Network-Based System for Social Emotional Learning

A computer-implemented method for providing social emotional education, comprising:

• storing, in a computer storage, a plurality of competencies for social emotional learning and education scenarios for the plurality of competencies, wherein at least one of the education scenarios includes an interactive multi-media simulation of a real life situation that involves at least one child character;
• enabling one of the education scenarios to be presented on a user device;
• receiving an input from a child user in response to the presentation of the one of the education scenarios;
• storing, in the computer storage, a child user's history in viewing the education scenarios, input from the child user during the presentation of the education scenarios, and an assessment of the child user's competencies in social emotional skills;
• and
• assessing, by an intelligence module, the child user's competencies in social emotional skills based on the input from the child user during the presentation of the education scenarios.

A computer-implemented method for providing social emotional education, comprising:

• quantitatively defining a plurality of competencies for social emotional learning in a social emotional space that include three or more dimensions;
• determining a child user's initial state of competency as an initial location in the social emotional space by an intelligence module in a network-based system;
• setting a goal for social emotional competence for the child user as a destination location in the social emotional space;
• creating a development path in the social emotional space at least in part with the assistance of the intelligence module;
• providing education scenarios for the plurality of competencies for the child user to practice, wherein at least one of the education scenarios includes an interactive multi-media simulation of a real life situation that involves at least one child character;
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• monitoring the child user's progress along the development path by the intelligence module.