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This
is the page for the "administration" of all the other pages on this entire web
site. This web site is the internet place where a "student" can examine,
purchase and take electronic courses. These electronic courses feature
study material and quizzes developed by Karl Loren by use of a set of programs
called "Hot Potatoes"
and "Quandry" --
administered through a "Learning Management System." There is a "plan"
that describes how the Learning Management System was designed and developed.
These "electronic courses" are self-administered on the
web. Each course consists of some amount of "study material,"
"mazes" or
"quizzes." Once you have registered and paid for most of these
courses, you have
unlimited future access to that course. You can do the course at your own
convenience for schedule and time. Some courses charge a monthly fee for
continuing access to that type of course.
Interactivity And Repetition
The philosophical theme of these electronic courses is
"interactivity and repetition." These terms mean that the study material
is presented in a traditional written form (on your browser screen) which the
student reads. However, that study material is presented in small "chunks"
of data -- something like five or eight paragraphs of information.
After the student has read this small chunk of information
there are then presented one or more quizzes which are "interactive." They
present questions of various types and the student must "answer" the question on
his browser screen, then get an instant "score" for that question. The
student is inter-acting with the quiz as he reads a question, selects an answer,
gets an immediate score. Depending on that score, he either goes
back to re-study the study material, or goes on to the next question.
These courses are built on the premise that a student
learns best by reading a small amount of study material, and then immediately
doing a short quiz on that material. If he gets a 100% correct score on
all the questions in that short quiz, the presumption is that he has understood
the study material. However, the presumption of "understanding" is not
valid when and if the student guessed at his answers, or selected some wrong
answer and only then selected the right answer. So, the "100% correct
score" means that the student selects the correct answer on his first selection
for each question on the quiz.
The purpose of this type of learning
experience is to create that "understanding" of the material which is far
"deeper" than the norm of "study" found in society today. Today many
students go through school and do not learn at all, or learn something only
long enough to "pass" a test with a 60% score, but cannot remember or use that
material three days later.
These electronic courses represent a
revolution in the learning experience which most students have had.
Because this IS a revolutionary method of study the first experience with this
method is likely to seem strange to the student.
Nonetheless, this form of teaching has a
huge future potential, I believe.
The
Bush administration's new education plan requires schools to prove that their
children are learning math and reading, and are closing the achievement gap
between white and minority children. Already, states are reporting that
thousands of schools aren't meeting minimum learning goals and now face an
array of sanctions.
Companies that sell to the
schools -- from test publishers to tutoring services to teacher-training
outfits -- say business is booming as troubled districts turn to them for
help. (Source)
The student must come to accept that THIS method of
learning involves interactivity and repetition, as explained on this page.
The concept of "repetition" used in these courses means
that when the student has attained a 100% correct score on a quiz (all the
questions correct on the first selection) the learning experience is greatly
further enhanced by doing ANOTHER quiz on that same material. Generally we
have set the standard that the student must get each question correct, on his
first selection, on one quiz as the first level of
accomplishment.
Then, he takes another quiz (repetition), mostly different
questions, on the same material, and must also get a 100% score on that quiz.
Only when he has attained a 100% correct score each time, for TWO
successive quizzes, does he attain the
second level of accomplishment.
It would certainly be possible for a student to attain the
second level of accomplishment, then do the third quiz and get one wrong answer.
This would mean that he had to AGAIN achieve the first, then the second, level
of accomplishment before he could earn the third level of
accomplishment. If the study material is actually and fully
understood, the student should be able to get 100% correct scores every time he
does ANY quiz on that material. That is the standard of learning which is the
objective of these courses.
The standard is that the student will attain the
fifth level of accomplishment. This means
that he has taken five successive quizzes and scored 100% on each quiz.
Only then does he go on to the next "hunk" of study material.
You should, by now, begin to see the level of understanding
demanded in these courses. The final result, however, is a level of
understanding that is normally never attained by simple reading of the study
text.
These concepts of study, and learning, are, in fact, the
subject of the first course which every student is
strongly urged to take as his first course. That is a course on HOW to
study so that you can expect to get 100% correct scores on any number of quizzes
on ANY material where you apply this technology. This is a level of
expectation that is extremely rare in our society.
The most detailed presentation on the philosophy of course design and
scoring is HERE.
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