System and method for providing scalable educational content

Abstract

Presented are a system and method for providing a graphical user interface (GUI) based modular platform having educational content. The method includes providing an interactive GUI on a computing device accessible by a user, receiving a first indication of a language being studied, displaying a GUI layer presenting a selection of level, unit, activity, and/or lesson, receiving a lesson selection, and computing a rating or score of the user's performance for the lesson. The system includes a control module, a language parser accessing content within repositories and providing language specific content, a syntax rule base providing language specific rules to the language parser, a lesson format base providing a lesson style to the control module, and a speech recognition system evaluating a user's utterance for pronunciation and sentence structure accuracy.

We claim: 
     
         1 . A system for providing a graphical user interface (GUI) based modular platform, comprising:
 a control module coupled to a bus, and configured to receive and provide data and control signals;   a language parser coupled to the bus;   a syntax rule base coupled to the bus and associated with the language parser, the syntax rule base configured to provide language specific rules of a particular language to the language parser, the rules provided to instruct the language parser how to put together individual elements to create a sentence in the particular language;   a lesson format base coupled to the bus, the lesson format base comprising a plurality of lesson module styles and configured to provide a selected lesson module style to the language parser;   a presentation module for presenting the GUI to a user; and   a speech recognition system coupled to the bus and configured to receive an utterance from the user, wherein the utterance is evaluated with regard to at least one of pronunciation accuracy and sentence structure accuracy,   wherein the language parser is configured to access, based on the at least one lesson module style and on the language specific rules provided by the syntax rule base, content pertaining to a plurality of languages within repositories, to create sentences by stringing together individual components of the content, and to provide language specific content including the sentences to the control module, and   wherein the control module to send the language specific content to the presentation module for presentation in the GUI.   
     
     
         2 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the repositories are at least one of a word repository, an audio repository, and a textual repository. 
     
     
         3 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the language parser is configured to access at least one of word content, audio content, and video content based on at least one of word, audio file, and image. 
     
     
         4 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the language parser is configured to cross-reference the language specific rules with at least one universal identifier to access the repositories' content. 
     
     
         5 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the control module is configured to merge the language specific content and the lesson styles to create GUI hyperlink layers for display at a user's computing device. 
     
     
         6 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the speech recognition system is configured to perform an audio analysis using acoustic models to evaluate the pronunciation accuracy. 
     
     
         7 . The system of  claim 6 , wherein the acoustic models are based on at least one of native language speakers and non-native language speakers having the same language demographic as a user. 
     
     
         8 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the speech recognition system is configured to perform a structural analysis using syntax models to evaluate the sentence structure accuracy. 
     
     
         9 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein each GUI is a generic GUI structure that is populated by the control module based on input from the language parser and the lesson format base.