Activity based system and method for charging student accounts

Abstract

A system for charging one or more learning session to one or more student accounts comprises an online learning system having one or more nodes that creates one or more online learning sessions over one or more communications channels between one or more students and corresponding teachers. An enrollment node receives student enrollment information. A scheduling node schedules the online learning session. A databases the stores information relating to one or more one or more charge criterion information for charging the one or more learning sessions to the one or more student accounts based on communications channel activity. An activity node receives communications channel activity information associated with one or more learning sessions, and an accounting node associates a charge information for a learning session to the student account based on the channel activity information and one or more charge criterion information. The charge information for the learning session is associated with the student account based on a determination of whether one or more communications channel activity associated with the learning session satisfy the one or more charge criterion.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A computer program product including a non-transitory computer readable medium having one or more nodes including computer readable program code embodied thereon, said non-transitory computer readable program code adapted to be executed for charging one more learning sessions to one or more student accounts, the computer program product comprising:
 an online learning system having one or more nodes that creates one or more online learning sessions over one or more communications channels between one or more students and corresponding teachers;   an enrollment node that receives student enrollment information;   a scheduling node that schedules the one or more online learning sessions;   a database that stores information relating to one or more charge criterion information for charging the one or more online learning sessions to one or more student accounts based on communications channel activity;   an activity node for receiving communications channel activity information associated with the one or more online learning sessions; and   an accounting node that associates a charge information for a learning session to a student account based on:
 (i) the communications channel activity occurring during the learning session, and 
 (ii) the one or more charge criterion information, wherein the charge criterion relates to a number of lessons scored and a number of skills mastered.