting bored or distracted watching a long teaching video. Here the digital textbook is divided into three or more parts and the multiple concepts or teaching videos are embedded at various parts of the digital textbook or lecture notes. It helps the student to understand the session easily and get more detailed knowledge regarding the particular topic in the specific session of the textbook with the help of concept and teaching video by dividing the textbook into three or more parts as per the session of a subject.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The following summary is provided to facilitate an understanding of some of the innovative features unique to the disclosed embodiment and is not intended to be a full description. Users are in need of a better way to learn. One such way is to learn through an interactive digital textbook with multiple teaching or concept videos. Learning of subject through an interactive digital textbook with multiple teaching or concept videos which are the smaller videos varying between 2 to 15 minutes, embedded into the textbook or lecture notes content at the relevant part of the session are done with precise system and method without any disruption.

An object of a disclosed embodiment is to overcome the drawbacks of the existing prior art techniques by providing a user-friendly mechanism of addressing the challenges faced by the users while reading the digital textbook or lecture notes and also while viewing concept videos and teaching videos related to the particular session or chapter in the textbook or lecture notes.

An object of a disclosed embodiment is to provide for the content creators to add multiple types of videos related to the text content in the advanced digital/electronic textbooks and lecture notes.

An object of a disclosed embodiment is to provide an opportunity for the students, teachers or parents to access the small video content (teaching or concept video of 2 to 15 minutes) for various part of the session in the advanced digital/electronic textbooks and lecture notes and request for clarification from the (teacher or lecture) teaching faculty member, for the particular part of the textbook or lecture notes.

An object of a disclosed embodiment is to provide a platform from which the creator of the digital textbook or lecture notes to add concept and teaching videos as per the teacher’s requirement or that of the advanced textbook creator.

One more object of a disclosed embodiment is to provide an option for the teachers and the creator of the advanced digital/electronic textbook and lecture notes to provide concept and teaching videos in the required place (3 or 4 parts) of the session for students to request for clarification on that particular part of the session.

Another object of a disclosed embodiment allows the teachers and creator of advanced digital/electronic textbook or lecture notes to upload the specific appropriate concept and teaching videos at the appropriate part of the session or chapter in the advanced digital/electronic textbooks and lecture notes. Yet another object of a disclosed embodiment is to provide a platform that allow the content creators to deliver the advanced digital electronic textbook or lecture notes through their customized hardware - that is the purpose-built digital tablet, laptop computer, desktop computer, mobile smartphones and the like.

An aspect of the present invention is a method for displaying a virtually collaborated, digital textbook or document or lecture notes with multiple concept and teaching videos, said method comprising the steps of storing the digital document having a plurality of sessions of the content with multiple concept and teaching videos; receiving a user input for displaying multiple concept and teaching videos regarding the specified session of the content; and displaying the specified teaching or concept video on a display of a user device. Thus, a specified teaching or concept video for the particular part of the session of the content is displayed on the display of the user device, according to the user input in the student digital textbook content or digital lecture notes.

Another aspect of the present invention is a virtually collaborated, multi-layered digital document with multiple concept and teaching videos display system, comprising at least one user device communicably coupled to an application server and a file server, said system being configured to: store, the digital document having a plurality of sessions of the content with multiple concept and teaching videos; receive, a user input for displaying multiple concept and teaching videos regarding the specified session of the content; and display on a display of a user device, the specified concept and teaching videos for the particular session of the content, as per the user selection.

