background:     purpose:     methods:     results:     conclusion:     key words     journal of medical education summer   2004;5(2):59-61 our results warrant a more attentive approach to clinical skills (specially procedural skills) training all 250 interns who were eligible participated. over all 46.60% interns learned their clinical skills from residents or clinical teachers, 29.61% observed...

1 Learning from experience Innovation in the NHS is now being driven regionally by strategic health authorities. Learning how other national and international organisations have approached, planned and embedded innovation will help SHAs foster a culture of innovation. This overview outlines key evidence about what has worked well and what has been challenging elsewhere in adopting and dissemina...

Searching the space of policies directly for the optimal policy has been one popular method for solving partially observable reinforcement learning problems. Typically, with each change of the target policy, its value is estimated from the results of following that very policy. This requires a large number of interactions with the environment as different polices are considered. We present a fa...

This paper reviews the way experience has been understood and the research agendas associated with that understanding in networked learning. In the contemporary context the student 'experience' is part of common speech and often associated with a consumerist discourse, especially in the UK and US. The widespread use of digital and networked technologies in education has also given rise to a dec...

There is substantial academic interest in modeling consumer experiential learning. However, (approximately) optimal solutions to forward-looking experiential learning problems are complex, limiting their behavioral plausibility and empirical feasibility. We propose that consumers use cognitively simple heuristic strategies. We explore one viable heuristic – index strategies, and demonstrate tha...

A four-year project to build capacity in developing and transition countries to participate effectively in the Biosafety Clearing-House (BCH) has resulted in a well-trained and effective team of BCH Regional Advisors, an extensive and continually improving body of training materials, and a growing number of participating countries. Throughout the project, the training and the materials have inc...

The availability of technology has seen the development of online asynchronous discussion boards for use in teaching and learning. This paper explores the use of this medium within a second year undergraduate business course at the University of South Australia to supplement traditional delivery methods as well as showing how this medium can be used to enhance the development of communication, ...

Prompted by evidence that the recently-adopted arrangements for ongoing eduction among established general practitioners are unsatisfactory, the first of a pair of papers examined the theoretical basis of continuing education for general practice and proposed a model of selfdirected learning in which the experience of established practitioners is connected, through the media of reading, reflect...

Increasing interest is now focused on how adults learn from experience, but there is no adequate framework to assist learners and those who facilitate learning promote learning in the midst of experience. This paper provides a way of conceptualising experiencebased learning which considers the personal foundation of experience of learners, their intent and their interaction with a learning mili...

A case histories course was introduced into the CEE curriculum at University of Louisville in fall 2004, to address various specialties and to synthesize what the students from various specializations learned in different courses. The course, patterned after a course taught by Dr. Ralph B. Peck at the University of Illinois, satisfies many ABET course outcomes and educational objectives. By inv...