Helping students to become capable learners

Helping nephrologists become lifelong learners.

Ronald J. Falk,* Mark E. Rosenberg, Jerry Yee, Patrick T. Murray, and Tod Ibrahim *University of North Carolina Kidney Center and Division of Nephrology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Division of Nephrology, University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Division of Nephrology, Henry Ford Health Systems, Detroit, Michigan; Uni...

Helping Students Become Skilled Practitioners

Becoming a skilled practitioner means learning both conceptual and process knowledge. We propose the use of hypermedia to provide components of an apprenticeship learning model for students, in which process and conceptual knowledge learning is integrated. Our model for this use of hypermedia is called an Apprenticeship Based Learning Environment (ABLE). We present seven design principles for a...

Helping Learners to Understand Themselves with a Learner Model Open to Students, Peers and Instructors

This paper introduces work in progress on an open student model designed to help learners to better understand their learning. The aim of the system is to investigate issues relevant to open learner models in a large-scale, real use context. This will be achieved initially through the deployment of a simple, domain-independent system. The student model is inspectable by the student it represent...

Helping children become qualitative modelers

Early science education is essentially qualitative. Children must learn causal theories: what kinds of things happen, when they happen, and what their consequences are. Although modeling is a key skill in scientific reasoning, traditional modeling techniques do not express causal theories explicitly, and rely on higher mathematics (such as algebra) that children do not learn until later. We bel...

Clinical uncertainty: helping our learners.