DESC:The following specification particularly describes and ascertains the nature of this invention and the manner in which it is to be performed:-

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
This application is based on and derives the benefit of Indian Provisional Applications 202141054411, the contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.

TECHNICAL FIELD
[001] Embodiments disclosed herein relate to a field of educational content collaboration methods, and more particularly to a digital educational asset collaboration platform and method for enabling collaboration between educational institutes with respect to digital educational assets.

BACKGROUND
[002] Various educational platforms allow for institutes or other individuals to upload educational content onto their profile to be accessed by any user (e.g., student, teacher, parent or the like); however, none of the available educational platforms help foster collaboration between institutes by facilitating a sharing of educational resources to improve the quality of education offered or quality of educational content provided by an institute.

OBJECTS
[003] The principal object of the embodiments herein is to disclose methods and systems for enabling a plurality of institutes to collaborate with one another by allowing a first institute to share its digital educational assets with at least one other institute, by allowing the first institute to receive a request from a second institute to share the first institute’s digital educational assets with the second institute, and upon granting the request, enabling the members of the second institute to have access to the digital educational assets of the first institute.
[004] Another object of embodiments herein is to disclose methods and systems for enabling an institute to collaborate with an associate (e.g., teacher, staff or the like), by allowing the associate to receive a request from at least one other institute to share the digital educational assets created by the associate, and upon granting the request, enabling members of the at least one other institute to have access to the digital educational assets of the associate.

