Still worse than a computer, since they can’t take feedback on words that you’ve learned better. It only works if your learning rates for different words are what the tape maker expected.
Also this won’t work for the end run of spaced repetition where a well-practiced card might pop up a year after it was last reviewed. The long-lived cards are going to be a very eclectic mix. Then again, school courses usually don’t expect you to retain the stuff from each course past the duration of the course, so this isn’t that much of a shortcoming for education.
Still worse than a computer, since they can’t take feedback on words that you’ve learned better. It only works if your learning rates for different words are what the tape maker expected.
Also this won’t work for the end run of spaced repetition where a well-practiced card might pop up a year after it was last reviewed. The long-lived cards are going to be a very eclectic mix. Then again, school courses usually don’t expect you to retain the stuff from each course past the duration of the course, so this isn’t that much of a shortcoming for education.