52 results about "Professional development" patented technology

A system and method for providing a rewards program for a plurality of rewards accounts is disclosed that promote the adoption, retention, and the desirable usage of credit cards, prepaid cards, debit cards, and other transactional products and that induce the development and improvement of consumer behavior through education and rewards. Embodiments of the invention provide a rewards program by associating a financial product with a rewards account of the plurality of rewards accounts and detecting rewardable actions associated with the financial product. Any type of actions may be deemed rewardable actions including the participation in educational programs related to features of the financial product, financial responsibility, health, professional development and others. For completing rewardable actions, participants may be rewarded with points that they may then use to enter into sweepstakes in order to win prizes.

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for integrating physical fitness instruction using a specialized accountability approach and integrating personal growth and professional development in a collaborative accountable environment. The apparatus, in one embodiment, is configured to develop a personalized physical fitness plan from information received from one or more participants in a selected group. The apparatus may be connected to a computer network in order to distribute information, including physical fitness instruction, to participants. In one embodiment, information for personal growth and professional development is integrated with the physical fitness instruction. Alternatively or in addition, information for personal growth and professional development may be provided separately and may be tailored to a participant, group, or company.

A computer implemented method and system for tracking and managing progress of performance goals developed by one or more institutions and district administrations at multiple levels is provided. A progress management platform (PMP) accessible via a network, receives goal information and goal criteria at one or more levels and generates one or more modifiable performance goals at those levels. The PMP tracks progress of the generated modifiable performance goals (GMPGs) by collecting and monitoring observations received on execution of the GMPGs by internal entities at one or more levels, self reviews and peer reviews received from the internal entities at one or more levels, feedback received from external entities, etc. The PMP generates one or more progress reports at one or more levels based on the tracked progress of the GMPGs to quantify results of the execution of the GMPGs for facilitating accountability, professional development, and development of improvement programs.

The invention discloses an outcomes-based course teaching system for teacher teaching. According to the system, a teaching demand of a teacher and data characteristics of teaching information are focused and relevant information of a student and relevant information of a course are taken as data base; then, module development is performed according to time streams before a class, in the class andafter the class, and through real-time third-party information view and multiple interactive communication modes, the sharing of teaching data and the real-time feedback of the information are implemented; and at last, functional decomposition on the system may be implemented according to a principle of completely separating data information change and display, and a very detailed unit division design is performed on modules in each portion. The system has direct assistant and supporting effects to the teacher teaching, can automatically generate a teacher professional development archive anda teacher performance archive, can help the teacher to complete teaching reflection, is convenient to view and evaluate a teaching capacity of the teacher and is convenient for the teacher to use in school teacher teaching performance evaluation.

A professional development registry system comprising a processor and a storage medium operably connected to the processor, wherein the storage medium is capable of receiving and storing data representative of a first career ladder, data representative of at least one participant, data representative of at least one scholarship request, and data representative of at least one training event, and wherein the processor is operable to process said data and generate at least one report comprising at least part of said data.

A web-based full-cycle 360 degree (manager, peer and employee feedback) employee performance evaluation and management system and method based on organization-defined standards of behavior, job specific criteria, self review, peer feedback, and dotted line supervisor input. Standardizes evaluations for shared efforts and matrix type management situations. Evaluations include all aspects of the evaluated requirements in the employee assessment such as: job knowledge, accomplishment of objectives, quality of work, productivity, initiative and creativity, interpersonal relationships, supervisory skills, dependability and professional contribution. Manages delivery and tracking of employee performance and identifies educational and professional development needs. Provides a comprehensive record of skills and abilities that could benefit the organization and might otherwise not be noticed or recognized. Assembles data to assist with planning personnel moves and placements that will best utilize each employee's demonstrated capabilities. Customizable template-based evaluation layouts facilitate review entry forms and final printed format that matches an organization's standards of presentation. Manages performance consistency with trend analysis and out-of-bound exception reporting. Evaluates organizational performance on measured standards of excellence and environment. Delivers automated email reminders to staff and managers about pending evaluations. Provides for summary record of compliance for accreditation and certification agencies.