SUMMARY
[005] Accordingly, the embodiments herein provide a system for managing a digital educational asset collaboration. The system includes a digital educational asset collaboration platform and a plurality of computing devices. Each computing device from the plurality of computing devices is coupled with the digital educational asset collaboration platform, and where each computing device from the plurality of computing devices is operated by at least one member associated with at least one second institute or at least one first institute from a plurality of institutes. The digital educational asset collaboration platform is configured to receive a request from the at least one member associated with the at least one second institute from the plurality of institutes to access at least one digital educational asset associated with the first institute from the plurality of institutes, wherein the request is received at the first institute from the plurality of institutes. Further, the digital educational asset collaboration platform is configured to enable the at least one member associated with the at least one second institute from the plurality of institutes to have access to the at least one digital educational asset associated with the first institute upon granting the request by the at least one member of the first institute.
[006] In an embodiment, the request from at least one member associated with the at least one second institute is received to access the at least one digital educational asset associated with the first institute from the plurality of institutes by analyzing and reviewing at least one available digital educational asset from plurality of available digital educational assets on the digital educational asset collaboration platform by the at least one member associated with the at least one second institute, prioritising and ranking the at least one available digital educational asset from the plurality of available digital educational assets based on at least one parameter, wherein the at least one parameter comprises a quality, detailed explanation, a name of a teacher, a name of the institute, ranking, a review, a feedback, a number of views, a number of offers, an availability, a delivery time, and sending the request from at least one member associated with at least one second institute.
[007] Accordingly, the embodiments herein provide methods for managing a digital educational asset collaboration. The method includes receiving, by a digital educational asset collaboration platform, a request from the at least one member associated with the at least one second institute from the plurality of institutes to access at least one digital educational asset associated with the first institute from the plurality of institutes, wherein the request is received at the first institute from the plurality of institutes. Further, the method includes enabling, by a digital educational asset collaboration platform, the at least one member associated with the at least one second institute from the plurality of institutes to have access to the at least one digital educational asset associated with the first institute upon granting the request by the at least one member of the first institute.
[008] These and other aspects of the embodiments herein will be better appreciated and understood when considered in conjunction with the following description and the accompanying drawings. It should be understood, however, that the following descriptions, while indicating at least one embodiment and numerous specific details thereof, are given by way of illustration and not of limitation. Many changes and modifications may be made within the scope of the embodiments herein without departing from the spirit thereof, and the embodiments herein include all such modifications.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF FIGURES
[009] Embodiments herein are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, through out which like reference letters indicate corresponding parts in the various figures. The embodiments herein will be better understood from the following description with reference to the drawings, in which:
[0010] FIG. 1 illustrates an overview of a system for enabling a plurality of institutes to collaborate with one another on a digital educational asset collaboration platform, in accordance with the embodiments as disclosed herein;
[0011] FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating the different components of the digital educational asset collaboration platform, in accordance with the embodiments as disclosed herein;
[0012] FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating the components within a storage service controller of the digital educational asset collaboration platform, in accordance with the embodiments as disclosed herein;
[0013] FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating the component within a database service controller and examples of data stored in the database service controller, in accordance with the embodiments as disclosed herein;
[0014] FIG. 5 is an example diagram illustrating a logical view of the digital educational asset collaboration platform, in accordance with the embodiments as disclosed herein;
[0015] FIG. 6 is an example diagram illustrating the interaction of a teacher and a student with the digital educational asset collaboration platform, in accordance with the embodiments as disclosed herein;
[0016] FIG. 7 is an example diagram illustrating an application architecture of the digital educational asset collaboration platform, in accordance with the embodiments disclosed herein;
[0017] FIG. 8 is an example diagram illustrating the system of the digital educational asset collaboration platform, in accordance with the embodiments disclosed herein;
[0018] FIG. 9 is a flow chart illustrating a method for collaboration between institutes, in accordance with the embodiments disclosed herein;
[0019] FIG. 10 is an example table of the platform’s building blocks concepts, in accordance with the embodiments disclosed herein;
[0020] FIG. 11 is an example table of the tech stack of the platform, in accordance with the embodiments disclosed herein; and
[0021] FIG. 12 is an example table of the features of the platform that provide it with scalability, in accordance with the embodiments disclosed herein.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0022] The embodiments herein and the various features and advantageous details thereof are explained more fully with reference to the non-limiting embodiments that are illustrated in the accompanying drawings and detailed in the following description. Descriptions of well-known components and processing techniques are omitted so as to not unnecessarily obscure the embodiments herein. The examples used herein are intended merely to facilitate an understanding of ways in which the embodiments herein may be practiced and to further enable those of skill in the art to practice the embodiments herein. Throughout the disclosure, the phrase “such as” has been used to provide examples, however, it should not follow that the examples following the phrase “such as” to be limited to just those examples. Accordingly, the examples should not be construed as limiting the scope of the embodiments herein.
[0023] The embodiment disclosed herein describes methods and systems for enabling collaboration between two institutes with respect to sharing the digital educational assets of one institute with another institute Therefore, it is understood that the scope of the protection is extended to such a program and in addition to a computer readable means having a message therein, such computer readable storage means contain program code means for implementation of one or more steps of the method, when the program runs on a server or mobile device or any suitable programmable device. The method is implemented in at least one embodiment through or together with a software program written in e.g. Very high speed integrated circuit Hardware Description Language (VHDL) another programming language, or implemented by one or more VHDL or several software modules being executed on at least one hardware device. The hardware device can be any kind of portable device that can be programmed. The device may also include means which could be e.g. hardware means like e.g. an ASIC, or a combination of hardware and software means, e.g. an ASIC and an FPGA, or at least one microprocessor and at least one memory with software modules located therein. The method embodiments described herein could be implemented partly in hardware and partly in software. Alternatively, the invention may be implemented on different hardware devices, e.g. using a plurality of CPUs.