Other aspects, advantages, and salient features of the invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art from the following detailed description, which, taken in conjunction with the annexed drawings, discloses exemplary embodiments of the invention.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The above and other aspects, features and advantages of the embodiments of the present disclosure will be more apparent in the following description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. FIG.l illustrates a graphical representation of student view of the advanced online digital/electronic textbook or lecture notes with the option to view the concept and teaching videos, in between the sessions according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG.2 illustrates a graphical representation of student view of the advanced online digital/electronic textbook or lecture notes with teaching video showing teaching video, Audio-Visual contents, Images, Text, etc, according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG.3 illustrates a graphical representation of student view of the advanced online digital/electronic textbook or lecture notes showing the teaching video in picture in picture format, according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG.4 illustrates a graphical representation of student view of the advanced online digital/electronic textbook and lecture notes with teaching video in full-screen mode showing Audio-Visual contents, Images etc, according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG.5 illustrates a graphical representation of student view of the advanced online digital/electronic textbook or lecture notes with the option to view the concept and teaching videos, in between the sessions according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG.6 illustrates a graphical representation of student view of the advanced online digital/electronic textbook or lecture notes with multiple concept videos showing Audio - Visual contents, Images, etc, according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG.7 illustrates a graphical representation of student view of the advanced online digital/electronic textbook or lecture notes showing the concept video in picture in picture format, according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG.8 illustrates a graphical representation of student view of the advanced online digital/electronic textbook or lecture notes with selected concept video in full-screen mode showing Audio-Visual contents, Images, Text etc, according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Persons skilled in the art will appreciate that elements in the figures are illustrated for simplicity and clarity and may have not been drawn to scale. For example, the dimensions of some of the elements in the figure may be exaggerated relative to other elements to help to improve understanding of various exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure. Throughout the drawings, it should be noted that like reference numbers are used to depict the same or similar elements, features, and structures.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

The particular values and configurations discussed in these non-limiting examples can be varied and are cited merely to illustrate at least one embodiment and are not intended to limit the scope thereof.

The embodiments now will be described more fully hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which illustrative embodiments of the invention are shown. The embodiments disclosed herein can be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein; rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art. As used herein, the term "and/or" includes any and all combinations of one or more of the associated listed items.

The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention. As used herein, the singular forms "a", "an" and "the" are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. It will be further understood that the terms "comprises" and/or "comprising," when used in this specification, specify the presence of stated features, integers, steps, operations, elements, and/or components, but do not preclude the presence or addition of different features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components, and/or groups thereof.

Unless otherwise defined, all terms (including technical and scientific terms) used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. It will be further understood that terms, such as those defined in commonly used dictionaries, should be interpreted as having a meaning that is consistent with their meaning in the context of the relevant art and will not be interpreted in an idealized or overly formal sense unless expressly so defined herein.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, viewing multiple kinds of concept and teaching videos relevant to each and every particular part of the session or chapter of the subject in the digital textbook or lecture notes is disclosed. The idea is to create and view the short-term concept and teaching videos for the students with an interactive option in the digital textbook. It can be viewed by the Students/Faculty/Parents through their mobile as well as other communication devices like Desktop / Laptop Computers, Digital Tablets etc.

In an implementation of a disclosed embodiment is to view the concept and teaching videos of the specific session of the content as per the Students/Faculty/Parents selection. The Students/Faculty/Parents can view the different concept videos or teaching videos and interact with each other to clear the doubts.

The application permits the faculty/content creator to add the concept and teaching videos in the necessary places in between each session and after the session completion for the students to view the concept and teaching videos for reference. The concept and teaching videos are smaller videos seen in between the sessions and embedded in the online digital textbook itself. This way, the student can click and view the concept videos of the content he has read in the online digital textbook or lecture notes.

Referring to FIG 1, an embodiment of the present invention illustrates a graphical representation of the Advanced Online Digital Text Book (100). The display of the advanced online digital textbook/folder (100) includes, the profile picture of the Student/user (110), (120) shows the Class, Section, Subject Name, Unit Number, Unit Name and Session Number, The Unit Detail, (130) clarify option, (140) concept video, (150) the teaching video.

Referring to FIG 2, another embodiment of the present invention illustrates a graphical representation of the Advanced Online Digital Text Book (200). (210) shows the teaching video in side panel. By clicking the teaching video, the teaching video can be viewed in the picture in picture view for a few minutes as per the video timing on the online digital textbook or lecture notes.

Referring to FIG 3, another embodiment of the present invention illustrates a graphical representation of the Advanced Online Digital Text Book (300). (310) shows the teaching video in picture in picture view (semi enlarged view) for a few minutes as per the video timing on the online digital textbook or lecture notes. Referring to FIG 4, another embodiment of the present invention illustrates a graphical representation of the Advanced Online Digital Text Book (400). (410) shows the teaching video in full- screen mode.

Referring to FIG 5, an embodiment of the present invention illustrates a graphical representation of the Advanced Online Digital Text Book (500). The display of the advanced digital textbook/folder (500) includes, (510) concept video button.

Referring to FIG 6, an embodiment of the present invention illustrates a graphical representation of the Advanced Online Digital Text Book (600). The display of the advanced digital textbook/folder (600) includes, (610) the multiple concept videos.