Systems and methods for providing web-enabled professional development training to participants in diverse industries to thereby improve the participant's knowledge, skills, and proficiency. Professional development training is provided over the Internet. Following the training, at least one participant is provided with a first question set regarding the training. The participant is then allowed to implement concepts and principles according to the training previously received. After a predetermined period of time elapses, additional follow-up questions are generated based on the participant's responses to the first question set and the participant's implementation of training principles and concepts. The follow-up questions may then be presented to the participant via the Internet. In a further implementation, the follow-up questions may be presented to a supervisor of the participant. In some implementations, the Internet may be utilized to assess the participants performance prior to and after receiving training.

The invention provides a heterogeneous database access method. According to the JDBC technology, the ODBC technology, the ADO technology and the BDE technology, the problems existing in the data access cross-platform characteristic, the data access cross-development-language characteristic and the data access cross-development-environment characteristic are solved, data access efficiency is fully considered, access modes of different data types and large-capacity data types are achieved through a specific method, developers of an application layer abandon the complex SQL, database storage process development work focuses on achievement of application service logic, and the database developers can focus on the characteristics of different database servers, organize service data formats and improve data access efficiency. For the developers, a mature system structure model and professional development work division are adopted, and application system development reliability can be improved.

A growth cycle includes frequent observations and ongoing communication in a professional growth cycle. The professional growth cycle includes a walk-though, feedback, and professional reflection and implementation / application. A computer network system for conducting observations of individual professionals and administering observation results includes an observation software module to generate from a predetermined list of learners a listing of at least one learner for a scheduled observation event by a predetermined observer. Predetermined options are selectable by the observer related to the observation event. A scheduling module is in data communication with a calendar module. The scheduling module is configured to enter data and extract data associated with scheduled observation events from the calendar module. An observation criteria module is configured to generate observation criteria for guiding the observer in conducting the observation event.

The invention provides a synchronous mutual-assistance classroom teaching system comprisi a main classroom unit and two remote classroom units. The main classroom unit arranged in a high-quality recoding and broadcasting teaching room has an interactive terminal. The two remote classroom units are provided with normalized recording and broadcasting systems and are equipped with interactive terminals, high-definition cameras, pickup units, audio processors, all-in-one units, and loudspeakers and the like. The omnidirectional pickup units pick up sounds in all directions and the collected soundsare processed by the audio processors in a high-quality manner. A cloud recoding and broadcasting platform carried out operation by means of network school connection. With interactive teaching and paired assistance, good-quality resource sharing is realized and an objective of education balancing is achieved. Therefore, the children in low-quality schools can share the high-quality education resources. During the process of interactive teaching, main teachers and assisted teachers prepare lessons jointly and teaching reflection and teaching evaluation are carried out, so that the professional development of teachers is realized and the collection of high-quality education resources is realized.

A system and method for professional development for teachers which includes a structured framework for creating and providing online courses, qualification testing, instructional material, and mentoring teacher access, all subject specific to help teachers gain competency in their individualized teaching assignments and by extension help in the recruitment, development and retention of teachers leading to improved student achievement.

The invention discloses an open source project-based internet map application development platform, and relates to the technical fields of internet map services, applications and software research and development. According to the map application development platform, an object-oriented programming design thought is adopted; a GIS professional language is converted into a general internet software development language; 33 map basic classes and 25 spatial analysis interfaces are packaged in an open source-based Openlayers front-end map rendering engine; the packaged classes and interfaces of methods and the like are simple and easy to understand; OGC standard map data and map services are supported; and the platform has a front-end spatial analysis function. The problems of high learning cost, incapability of flexibly accessing standard map services and map data, and the like when non GIS professional development personnel develop internet map applications are solved.