[0024] Digital educational assets are those educational assets that are created electronically or are capable of being reproduced electronically. Examples of digital educational assets are, but not limited to, video lectures, question banks, notes, texts, animation, presentations, etc. An example of an electronically created digital educational asset can be an animated video explaining a technical topic. An example of an electronically reproduced digital educational asset can be a scanned copy of a handwritten assignment. Institutes traditionally have their own digital educational assets, however, the quality of digital educational assets of one institute can vary greatly with respect to the quality of digital educational assets of another institute. For example, a first institute’s video lectures on a physics topic, may not be as detailed, explanatory, or engaging, as a second institute’s video lectures on the same physics topic. As a result, students of the first institute may receive subpar education with respect to that physics topic compared to the students of the second institute. Similarly, the second institute may have video lectures on a chemistry topic that is inferior in quality compared to the first institute’s video lectures on the same topic. Since qualified instructors are not distributed equally across an institute, an example where a first institute’s instructors excel in physics but not in other departments, the students bear the brunt of this inequal distribution. The method and systems disclosed herein enable collaboration between institutes with respect to sharing their digital educational assets. A first institute can request a second institute for access to its digital educational assets, such that upon the first institute being granted access, members of the first institute (such as students and instructors) will be able to access the second institute’s digital educational assets. It is also to be noted that the terms “digital educational asset,” “digital education asset,” “digital asset,” “educational asset,” and “digital educational content” can be used interchangeably to refer to digital educational assets that comprise of video lectures, question banks, links, assignments, worksheets, teacher training material, class planners, competitive exam material, and best teaching techniques.
[0025] In an embodiment, the request from the member associated with the second institute is received to access the digital educational asset associated with the first institute from the plurality of institutes by analyzing and reviewing at least one available digital educational asset from plurality of available digital educational assets on the digital educational asset collaboration platform by the at least one member associated with the at least one second institute, prioritising and ranking the available digital educational asset from the plurality of available digital educational assets based on a parameter and sending the request from the member associated with at least one second institute. The parameter includes a quality, detailed explanation, a name of a teacher, a name of the institute, ranking, a review, a feedback, a number of views, a number of offers, an availability, and a delivery time.
[0026] The institutes may create a profile on the digital educational asset collaboration platform (“platform”) and upload their digital educational assets to their profile on the platform. An institutes profile creation can be subject to an approval process by the platform’s on-boarding team. Upon approval, institutes will have complete access to the features provided to it by the platform. Institutes will have control over what digital educational assets uploaded to their profile can be accessible to students. An institute can grant access to the digital educational assets by having the students access the platform through a mobile application or progressive web application. The platform can also be accessed on an integrated smart board for better teaching in a classroom. Over time, an institute may amass a significant worth of digital educational assets that can benefit all the stake holders. The institute may also make their digital educational assets available on a marketplace on the platform.
[0027] The institute that feels that its digital educational assets are lacking in quality with respect to a certain topic, can review the available digital educational assets in the marketplace on the platform, and after shortlisting them, can reach out to the corresponding owner(s) of the shortlisted digital educational asset regarding the details on how to gain access to the shortlisted digital educational asset. Upon granting of access, the shortlisted digital educational assets become accessible to members (e.g., students and instructors) of the institute on the requesting institute’s profile on the platform. The institute can be, but is not limited to, a university or high school. The members of the institute can be, but are not limited to, students, instructors etc.
[0028] In another embodiment, the members of a first institute may obtain access to a second institute’s digital educational assets upon payment of a fee to the second institute through a third-party payment gateway on the platform. However, the member who purchased the digital educational asset may not be allowed to provide other members of the same institute with access to the purchased digital educational asset.
[0029] The students enrolled at a respective institute can also create a profile on the platform, which will allow the students to have access to their respective institute’s digital educational assets or another institution’s digital educational assets, provided that their respective institute has been granted access to the other institution’s educational assets. The student’s access to the digital educational assets of their respective institute may be subject to an authentication process that confirms the identity of the student; that is the authentication process checks if the student is enrolled in the respective institute and that the user creating the student’s profile or viewing the digital educational assets is the student itself. The authentication process can be automated, an example of this being using Amazon Cognito user pool. The authentication process may also include having the platform use the student’s computing device’s geolocation service to confirm if it was indeed the student himself/herself trying to access the platform. A non-automated authentication process can include the steps of having the student provide information (name, class, branch, scan of student identification card) to the institute on the platform, and then having the institute verify the information provided by the student with the institute’s own student database. Upon verification, the student of the institute will gain access to the digital educational assets offered by their institute or obtained in collaboration with another institute, along with other services as disclosed herein. In another embodiment, the institute can authorize students by inputting details of the students on the platform’s database such that if a student signs up on the platform in the future, the student will be authorized immediately if the details provided by the student match the details provided by the institute on the platform’s database.
[0030] The institute’s digital educational assets can be created and uploaded by an instructor of the institute. The instructor can be, but is not limited to, a professor, an assistant professor, a research assistant, teacher etc. that is a member or affiliated with the institute. An institute may request that the role of an administrator be assigned to a designated member of the institute on the platform. A member of an institute with an administrator role can perform at least one of: uploading the digital educational assets of the institution, granting or denying another institution from access to the institution’s digital educational assets, approving or denying a digital educational asset uploaded by an instructor of the institute, and request access to another institute’s digital educational assets.
[0031] In another embodiment, the institute may also collaborate with an associate, a person not affiliated with the institute, to provide the institute with digital educational assets that have been created by the associate. This can be done by the associate creating a profile on the platform and uploading the digital educational assets to the associate’s profile on the platform. The associate can then grant an institute with access to the associate’s uploaded digital educational assets. Such an associate can be a retired professor, an individual with years of industry experience etc.
