Encouraging students to develop lifelong learning

Encouraging students to develop lifelong learning.

Encouraging medical students to pursue general practice.

to assess whether introducing beta-blockade immediately prior to surgery and continuing it for 30 days reduced the risk of cardiac events in patients at risk of, or with, coronary artery disease, vascular disease, previous stroke, etc. In POISE, about 60% of patients had a history of hypertension, but there are no data on the quality of blood pressure control or the presence or absence of eleva...

Lifelong Machine Learning Lifelong Machine Learning

Lifelong machine learning (or lifelong learning) is an advanced machine learning paradigm that learns continuously, accumulates the knowledge learned in previous tasks, and uses it to help future learning. In the process, the learner becomes more and more knowledgeable and effective at learning. This learning ability is one of the hallmarks of human intelligence. However, the current dominant m...

Using concept maps to develop lifelong learning skills: A case study

By building on a cyclic model of lifelong learning that includes self awareness, self management, meta-learning and self monitoring, this paper reports on attempts to introduce lifelong learning skills to a class of second year engineering students. The unit taught in this case study is Physical Electronics 203. Concept maps, student generated assessment criteria, group interaction and peer ass...

Lifelong Learning for Lifelong Employment

SOMEONE ASKED ME recently, “How do we keep 40-year-old software developers employed?” At rst I was puzzled. I had little clue this was a problem. Isn’t there more demand than supply for software developers? However, imagine a software developer who graduates from a good engineering school and gets a good job in a large high-tech company. He marries and raises a family, is good at barbecue, runs...