System and method for managing continued attention to distance-learning content
Management of a user's continued attention to distance learning content using a general purpose computer having a central processing unit and an operating system configured to run multiple program applications concurrently. A memory stores the distance learning content. A distance learning module comprises code executable on the central processing unit, as one of the multiple program applications. The distance learning module presents the distance learning content to a user and is operable to interrupt a presentation of the distance learning content in response to prescribed events concerning another one of the multiple program applications. A method executing on a computer that an concurrently run multiple applications identifies events concerning an application other than the distance learning application, processes the identified events so as to identify a prescribed event among the identified events, and interrupts the presentation of the distance learning content in response to the prescribed event.
1. A computer system to facilitate management of a user's continued attention to distance learning content, the system comprising:
a general purpose computer including:
a central processing unit and an operating system configured to run multiple program applications concurrently;
a memory that stores the distance learning content; and
a distance learning module comprising code executable on the central processing unit as one of the multiple program applications for presenting the distance learning content to a user and operable to interrupt a presentation of the distance learning content in response to a prescribed event concerning another one of the multiple program applications.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the distance learning module is further operable to resume the presentation of the distance learning content, after the prescribed event concerning the another one of the multiple program applications has ceased, in response to interaction with a window presented by the distance learning module.
3. The system of claim 1 , further comprising at least one database communicably attached to the general purpose computer.
4. The system of claim 3 , wherein the distance learning module is further operable to provide notification regarding an employee's compliance-standing with continuing education requirements.
5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the distance learning module is further operable to determine an employee's compliance-standing with continuing education requirements.
6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the distance learning module is further operable to identify and manage employer identified relationships and associated continuing education requirements.
7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the distance learning module is further operable to identify and manage continuing education content providers and associated continuing education requirements.
8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the distance learning module is further operable to identify and manage continuing education accrediting agency identified relationships and associated continuing education requirements.
9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the distance learning module is further operable to identify and manage employee identified relationships and associated continuing education requirements.
10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the distance learning module is further operable to identify and manage regulatory agency identified relationships and associated continuing education requirements.
11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the distance learning module is further operable to interrogate a user so and capture evidence of the user's attendance to the distance learning content.
12. The system of claim 1 , wherein the distance learning module is further operable to provide unique codes to a user accessing the distance learning content to be recorded by a user to evidence the user's attendance to the distance learning content.
13. A computer system to facilitate management of a user's continued attention to distance learning content, the system comprising:
a general purpose computer including:
a central processing unit and an operating system configured to run multiple program applications concurrently;
a memory that stores the distance learning content; and
a distance learning application comprising code executable on the central processing unit as one of the multiple program applications for presenting the distance learning content to a user and including a plurality of modules executing on the central processing unit including an event module operable to identify events concerning another one of the multiple program applications, an event processing module operable to identify a prescribed event among the identified events, and an action module operable to interrupt a presentation of the distance learning content in response to the prescribed event.
14. A method for ensuring a user's continued attention to distance learning content, comprising the steps of:
executing a distance learning application that presents distance learning content to the user on a display connected to a computer, the computer having a central processing unit, and an operating system configured to concurrently run multiple program applications other than the distance learning application;
identifying events concerning one of the multiple program applications other than the distance learning application using an event module executing in the processor;
processing the identified events so as to identify a prescribed event among the identified events using an event processing module executing in the processor, and
interrupting the presentation of the distance learning content on the display connected to the computer in response to the prescribed event.
15. The method of claim 14 , further comprising the step of resuming the presentation of the distance learning content on the display connected to the computer after the prescribed event concerning the one of the multiple program applications other than the distance learning application has ceased.