[0032] The platform may have a feature that allows for a user (e.g. student, instructor, associate, parent, institute etc.) of the platform to provide feedback in the form of user-friendliness of the platform, rating the quality of the digital educational assets, any other suggestions for improving the platform etc. The platform may also include a feature that allows a user who has access to a digital educational asset to contact the creator or uploader of the digital educational asset regarding information pertaining to the digital educational asset, such as clarifying any doubts with respect to the topic or content covered by the digital educational asset. The platform may also include a messaging module where students belonging to the same institute can message each other, or a feature where students can create a discussion board to discuss topics relating to a subject.
[0033] Referring now to the drawings, and more particularly to FIGS. 1 through 12, where similar reference characters denote corresponding features consistently throughout the figures, there are shown embodiments.
[0034] FIG. 1 illustrates an overview of a system (1000) for enabling a plurality of institutes to collaborate with one another on a digital educational asset collaboration platform (140), in accordance with the embodiments as disclosed herein. In an embodiment, the system (1000) can include a student computing device (100), an instructor computing device (110), and an institute computing device (120) (collectively “computing device (100/110/120)”), which can be any device that is a computer or incorporates a computer, such as a personal computer (PC), desktop computer, a laptop computer, a notebook, a tablet computer, a smartphone, or the like. The computer may also have one or more general or special purpose processors, memory, storage, and networking components (either wired or wireless). The computing device (100/110/120) can execute an operating system, for example, a Microsoft Windows-compatible operating system (OS), Apple OS X® or iOS®, a Linux® distribution, or Google’s Android OS. The computing device (100/110/120) may also be configured to download a mobile application (102 or 112 or 122) (collectively “mobile application (102/112/122)”). The mobile application (102/112/122) can be downloaded from an application store which can be stored on the computing device (100/110/120). The mobile application (102/112/122) may include a log in and interface for interacting with the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140). The computing device (100/110/120) may also use a web browser (104 or 114 or 124) (collectively “web browser 104/114/124”), such as Microsoft Edge®, Mozilla Firefox®, Google Chrome®, and Apple Safari®, as an interface to interact with the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140).
[0035] The network (130) can facilitate communication between computing devices (100/110/120) and the platform (140). Examples of network (130) can be the Internet, a local area network, wide area network etc.
[0036] The digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) may be implemented using a single computer, or a network of computers, including cloud-based computer implementations The computers are preferably server class computers including one or more high-performance CPUs. The digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) may include one or more processors (not shown) such as a microprocessor, a central processing unit, or the like. The processor may be one or more special-purpose processors such as an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a field programmable gate array (FPGA), a digital signal processor (DSP), a network processor, or the like.
[0037] FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating the different components of the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140), in accordance with the embodiments as disclosed herein. The digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) includes a storage service controller (201), an elastic cache service controller (203), an email and notification service controller (205), a database service controller (207), a student service controller (209), a tenant service controller (211), an identity service controller (213), a reporting service controller (215), a retail service controller (217), a knowledge meter controller (219), a Pareto-chart controller (221), a remedial bucket controller (223).
[0038] The elastic cache service controller (203) can enable the digital educational asset collaboration platform 140 to continue running smoothly despite a sudden influx in the volume of the users signing up on the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) or simultaneously using the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140). The email and notification service controller (205) can allow for users of the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) to receive emails from other users of the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140), receive notifications such as a new upload of a digital educational asset etc. These emails and notifications can be seen by a user on the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) itself or through the email address or phone number provided during the registration process. The student service controller (209) can be responsible for managing student-related activities on the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140). The student service controller (209) can be implemented by relational database, Amazon Web Service DynamoDB, and Amazon Web Service S3. The reporting service controller (215) can allow the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) to provide reporting capabilities that need special treatment of the data in the backend, sch as simple queries for complex reporting requirements. The reporting service controller (215) can use PostgreSQL regional database. The retail service controller (217) can allow for the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) to cater to retail users and can allow for integration of the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) with third-party payment gateways, and can keep track of the information relating to the retail users and the third-party payment gateways. The retail service controller (217) can use a relational database for the backend. The identity service controller (213) can allow for the authentication of the user logging into/accessing the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140). Authentication can be done using Amazon Cognito user pool, for example.
[0039] The tenant service controller (211) can be available to users of the platform (140) that are institutes. The platform (140) can classify an institute as a tenant. The tenant service controller (211) can be implemented with a multi-tenant architecture. The tenant service controller (211) can be responsible for managing configuration of multiple institutes/tenants, such as theme information, feature set configuration, content hierarchy settings etc. The tenant service controller (211) can be implemented by relational database and Amazon Web Service S3 in the backend.
[0040] The storage service controller (201) and the database service controller (207) can be implemented using non-transitory computer-readable storage devices (such as solid-state memories, optical and magnetic media), and suitable database management systems for data access and retrieval.
[0041] The knowledge meter controller (219) shows a level of knowledge of the student or the teacher. The remedial bucket controller (223) ensures a educational asset originality and removes an error and duplication in the educational asset. The Pareto-chart controller (221) indicates that an relative impact for each contributing factor has on an overall problem associated with the educational asset.
[0042] Those of skill in the art will appreciate that the platform (140) can comprise of additional components not disclosed.
[0043] FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating the components within the storage service controller (201) of the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140), in accordance with the embodiments as disclosed herein. The storage service controller (201) includes a link repository (301), a document repository (303), and a video repository (305). The link repository (301) can store links which can be external to the platform, such as a YouTube® link or a link to a paper in a journal, the document repository (303) can store documents such as question banks, and the video repository (305) can store media such as video lectures. The storage service controller (201) can be a semi-organized, generally un-indexed disk location where the data in the repositories (301/303/305) can be saved and stored as one large object. The storage service controller (201) can have rough search capabilities but generally is not intended to support detailed queries or data retrieval.
