WO2006109342B1

WO2006109342B1 - Distribution of e-learning courses and services

Info

Publication number: WO2006109342B1
Application number: PCT/IT2006/000241
Authority: WO
Inventors: Fabrizio Serafini
Original assignee: Scuola Di Man S R L; Fabrizio Serafini
Priority date: 2005-04-12
Filing date: 2006-04-11
Publication date: 2007-01-18
Also published as: ITRM20050176A1; WO2006109342A1

Abstract

The technique of authentication through one time unique identifier for the access to e-learning services includes: i- the opening of an account by an organization that distributes the course and the relative subscription and the assignment of the permissions and the access rights to 5 the owner of the copyright. ii- disposition of the course in a storage (3) on a web server (2) of the organization that distributes the course, with the implementation of the object course in a way to associate thereto the owner of the copyright, iii- definition of the courses' catalogue, including for every course the relation 10 author to object course which establishes its copyright. iv- distribution of the course and relative activation of an one time e-key, for each enrolment, that gives the right to have access to the same course; v- real time survey and monitor functions for the owner of the copyright on the remote host, of the activation requests of the enrolment e-keys in addition to the date 15 of distribution and other subsidiary information.

Claims

6 00024119AMENDED CLAIMS received by the International Bureau on 06 October 2006 (06.10.2006)

1. Technique of authentication through one time unique identifier for the indirect distribution of e-learning services, with a real time survey and monitoring system which provides for the:

- opening of an user account by an organization that distributes the e-learning course (9) and relative subscription and assignation of the access rights and read permissions to the owner of the copyright of the course;

- allocation of the e-learning course in a storage area (3) on a web server (2a) of the organization that distributes the course, with implementation of an object course (L.O.) that provides for a specific join with the owner of the copyright of the course;

- definition of the catalogues of the course, that includes for every course, the contingent information like prize, duration, etc., characterized by using only one management tool of enrolment to the e-learning courses, that has a double administrative functionality: a- on one hand, to memorize and record the information (3, 2a) relative to the training development and didactic course of the student and his identifying data for the organization which distributes the course; b- on the other side, - for the owner of the copyright - to operate only on the data identifying of the enrolment to the course - such as, date of subscription, expire date etc. - on which the subscription is based, by the following steps for the statement of the association author/object course that establish the copyright and relative amount due, in connection to the granted licence; i- distribution of the course and relative activation of an one time e-key, for each enrolment, that gives the right to have access to the same course; ii~ in relation to the activation of these e-key (17b), closed loop control (18 a, 18a¹, 18b) enabling real time survey and monitor functions for the owner (4) of the copyright on the remote host (2a), in the area relative to said account configured with read permission of the activation requests of the enrolment e-keys (17b) in addition to the date of distribution, the kind of the course, and the modalities of execution of the course and other subsidiary information, and by the following operative steps for the the enrolment of a student to a course:

I- the student asking the enrolment to the organization that distributes the course provides for the information required by this latter in a way to assure his identity so that, verified the validity of the request, a one time unique identifier is assigned to the user/student;

II- at the organization that distributes the course the user, with the assigned identifier, is inserted in the archives - in particular in the LMS (2a) - of registered users and managed by it;

III- at the same time the one time unique identifier (17a) is issued in an interactive way for the activation (17b), once in a while, of the e-learning course which, once is activated, the user will access until the expire date of the same course;

IV- furthermore at the same time the issued one time unique identifier and the complementary information (like expire date, modality of development etc.) are made available to the owner of the copyright (5), and access and reading, through web page (4), of the results of the activation that have been done, are guaranteed in a direct and constant way (18a) in relation to the agreement with said owner of the 21

copyright.

2. Technique of authentication through one time unique identifier for the indirect distribution of e-learning services, with a real time survey and monitoring system, according to claim 1 characterised by the fact that the access identifier is issued creating an univocal join between the user and the specific training course, to said join being assigned the monitoring data concerning the training of the single user - such as frequency and results of the test, intermediate or final, and the result of the feed-backs, etc.

3. Technique of authentication through one time unique identifier for the indirect distribution of e-learning services, with a real time survey and monitoring system, according to any of previous claims characterised by the fact that information concerning the monitoring of the single user to which is assigned the one time unique identifier, are properly filtered from sensitive data and are available for the organization that implements and provides e-learning courses.

4. Technique of authentication through one time unique identifier for the indirect distribution of e-learning services, with a real time survey and monitoring system, according to previous claims characterised by the fact that the algorithm that creates and manages the one time unique identifiers execute the control of the assignment of only a course a time to every identifier and only at the expire date of the one allows another enrolment to another course through the issue of a different e-key code.

5. Technique of authentication through one time unique identifier for the indirect distribution of e-learning services, with a real time survey and monitoring system, according to previous claims characterised by the fact that the one time unique identifier - for the access to the e-learning course - is provided to the user\student and 22

at the same time is made available for the organization that produces the courses through connections and configurations which are managed in a secure way.

6. Technique of authentication through one time unique identifier for the indirect distribution of e-learning services, with a real time survey and monitoring system, according to previous claims characterised by the fact that at the issue of the one time unique identifier, being enrolled a new on-line course user, the distributing organization of the course sends a notification e-mail to the organization that produces the e-learning course.