Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Rajeev Kumar Mittal

Parul Manek

Mohamed Rouatbi

Xin Li

Kevin Gammill

Lei Wang

Zhipeng Zhao

Zubin Alexander

Qin Zhou

Ellery Charlson

Manjusha Madhav Mangaonkar

Yuan-Fen Kuo

Tony Kao

Brian James Hardy

Described is a technology in which a set of objects represent educational entities of an educational model, with relationships between objects. For example, a course object instance may have a relationship with a task instance and a user instance (such as representing a student). Other objects may include user credentials objects, group objects, degree program objects, course plan objects, institution objects, school objects, and/or department objects. The set of objects may be pre-defined and maintained in a persistent storage; this pre-defined set may be extended with an extended object that has relationships with pre-defined objects. The educational entities of an object model may be maintained in rows of a table, with each row having a field that identifies which entity is represented by that row. The table is accessed to determine relationships between an instantiated object for an entity and at least one other instantiated object for another entity.

Educational entity architecture and object model

The educational adaptive provider architecture described herein provides a way for an educational services framework to be built on varying underlying existing technologies without any changes in the object model and services. The provider framework supports the ability to have multiple types of providers for various services, such as, for example, for authorization, authentication, communication, grouping, scoring, social-networking, storage and user functions. The educational adaptive provider architecture provides easy integration of existing institutional and educational service deployments.

Educational adaptive provider architecture

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