[0044] FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating the components within the database service controller (207) and examples of data stored in the components within the database service controller (207), in accordance with the embodiments as disclosed herein. The database service controller (207) comprises of a student database (401), an instructor database (403), and an institute database (405). The student database (401) can store data relating to a student, such as their name (411), their institute (413), their class (415), their email address (417), their phone number (419) etc. The instructor database (403) can store data relating to an instructor, such as the instructor’s name (431), their institute (433), their course (435), their email address (437), their phone number (439) etc. The institute database (405) can store data relating to an institute, such as the institute’s name (451), the institute’s instructors (453), the institute’s students (455), and the institute’s email address (457). It is also to be noted that the databases (401 or 403 or 405) can store additional data not illustrated in FIG. 4. For example, the databases (401 or 403 or 405) can store data such as the number of videos uploaded to an institute’s profile, number of videos watched by a student etc. In other embodiments, the database service controller (207) may be able to store data of different kinds of users, such as an associate or parent. The database service controller (207) can be structured systems designed to hold individual data elements in referentially sound structures that maintain data integrity, data lineage, and support detailed and aggregated reporting. The data in the data service (207) can be stored within databases, and can be designed such that individual key data elements of a file be extracted and stored separately. The database service controller (207) can be implemented by Oracle, MS SQL Server, DB, MySQL, PostgreSQL etc.
[0045] FIG. 5 is an example diagram illustrating a logical view of the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140), in accordance with the embodiments disclosed herein. The student, the teacher, the parent, and the institute can access the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) using a mobile application or progressive web application (“PWA”) stored on the computing device (100/110/120). The digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) includes a microservices based sub-platform (502) handling a content service, a parent service and a reporting service.
[0046] By using the content service or the parent service, the parent can use the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) to get real-time data about their child’s progress or activity on the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140). The digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) can authenticate the identity of a user accessing the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140), and upon successful authentication, offer various services or permissions depending on the user. For example, an instructor will have permission to upload and access digital educational assets, whereas a student will only have permission to access digital educational assets. The digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) can have a delivery and operations infrastructure giving it capabilities such as observability, continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), authentication and authorization, secrets management, and ML Notebooks included in a delivery and operations infrastructure controller (504). The digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) can also be integrated with other partners such as payment gateways, content curators, content providers, and Software as a Service (SaaS) companies in the 3rd party data and content provider (506).
[0047] FIG. 6 is an example diagram illustrating the interaction of the instructor and the student with the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140), in accordance with the embodiments as disclosed herein. The terms “instructor,” “teacher,” and “professor” are used interchangeably to refer to a member of an institute who is teaching a course. The instructor of the institute can upload digital educational assets, such as video lectures, documents, and links, to the institute’s profile on the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140), which can enable a student of the institute to view these digital educational assets. The instructor can publish these digital educational assets on demand, build the repository (i.e., link repository (301), the video repository (303) or the document repository (305) of it over time, and share the digital educational assets with other instructors and students in the same institute. The students can be notified on the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) of any upload of a digital educational asset by their instructor. The students can also interact with the instructor by posting a question either on the page displaying the video lecture or by privately messaging the instructor. FIG. 6 also illustrates how the digital educational assets can be monetized when an institute shares access of its digital educational assets with another institute upon monetary consideration. An institute can negotiate for any royalty fees or any other terms relating to granting another institute with access to its digital educational assets. The institute can then send a request to the staff of the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) who can enable collaboration between the two institutes by enabling the requesting institute to view the granting institute’s digital educational assets. Similarly, associates, such as a retired professor or experienced industry individual who is not affiliated with the university, can be content creators as they can create digital educational assets, upload it to their profile, and monetize it by allowing an institute to have access to these digital educational assets upon monetary consideration or any other terms agreed upon. An associate can also be given a permission to upload digital educational assets created by that associate directly to an institute’s profile. Content curators can monetize through the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) as they can enhance the quality of a digital educational asset. For example, a content curator can add closed captions, animations, and other effects to a video lecture to improve its quality. Having content providers on a marketplace on the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) can allow for institutes to directly purchase from the content provider or collaborate with the institute to make the institute’s digital educational assets better in quality for the students of the institute. An institute in turn will be able to monetize these digital educational assets by sharing them with other institutes.
[0048] In an embodiment, the request from the member associated with the second institute is received to access the digital educational asset associated with the first institute from the plurality of institutes by analyzing and reviewing at least one available digital educational asset from plurality of available digital educational assets on the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) by the member associated with the second institute, prioritising and ranking the available digital educational asset from the plurality of available digital educational assets based on at least one parameter, and sending the request from at least one member associated with the second institute. The parameter includes a quality, detailed explanation, a name of a teacher, a name of the institute, ranking, a review, a feedback, a number of views, a number of offers, an availability, and a delivery time.
[0049] FIG. 7 is an example diagram illustrating the application architecture of the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140), in accordance with the embodiments disclosed herein. In an example, Amazon Route53 is a highly scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) web service that can handle the DNS requests by the user seeking to access the website of the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140). The static content of the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) can be stored and served from Amazon S3, which is a cloud storage that can enable the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) to store and retrieve any amount of data using highly scalable, reliably, fast, and inexpensive data storage; the static content of the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) can be delivered by Amazon Cloudfront. Authentication of the user can happen via Amazon Cognito user pools, which will generate an Identity Token that can be exchanged with an Access token from identity service controller (213). The requests from the users can be passed through an Application Load Balancer (ALB) (802) that can forward the requests to containers orchestrated on Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). The push notifications can be enabled through Simple Notification Service (SNS). The digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) can also use a Relational Database Service (RDS) to act as a data layer for the application, which helps with setting up, operating, and scaling a relational database in the cloud. An additional benefit of the RDS can be its suitability for structured and assistance with Adhoc SQL queries. It is to be understood that this paragraph is not intended to limit the scope of the invention as the invention can use different services to achieve the same functions as outlined in this paragraph.