The invention discloses an intelligent teaching analysis system. The system comprises an intelligent pushing part (comprising a knowledge capability analysis module in a course standard, knowledge capability analysis modules of all sub-books and a knowledge system coding module) based on course standard codes and sub-book data; a teaching target and teaching strategy selection suggestion part (including a teaching content classification module and a teaching target and teaching strategy suggestion module); and an education evaluation part (including pushing a corresponding teaching resource module according to the knowledge point and pushing a corresponding learning content module according to the feedback of the student) supported by the big data technology and the artificial intelligencetechnology. The system can help teachers to complete the teaching process from teaching design, teaching activity implementation to teaching evaluation, and promotes the personalized development of students. The system can help education managers to carry out informatization management and teaching performance evaluation, promote professional development of teachers, and improve education performance of managed schools or regions.

The invention relates to a lesson preparation laptop for a teacher, which is characterized in that the desktop of the laptop for a teacher includes daily work, lesson preparation before class, lesson teaching, guidance after class, specialty file and interaction window, wherein the daily work comprises network office, online lesson preparation, interaction class, guidance after class and personal studio; the lesson preparation before class comprises network office, online lesson preparation, interaction class, guidance after class and personal studio; the lesson teaching comprises lesson resources, teaching design, teaching guidance, class practice, subject experiment and homework; the guidance after class comprises lesson resources, teaching design, teaching guidance, class practice, subject experiment and homework; the specialty file comprises a platform data management system and a speciality development query system; and the interaction window comprises personal space, basic information, teaching information, learning information, study information and guidance information. The invention realizes multi-requirement diversified lesson preparation schemes by electronic networking means.

The invention provides an embedded BIM teaching system which comprises a cloud end, a teacher end and a student end. The instructor side is used to load the preset BIM teaching course list, Select theBIM subcourse name from the list of BIM tutorials, setting the teaching class information of the BIM sub-course name, selecting the BIM sub-course name in the BIM teaching course list, generating a plan list according to the teaching class information of the BIM sub-course name, inputting the scheduling time of all courses in the course directory of the plan list, and obtaining the class plan ofthe corresponding class; The student end transfers out the corresponding class plan according to the class in which the student lives, and transfers the courseware preset in the course to start learning. The system relies on BIM professional training objectives, teaching requirements, personnel training standards and quality evaluation system, combined with the concept of colleges and universitiesin BIM, professional development and construction of the integration of production and teaching, improve the professional setting, teacher training, teaching plan, curriculum development and other work, to help teachers effectively plan teaching courses.

A method of providing a focused range of resources, including content and services, limited by and customized to the functions and interests of a particular concern, as well as the managed infrastructure, including hardware and software, necessary to access and use the resources. The content and services may include productivity, curricular, administrative, assessment, collaboration, and professional development programming. The managed infrastructure is provided to the degree desired, depending upon the concern's needs, including installation, training, and upgrades. Such infrastructure may include communications hubs for connecting one or more concern environments to a regional data center, and reliable, low-cost thin client terminals for accessing the resources maintained at the data center. Security features ensure safe communication and system integrity. Additional services may include both pre-operational and ongoing training and responsiveness to ensure that maximum benefit is realized. Relatedly, technical assistance and 24-hour help lines may also be provided.

The invention discloses an intelligent 3D life data cloud service system, which comprises a full-automatic intelligent 3D modeling interaction module, a 3D lift data cloud system module and a generalizing ZSVRPN virtual peripheral communication module, wherein the full-automatic intelligent 3D modeling interaction module carries out a texture gradient method through multiple groups of pictures to obtain different pieces of point cloud data, and automatically combines the same pieces of point cloud data to generate a 3D model. Objects in reality and a virtual world are interacted, so that the application and the operation of virtual reality are not limited to professional development, all people can utilize a virtual interaction technology to realize functions of sharing and visualizing data through a cloud, the formed applications integrate with markets so as to realize the marketing modes of various industries, educational tools and life modes.

