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by username3 5172 days ago
The Promise of Computer-Based Instruction

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3862903

Imagine a responsive system that negotiates the route between your present-state knowledge and skills and your (or your school’s or your job’s…) learning goals. Such a system requires a profile of your current knowledge and skills, a map of the declarative and procedural knowledge and skills that fulfill the learning goals, and a logic engine to reconcile the two.