[0050] FIG. 8 is an example diagram illustrating the system of the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140), in accordance with the embodiments disclosed herein. A user can use the computing device (100/110/120) to access the platform (140) through a webpage on a web browser (104/114/124) or a mobile application. The front end of the platform can be Angular 11, Material Design, the service layer can be Spring Boot +Java or PostgreSQL. The digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) can also include a content delivery network (804), load balancer (802), and a container orchestration engine (806) (implemented by Strapi) for hosting all the content in the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140). For the sake of brevity, repetitive description of the functions of the identity service controller (213), the storage service controller (201), the elastic cache service controller (203), the email and notification service controller (205), the database service controller (207), the student service controller (209), the tenant service controller (211), the retail service controller (211), and the reporting service controller (215) is omitted from this paragraph. The digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) can have capabilities such as observability, continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD, implemented by Azure DevOps), infrastructure as code (implemented by Terraform), secrets management (implemented by Hashicorp Vault), workflow management, and log management (AWS X-ray). The digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) can also be integrated with other partners such as payment gateways or SaaS companies.
[0051] FIG. 9 is a flow chart (900) illustrating a method of collaboration between institutes, in accordance with the embodiments disclosed herein. Step 901 involves a first institute creating their profile on the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) and step 903 involves a second institute creating their profile on the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140). Step 905 involves the uploading of the first institute’s digital educational assets to the first institute’s profile on the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140). Step 907 involves the second institute requesting access to the first institute’s digital educational assets, and upon a grant of access, step 909 allows members of the second institute, such as students, instructors etc., to access the digital educational assets of the first institute on the second institute’s profile. It is also to be noted that the steps outlined in the flow chart as in FIG. 9 do not have to be performed in the order presented. The steps can be performed in a different order or simultaneously. For example, step 903, which involves the second institute creating a profile on the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) can occur prior to step 901, which involves the first institute creating a profile on the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140). Further, in some embodiments, some steps listed in FIG. 9 may be omitted.
[0052] FIG. 10 is an example table of the platform’s (140) building blocks. The digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) can use API-first Evolutionary Architecture to enable ecosystems. The digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) can use predictive intelligence to facilitate decisions across user journeys. In another embodiment, a supervised machine learning algorithm, such as support vector machine can be used for predictive learning. In other embodiments, other machine learning algorithms, such as neural network, random forest or any other supervised learning algorithms may be used. The digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) can use a “shift left” security approach so as to discover any early defects in the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140), thereby reducing the blast radius and as a consequence, the cost as well. For the sake of brevity, repetitive descriptions of features disclosed earlier herein are omitted.
[0053] FIG. 11 is an example table (1100) of the tech stack of the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140). For the sake of brevity, repetitive descriptions of features disclosed herein are omitted.
[0054] FIG. 12 is an example table of the features that can contribute to the scalability of the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140). The delivery infrastructure of the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) can use elastic infrastructure, CI/CD, deployment at runtime, monitoring, and security at its core. The API Architecture & Remediation of the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) can involve developer experience, event driven architecture, microservices based topologies, service boundaries, and single view of the customer. The platform (140) can have self-service data which can enable it to gain insights, real time data pipelines, build data products, granular authentication and authorization, content strategy, authoring, and curation tools. The experimental infrastructure and telemetry of the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) can enable it to have data driven decision making, canary releasing process, toggle architecture, and visualization and experimentation.
[0055] The embodiments disclosed herein can be implemented through at least one software program running on at least one hardware device and performing network management functions to control the network elements. The network elements shown in Fig. 1 include blocks which can be at least one of a hardware device, or a combination of hardware device and software module.
[0056] The foregoing description of the specific embodiments will so fully reveal the general nature of the embodiments herein that others can, by applying current knowledge, readily modify and/or adapt for various applications such specific embodiments without departing from the generic concept, and, therefore, such adaptations and modifications should and are intended to be comprehended within the meaning and range of equivalents of the disclosed embodiments. It is to be understood that the phraseology or terminology employed herein is for the purpose of description and not of limitation. Therefore, while the embodiments herein have been described in terms of embodiments, those skilled in the art will recognize that the embodiments herein can be practiced with modification within the spirit and scope of the embodiments as described herein.
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We claim:
1. A system (1000) for managing a digital educational asset collaboration, comprising:
a digital educational asset collaboration platform (140); and
a plurality of computing devices (100, 110 and 120), wherein each computing device from the plurality of computing devices (100, 110 and 120) is coupled with the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140), and wherein each computing device from the plurality of computing devices (100, 110 and 120) is operated by at least one member associated with at least one second institute or at least one first institute from a plurality of institutes;
wherein the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) is configured to:
receive a request from the at least one member associated with the at least one second institute from the plurality of institutes to access at least one digital educational asset associated with the first institute from the plurality of institutes, wherein the request is received at the first institute from the plurality of institutes, and
enable the at least one member associated with the at least one second institute from the plurality of institutes to have access to the at least one digital educational asset associated with the first institute upon granting the request by the at least one member of the first institute.