The invention discloses a smart education system for making student immersion. The system comprises a plurality of data acquisition units, a universal integration platform, a database management platform, a resource query platform, an ecological educational administration and teaching management platform and a client terminal, wherein the data acquisition units are used for obtaining education resources from various data sources; the universal integration platform is used for converting the education resources of various types obtained from the data acquisition units into files with a uniformformat; the database management platform is used for storing the education resources converted to the uniform format by the universal integration platform into a database, and encoding the education resources in the database according to a uniform standard; the resource query platform is used for selectively accessing links related to capture targets set by users according to the capture targets so as to obtain required education resources; the ecological educational administration and teaching management platform is used for recording professional development of teachers and personal growth of students and storing the recorded information into the database; and the client terminal is used by users to log in application portals, and is used for obtaining or modifying education resource information in systems according to access authorities.

The invention relates to a home information service terminal and the system based Ethernet thereof. The system includes a network interface module, a noise module and a video module based on a central main processing module. The main model has one home function. The Ethernet interface module is an interface unit of Ethernet data change. The voice module and the video module finish the collection and processing of voice and image data respectively. The invention utilizes the professional development advantage and centralizes on home service field development, with the advantage of powerful function, convenient integration to intelligent subdistrict product and convenient domestic market proposition and application.

The invention discloses a method for comparing teaching achievements of teachers of different subjects by applying an LT score statistics tool. The method for comparing the teaching achievements of the teachers of the different subjects for an examination comprises the following steps of firstly, obtaining student achievement information of the examination; secondly, calculating an average score of each subject in an examination range; thirdly, calculating an average score of the teaching achievements of the teachers of the different subjects; fourthly, performing statistics on an extreme value and a standard deviation of each subject in the examination range; fifthly, calculating corresponding proportionality coefficient and constant by applying tool software; sixthly, calculating LT score values of the teaching achievements of the teachers; and seventhly, sorting the LT score values from big to small, and comparing the teaching achievements of the teachers of the different subjects. By adopting the method, the change situations, on an original basis, of the teaching achievements of the teachers of the different subjects are assessed, so that monitoring and assessment of education and teaching quality are facilitated, self-development of schools and professional development of the teachers are facilitated, school management level and capability are improved, and improvement of the education and teaching quality is facilitated.

A method, computer program product, and computer system for identifying, by a computing device, a user profile of a plurality of user profiles associated with a profession, wherein the user profile may be associated with a user. The user profile may be analyzed. It may be determined that the user is eligible to receive an assessment based upon, at least in part, analyzing the user profile. The assessment may be administered to the user. Answers for the assessment provided by the user may be recorded. A score for the assessment may be generated based upon, at least in part, the answers for the assessment provided by the user. A recommended course of a plurality of courses for the user to receive may be identified based upon, at least in part, the score for the assessment.

The invention discloses a voice skill creation method and device, electronic equipment and a medium, and relates to the technical field of voice skills. According to the specific implementation scheme, an editing interface is displayed in response to a creation request for the voice skills, wherein the editing interface at least comprises a scenario configuration sub-interface; a scenario interactive text configured by a user through the scenario configuration sub-interface is obtained; and the scenario interactive text is used to generate voice interactive verbal tricks, and the voice skillsare created according to the voice interactive verbal tricks. According to the voice skill creation method and device, the creation of the voice skills can be realized without editing code programs, so that a user without a professional development capability can create the voice skills for intelligent equipment, and the creation and maintenance efficiency of the voice skills is improved.

The invention discloses a multi-dimensional course teaching process evaluation system. The system comprises a teaching activity recording module, a knowledge point control evaluation module, an after-class evaluation module and a statistical scoring module. On the basis of an existing teaching evaluation system, multi-dimensional evaluation models for classroom teaching activity real-time recording, student class statistics, teacher teaching statistics, knowledge point control evaluation and the like are added; the teaching quality of teachers is evaluated through multiple dimensions. The evaluation data of the teaching process is more accurate; the teaching level of teachers can be better reflected; a teacher evaluation system which is easy to operate, high in efficiency, easy to supervise and capable of obtaining true data is formed; through the evaluation system, the potential of teachers can be fully mined, the specialty of teachers is brought into play, the professional development and active innovation of teachers are promoted, the original traditional form that teachers are main students and auxiliary students is changed, an autonomous learning community with a social interaction function is formed for art teaching, and learners are helped to carry out personalized learning channels.