Referring to FIG 7, another embodiment of the present invention illustrates a graphical representation of the Advanced Online Digital Text Book (700). (710) shows the concept video in picture in picture view (semi enlarged view) for few minutes as per the video timing.

Referring to FIG 8, another embodiment of the present invention illustrates a graphical representation of the Advanced Online Digital Text Book (800). (810) shows the concept video in full- screen mode.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, the concept videos of the particular session may be of animated videos displayed on the display of the user device comprises of text videos, image video, etc.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the method for displaying a virtually collaborated, digital textbook or document or lecture notes with multiple concept and teaching videos, said method comprising the steps of storing the digital document having a plurality of sessions of the content with multiple concept and teaching videos, receiving a user input for displaying multiple concept and teaching videos regarding the specified session of the content and displaying the specified concept and teaching video with user interaction option on a display of a user device. Thus, a specified concept and teaching videos for the particular session of the content are displayed on the display of the user device, according to the user input.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, an improved system of virtually collaborated, multi-layered digital documents with multiple concept and teaching videos is disclosed. The said system is either device-based or device-independent used for school, college, university, tutorials, teaching academics, etc. The system comprises at least one user device communicably coupled to an application server and a file server, said the system is configured to store, the digital document having a plurality of sessions of the content with multiple concept and teaching videos, receive, a user input for displaying multiple concept and teaching videos regarding the specified session of the content and display on a display of a user device, as per the user selection.

Another embodiment of the present invention provides a (non-transitory) computer-readable medium for displaying a virtually collaborated, multi-layered digital textbook/lecture notes (document) with multiple videos, the (non-transitory) computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions comprising the steps of storing the digital document having a plurality of sessions of the content with multiple concept and teaching videos, receiving a user input for displaying multiple concept and teaching videos regarding the specified session of the content and displaying on a display of a user device, the specified concept and teaching videos with user interaction for the particular session of the content in the online digital textbook or lecture notes. Thus, a specified concept and teaching video for the particular session of the content is displayed on the display of the user device, according to the user selection in the online digital textbook or lecture notes.

It will be appreciated that variations of the above-disclosed and other features and functions, or alternatives thereof, may be desirably combined into many other different systems or applications. Also, various presently unforeseen or unanticipated alternatives, modifications, variations or improvements therein may be subsequently made by those skilled in the art which are also intended to be encompassed by the following claims.

Claims

Claims:

1. A method for displaying a virtually collaborated, multi-layered, online digital textbook or document or lecture notes with multiple concept and teaching videos, said method comprising the steps of: storing, an online digital textbook or document or lecture notes having a plurality of sessions of content with multiple concept and teaching videos; receiving, a user input for displaying the online digital textbook or document or lecture notes with multiple concept and teaching videos regarding a specified session of the content; and displaying, the online digital textbook or document or lecture notes with specified concept and teaching videos with user interaction options on a display of a user device, as per the user selection for the particular session of the content.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the online digital textbook or document or lecture notes is embedded with a plurality of concept and teaching videos in each session of the subject, wherein the multiple concept videos vary between 2 to 15 minutes duration, and are provided for every smaller portion of the sessions which explains the concept of the particular part of the session in the online digital textbook or document or lecture notes, wherein the teaching videos varying between 2 to 15 minutes duration and are provided for every smaller portion of the sessions which shows the teaching video of the particular part of the session in the online digital textbook or document or lecture notes.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1 or claim 2, the method further comprises providing an option for the faculty and the creator of the online digital textbook to create, add or change the plurality of concept and teaching videos in the places wherever required for every session of each subject, in the online digital textbook or digital lecture notes.

4. The method as claimed in any one of the claims 1-3, wherein the method further comprises providing multiple short time concept and teaching videos frequently in between the session to teach the user (student) with a teaching video for every particular portion of the particular session or end of the session in the online digital textbook or lecture notes as decided by the teacher or publisher of the textbook.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the user device is in online mode, the method comprises the steps of: receiving, by an application server, the user input for displaying a specified concept and teaching videos of the particular session of the content in the online digital document or textbook or lecture notes; fetching, by the application server, specified concept, and teaching videos content to be displayed in the online digital document, textbook or lecture notes, as received as user input from the user; sending the fetched specified concept and teaching videos content in the online digital document, textbook or lecture notes from the application server to a file server; and displaying, the fetched specified concept and teaching videos content in the online digital document, textbook or lecture notes, on the display of the user device.