2. The system (1000) as claimed in claim 1, wherein the request from at least one member associated with the at least one second institute is received to access the at least one digital educational asset associated with the first institute from the plurality of institutes by:
analyzing and reviewing at least one available digital educational asset from plurality of available digital educational assets on the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) by the at least one member associated with the at least one second institute;
prioritising and ranking the at least one available digital educational asset from the plurality of available digital educational assets based on at least one parameter, wherein the at least one parameter comprises a quality, detailed explanation, a name of a teacher, a name of the institute, ranking, a review, a feedback, a number of views, a number of offers, an availability, and a delivery time; and
sending the request from at least one member associated with at least one second institute.

3. The system (1000) as claimed in claim 1, wherein the request is grant upon payment of a fee to the at least one first institute through a payment gateway on the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140), wherein the at least one member who purchased the at least one digital educational asset is not be allowed to provide other member of a same institute or a different institute with access to a purchased digital educational asset.

4. The system (1000) as claimed in claim 1, wherein the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) comprises:
an elastic cache service controller (203) enabling the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) to continue running smoothly despite the at least one member influx in a volume of users signing up on the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140);
an email and notification service controller (205) allowing for the at least one member of the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) to receive at least one of an email, a message and a notification from other member of the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140);
a database service controller (207) comprising a student database (401), an instructor database (403), and an institute database (405), wherein the student database (401) stores data relating to at least one student, wherein the instructor database (403) stores data relating to at least one instructor, and the institute database store data relating to at least one institute;
a student service controller (209) managing at least one student-related activity on the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140);
a tenant service controller (211) for managing configuration of at least one institute from the plurality of institutes;
an identity service controller (213) allowing for an authentication of at least one member logging into or accessing the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140), wherein the identity service controller (213) provides a permission to upload and access digital educational assets on the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140);
a reporting service controller (215) allowing the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) to provide reporting capabilities;
a retail service controller (217) allowing for the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) to cater to retail users and allowing for integration of the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) with a payment gateway, wherein retail service controller (217) keeps track of the information relating to a retail user and the payment gateways;
a knowledge meter controller (219) showing a level of knowledge of the at least one member;
a remedial bucket controller (223) ensuring an educational asset originality and removing an error and duplication in the at least one educational asset; and
a Pareto-chart controller (221) indicating that an relative impact for each contributing factor has on an overall problem associated with the educational asset

