Does anyone know if the actual software and contents for the digital tutor are published anywhere? I tried looking in the linked report but couldn’t find anything like that there. I am feeling a bit skeptical that the digital tutor was teaching anything difficult. Right now I can’t even tell if the digital tutor was doing something closer to “automate teaching people how to use MS Excel” (sounds believable) vs “automate teaching people real analysis given AP Calculus level knowledge of math” (sounds really hard, unless the people are already competent at self-studying).
I ran into this review of Accelerated Expertise about a book (on LG) about a Air Force/DoD thing that sounds very similar, and may give the overall paradigm.
Thanks. I read the linked book review but the goals seem pretty different (automating teaching with the Digital Tutor vs trying to quickly distill and convey expert experience (without attempting to automate anything) with the stuff in Accelerated Expertise). My personal interest in “science of learning” stuff is to make self-study of math (and other technical subjects) more enjoyable/rewarding/efficient/effective, so the emphasis on automation was a key part of why the Digital Tutor caught my attention. I probably won’t read through Accelerated Expertise, but I would be curious if anyone else finds anything interesting there.
I understood the problems to be of the sort one would learn in becoming whatever the Navy ship equivalent is to CISCO Administrator. It really seems to have been a training program for all the sys admin IT needs of a Navy ship.
Here are some examples of problems they had to solve:
Establish a fault-tolerant Windows domain called SOTF.navy.mil to support the Operation.
Install and configure an Exchange server for SOTF.navy.mil.
Establish Internet access for all internal client machines and servers.
Does anyone know if the actual software and contents for the digital tutor are published anywhere? I tried looking in the linked report but couldn’t find anything like that there. I am feeling a bit skeptical that the digital tutor was teaching anything difficult. Right now I can’t even tell if the digital tutor was doing something closer to “automate teaching people how to use MS Excel” (sounds believable) vs “automate teaching people real analysis given AP Calculus level knowledge of math” (sounds really hard, unless the people are already competent at self-studying).
I ran into this review of Accelerated Expertise about a book (on LG) about a Air Force/DoD thing that sounds very similar, and may give the overall paradigm.
Thanks. I read the linked book review but the goals seem pretty different (automating teaching with the Digital Tutor vs trying to quickly distill and convey expert experience (without attempting to automate anything) with the stuff in Accelerated Expertise). My personal interest in “science of learning” stuff is to make self-study of math (and other technical subjects) more enjoyable/rewarding/efficient/effective, so the emphasis on automation was a key part of why the Digital Tutor caught my attention. I probably won’t read through Accelerated Expertise, but I would be curious if anyone else finds anything interesting there.
I’ve not had success finding these details, unfortunately—I’ve been curious about them too.
I understood the problems to be of the sort one would learn in becoming whatever the Navy ship equivalent is to CISCO Administrator. It really seems to have been a training program for all the sys admin IT needs of a Navy ship.
Here are some examples of problems they had to solve: