Patent ID: 8620831
Filing Date: 2013-12-31
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for automatically creating and optimizing a curriculum of study across a plurality of educational offerings, the method comprising: preparing comprising presenting, by the computer system over a computer network after the preparing, the plurality of degrees to a student; selecting, by the student over the computer network after the preparing, a first degree from among the plurality of degrees; selecting, by the student, criteria reflecting student preferences for at least one of time to graduate, course credit load, travel distance for attendance, and days of the week for attendance to be imposed by the computer system as constraints on completing the first degree, optimizing, by the computer system, a class schedule comprising selected courses and terms corresponding respectively thereto, selected from the first plurality of courses and the second plurality of courses and completing the requirements corresponding to the first degree within the constraints; presenting to the student, by the computer system over the computer network the class schedule as an individualized, dependency graph to the student.