5. The system (100) as claimed in claim 1, wherein the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) comprises a storage service controller (201) having a link repository (301), a document repository (303), and a video repository (305), wherein the link repository (301) stores at least one link related to the at least one educational asset, wherein the document repository (303) store at least one document related to the at least one educational asset, and wherein the storage service controller (201) supports at least one query or data retrieval related to the at least one educational asset, wherein the storage service controller (201) stores a data in un-indexed disk location.

6. The system (100) as claimed in claim 1, wherein the educational asset comprises at least one of a video lecture, a question bank, a link, an assignment, a worksheet, a teacher training material, a class planner, a competitive exam material, and a suitable teaching technique.

7. The system (100) as claimed in claim 1, wherein the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) comprises a microservices based sub-platform (502) handling a content service, a parent service and a reporting service, wherein the content service and the parent service allow a parent to obtain a real-time data about their child progress or activity on the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140).

8. The system (100) as claimed in claim 1, wherein the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) comprises a content delivery network (804), a load balancer (802), and a container orchestration engine (806) for hosting the at least one digital educational assets in the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140).

9. The system (100) as claimed in claim 1, wherein a student interacts with an instructor by posting a question on a page displaying a lecture on the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) or by privately messaging the instructor on the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140).

10. The system (100) as claimed in claim 1, wherein the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) notifies a member about an upload of the at least one digital educational asset.

11. The system (100) as claimed in claim 1, wherein the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) uses a machine learning technique to predictive intelligence to facilitate decisions across interactions of the at least one member.

12. A method for managing a digital educational asset collaboration, comprising:
receiving, by a digital educational asset collaboration platform (140), a request from the at least one member associated with the at least one second institute from the plurality of institutes to access at least one digital educational asset associated with the first institute from the plurality of institutes, wherein the request is received at the first institute from the plurality of institutes, and
enabling, by the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140), the at least one member associated with the at least one second institute from the plurality of institutes to have access to the at least one digital educational asset associated with the first institute upon granting the request by the at least one member of the first institute;
wherein digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) is coupled with each computing device from a plurality of computing devices (100, 110 and 120), and wherein each computing device from the plurality of computing devices (100, 110 and 120) is operated by at least one member associated with at least one second institute or at least one first institute from a plurality of institutes.

13. The method as claimed in claim 12, wherein the request from at least one member associated with the at least one second institute is received to access the at least one digital educational asset associated with the first institute from the plurality of institutes by:
analyzing and reviewing at least one available digital educational asset from plurality of available digital educational assets on the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) by the at least one member associated with the at least one second institute;
prioritising and ranking the at least one available digital educational asset from the plurality of available digital educational assets based on at least one parameter, wherein the at least one parameter comprises a quality, detailed explanation, a name of a teacher, a name of the institute, ranking, a review, a feedback, a number of views, a number of offers, an availability, a delivery time; and
sending the request from at least one member associated with at least one second institute.

14. The method as claimed in claim 12, wherein the request is grant upon payment of a fee to the at least one first institute through a payment gateway on the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140), wherein the at least one member who purchased the at least one digital educational asset is not be allowed to provide other member of a same institute or a different institute with access to a purchased digital educational asset.

15. The method as claimed in claim 12, wherein the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) comprises:
an elastic cache service controller (203) enabling the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) to continue running smoothly despite the at least one member influx in a volume of users signing up on the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140);
an email and notification service controller (205) allowing for the at least one member of the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) to receive at least one of an email, a message and a notification from other member of the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140);
a database service controller (207) comprising a student database (401), an instructor database (403), and an institute database (405), wherein the student database (401) stores data relating to at least one student, wherein the instructor database (403) stores data relating to at least one instructor, and the institute database store data relating to at least one institute;
a student service controller (209) managing at least one student-related activity on the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140);
a tenant service controller (211) for managing configuration of at least one institute from the plurality of institutes;
an identity service controller (213) allowing for an authentication of at least one member logging into or accessing the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140), wherein the identity service controller (213) provides a permission to upload and access digital educational assets on the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140);
a reporting service controller (215) allowing the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) to provide reporting capabilities;
a retail service controller (217) allowing for the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) to cater to retail users and allowing for integration of the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) with a payment gateway, wherein retail service controller (217) keeps track of the information relating to a retail user and the payment gateways;
a knowledge meter controller (219) showing a level of knowledge of the at least one member;
a remedial bucket controller (223) ensuring an educational asset originality and removing an error and duplication in the at least one educational asset;
a Pareto-chart controller (221) indicating that an relative impact for each contributing factor has on an overall problem associated with the educational asset; and
a storage service controller (201) having a link repository (301), a document repository (303), and a video repository (305), wherein the link repository (301) stores at least one link related to the at least one educational asset, wherein the document repository (303) store at least one document related to the at least one educational asset, and wherein the storage service controller (201) supports at least one query or data retrieval related to the at least one educational asset, wherein the storage service controller (201) stores a data in un-indexed disk location.

16. The method as claimed in claim 12, wherein the educational asset comprises at least one of a video lecture, a question bank, a link, an assignment, a worksheet, a teacher training material, a class planner, a competitive exam material, and a suitable teaching technique.

17. The method as claimed in claim 12, wherein the digital educational asset collaboration platform (140) uses a machine learning technique to predictive intelligence to facilitate decisions across interactions of the at least one member.

Dated: 23rd November 2022

Signature:
Name of the Signatory: Nitin Mohan Nair
Patent Agent No. - 2585