“My Best Memory Is When I Was Done with It”

When Is It Best to Learn with All Worked Examples?

Worked examples have repeatedly demonstrated learning benefits in a range of studies, particularly with low prior knowledge students and when the examples are presented in alternating fashion with problems to solve. Recently, worked examples alternating with intelligently-tutored problems have been shown to provide at least as much learning benefit to students as all tutored problems, with the ...

When I my received my M

This article intends to discuss Information Technology diploma programs as an alternate means of educating systems librarians and preparing them for the new challenges faced by library systems offices. The first section outlines my own experience marrying an MLIS with a Graduate Diploma in Information Technology as a means of moving into systems librarianship. The second discusses the applicati...

My Brain is Full: When More Memory Helps

We consider the problem of finding good finite-horizon policies for POMDPs under the expected reward metric. The policies con­ sidered are free finite-memory policies with limited memory; a policy is a mapping from the space of observation-memory pairs to the space of action-memory pairs (the policy up­ dates the memory as it goes), and the num­ ber of possible memory states is a parameter of t...

The cards I was dealt: my life with familial hypercholesterolemia.

When I Was a Patient

This account of her experiences as a patient in a mental hospital has been sent to Mental Health by Susan X. We cannot, of course, print her name in full.