6. A virtually collaborated, multi-layered online digital document, textbook or lecture notes with multiple teaching or concept video display system, comprising at least one user device communicably coupled to an application server and a file server, said system being configured to: store, an online digital textbook or document or lecture notes having a plurality of sessions of content with multiple concept and teaching videos; receive, a user input for displaying the online digital textbook or document or lecture notes with multiple concept and teaching videos regarding a specified session of the content; and display, the online digital textbook or document or lecture notes with the specified concept and teaching videos with user interaction options on a display of a user device, as per the user selection for the particular session of the content.

7. The system as claimed in claim 6, wherein the online digital textbook or document or lecture notes is embedded with the plurality of concept and teaching videos in each session of the subject, wherein the multiple concept videos vary between 2 to 15 minutes duration, and are provided for every smaller portion of the sessions which explains the concept of the particular part of the session in the online digital textbook or document or lecture notes, wherein the teaching videos varying between 2 to 15 minutes duration and are provided for every smaller portion of the sessions which shows the teaching video of the particular part of the session in the online digital textbook or document or lecture notes.

8. The system as claimed in claim 6, wherein the system is configured to provide an option for the faculty and the creator of the advanced online digital textbook to create, add or change the plurality of concept and teaching videos in the places wherever required for every session of each subject, in the online digital textbook or digital lecture notes.

9. The system as claimed in claim 6 or claim 7, wherein the system is configured to provide multiple short time concept and teaching videos frequently in between the session to teach the user (student) with a teaching video for every particular portion of the particular session or end of the session in the online digital textbook or lecture notes as decided by the teacher or publisher of the textbook.

10. The system as claimed in claim 6, wherein the at least one user device is in online mode, and the system is further configured to: receive, by an application server, the user input for displaying a specified concept and teaching videos of the particular session of the content in the online digital document or textbook or lecture notes; fetch, by the application server, specified concept and teaching videos content to be displayed in the online digital document or textbook or lecture notes, as received as user input from the user; send, the fetched specified concept and teaching videos content in the online digital document or textbook or lecture notes from the application server to a file server; and display, the fetched specified concept and teaching videos content in the online digital document or textbook or lecture notes, on the display of the user device.

11. A computer program product comprising instructions which, when executed by at least one processor, causes the processor to carry out the instructions to perform a method for displaying a virtually collaborated advanced online, multi-layered advanced digital textbook or digital document or lecture notes having a plurality of teachers, a plurality of students, a plurality of parents the method comprising the steps of: storing, an online digital textbook or document or lecture notes having a plurality of sessions of content with multiple concept and teaching videos; receiving, a user input for displaying the online digital textbook or document or lecture notes with multiple concept and teaching videos regarding the specified session of the content; and displaying, the online digital textbook or document or lecture notes with the specified concept and teaching videos with user interaction options on a display of a user device, as per the user selection for the particular session of the content, wherein the multiple concept videos vary between 2 to 15 minutes duration, and are provided for every smaller portion of the sessions which explains the concept of the particular part of the session in the online digital document or textbook or lecture notes, wherein the teaching videos vary between 2 to 15 minutes duration, and are provided for every smaller portion of the sessions which shows the teaching video of the particular part of the session in the online digital textbook or document or lecture notes, providing an option for the faculty and the creator of the online advanced digital textbook to create, add or change the plurality of concept and teaching videos in the places wherever required for every session of each subject, in the digital textbook or document or digital lecture notes, providing multiple short time concept and teaching videos frequently in between the session to teach the user(student) with a teaching video for every particular portion of the particular session or end of the session in the online digital textbook or lecture notes as decided by the teacher or publisher of the textbook, wherein when the user device is in online mode, the method comprises the steps of: receiving, by an application server, the user input for displaying a specified concept and teaching videos of the particular session of the content in the online digital textbook or document or lecture notes; fetching, by the application server, specified concept, and teaching videos content to be displayed in the online digital textbook or document or lecture notes, as received as user input from the user; sending the fetched specified concept and teaching videos content in the online digital textbook or document or lecture notes from the application server to a file server; and displaying, the fetched specified concept and teaching videos content in the online digital textbook or document or lecture notes, on the display of the user device.