Students as Apprentice Historians

The Clinical Apprentice: A Guide for Students of Medicine

Roman Poets as Literary Historians Some Aspects of Imitatio ^

Literary history — like the history of any art — involves a special difficulty; it is that of reconciling a general scheme of development and a linear movement in time with the problem of the individual genius who creates new things. That has not been made easier in recent years when New Critics tried to expel the writer from the text, and then Deconstructionists called the very existence of th...

The Sourcerer’s Apprentice

This assignment considers the use of the apprenticeship model of teaching in academic subject areas. This has been investigated by various authors since 1989. I will consider the various flavours of the techniques presented and some of the practical implications of these. I will draw from our experience running several courses where students undertake business like projects within a protective ...

Apprentice Program: Linear Algebra

Definition 1.1. Let K be a field. (V,+, ·) is a vector space over K, if (V,+) is an Abelian group, and · : K × V → V (called scalar multiplication) is distributive, associative and multiplication by 1 is the identity on V . This compact definition unwinds to give us the following ten(!) axioms: (1) + : V × V → V (2) u+ (v + w) = (u+ v) + w. (3) u+ v = v + u. (4) ∃0 ∈ V such that v + 0 = 0 + v =...

The Virtual Apprentice

Over the past couple of decades, virtual humans have been attracting more and more attention. Many applications including, video games, movies, and various training and tutoring systems have benefited from work in this area. While the visual quality of virtual agents has improved dramatically, their intelligence and socialization still needs improvement. In this paper, we present work towards e...