Robert S Aughenbaugh

US Patent:

20040091846, May 13, 2004

Filed:

Nov 7, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/290670

Inventors:

Robert Aughenbaugh - Portland OR, US
Bruce Carocci - West Linn OR, US

Assignee:

Via Training, L.L.C.

International Classification:

G09B003/00

US Classification:

434/350000

Abstract:

Apparatus and methodology employable in an e-learning environment which links with a selected e-learning management system to respond to e-learning benchmarks, and other events relating to e-learning activities, by offering buildable student bank accounts of value points which can be redeemed for various incentive awards that are made known and available to a participating student via a virtual store which is configurable freely to show and describe, and to present values of, such awards. Award inventory, award value, and the relationship which exists between made-available awards and particular benchmarked learning activities, or other events, are freely and widely reconfigurable and modifiable in various ways by a host who manages and configures the system and methodology of the invention.

US Patent:

20040043362, Mar 4, 2004

Filed:

Aug 29, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/230600

Inventors:

Robert Aughenbaugh - Portland OR, US
Bruce Carocci - West Linn OR, US

International Classification:

G09B019/00

US Classification:

434/118000

Abstract:

A method, apparatus, and resulting product involving the building, use and specific make-up of an e-learning, e-training, activity. This activity includes a core component template of activity-specific attributes, to which are linked to independently selectable and useable specific training information elements which collectively form the other major component in a completed e-learning activity. The training personality and content of a created activity are freely revisable and re-configurable either through the technique of changing, in some manner, the specific information-training contents in the activity, and/or changing the core make-up of activity attributes in the template of attributes which forms part of the activity.