A method of training educators to develop environmentally aware lesson plans using a computer-implemented professional development system is provided. The method integrates awareness of environmental issues into general-studies teaching and includes a computer having a data base housing a plurality of environmental-specific instructional materials and materials relating to human behavior and development. The method comprises the steps of: assembling one or more educators; providing access to a computer device to each educator; providing a server connected to the computer device wherein the server includes a data base housing foundational tools and information concerning culture's influence on environmental awareness; in one or more training sessions and by accessing the data base, training the educators about environmental awareness; and instructing the educators to develop at least one environmentally aware lesson plan utilizing the training.

The invention provides a visual programming method. The visual programming method comprises the following steps of providing a general information configuration module, obtaining configuration information, constructing a guide graph and operating. The invention further relates to a visual programming system, a storage medium and electronic equipment. The visual programming method establishes the data relationship among the operation processes by entering the sub-interfaces of the operation processes for editing, constructs the operation guide graph of the hardware operation processes, and completes visual programming of the hardware operation processes. According to the visual programming method, visual programming is achieved while a very professional development engineer is not needed and only a basic computer technology is needed; and not only the requirement for workers is low, but also the working efficiency is greatly improved.

The invention provides an evaluation system and an evaluation method for sustainable development of teachers. The system comprises a teaching performance evaluation module, a teaching research evaluation module, a resource exploitation evaluation module, a continuous education evaluation module, a teacher honor evaluation module and a growth evaluation module which are connected with a current achievement evaluation module. The invention can automatically generate a continuous development evaluation report of each teacher in a convenient and effective manner. The device is based on the quantification management theory, a mathematic model is created, professional development procedural data of the teachers are fully collected, a visual evaluation report is generated, and scientific comparison analysis of professional development conditions of the teachers can be facilitated.

The invention discloses digital heterogeneous forms for the same subject teaching and research platform for gym teachers. Through the internet and the cloud computing, users are centered, according tothe needs of the users to build an organizational structure, a content program and a menu interface suitable for the digital presentation of heterogeneous forms for the same subject teaching and research for the gym teachers, and the interactive technology of Web 2.0 is used for enabling the users to participate in the interaction between people and people, and people and the system. The digitalheterogeneous forms for the same subject teaching and research platform for the gym teachers is advantageous to the heterogeneity of the gym teachers in teaching and research, the richer presentationmethod is displayed to show to the public, a motion platform and the environment are created for communication among teachers, and between teachers and professionals, and the normative and efficient technical supports are provided for teaching and research management, by generating and aggregating topic teaching and research data, course resources with rich, practical, and portable contents are formed; and by pushing the course resources, personalized diagnosis and service for the professional development of teachers can be realized, and a new ecology conducive to the professional growth of the teachers is facilitated to be built.

The invention relates to the technical field of intelligent teaching, and particularly discloses an intelligent teaching evaluation and analysis method, which integrates entities into a convolutional tower to construct a perceptible entity convolutional neural network in combination with the characteristic of coexistence of unstructured texts and structured information of teacher evaluation, after-class homework and experiment reports. And then the entity relationship is combined with the weight to ensure that the final integrated score can reflect the comprehensive performance of the students, the score reliability is high, and teachers can be helped to timely and accurately analyze the behaviors of the students to discover the problems and difficulties of the students so as to perform timely pre-judgment and processing, thereby being helpful for accelerating the teaching progress, reducing the burden of the teachers and improving the teaching efficiency. The individual development of students is promoted; and an education manager can be helped to carry out informatization management and performance evaluation, professional development of teachers is promoted, and teaching quality and school management ability are improved.