Learning by doing is a central way in which people acquire substantial expertise. It offers a number of advantages over other learning approaches. Most important, it avoids many aspects of the “inert knowledge” problem. Because principles are acquired through experience, the terms used to state those principles have clear referential meaning, at least within the scope of that experience. Learni...

This paper examines firm strategy when competitors are at different points along the learning curve. It shows that firms high on the learning curve will have strong incentives to exclude new competitors, while firms that are learning more slowly will have weaker incentives to hinder new competitors and may even wish to encourage entry. The same strategies are shown to apply when firm reputation...

The papers in this Special Issue of Educational Technology and Society are extensions of presentations given at the 1999 Texas Distance Learning Association (TxDLA) Annual Conference held April 5-8, 1999, in Waco, Texas, U.S.A. TxDLA is pleased that our collaboration with IFETS has afforded the opportunity to present these papers for publication in their official Journal. The eight extended pap...

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Talerum is an interactive L2 learning environment, here presented publicly for the first time. Talerum is designed for use in Danish language classes throughout the vast and sparsely populated WestNordic area. In a town-like setting (resembling Copenhagen) the pupil navigates among shops (foods, clothes, tools), a cafe, a school and, importantly, a home base where the game opens and the pupil i...

This paper describes a program that learns procedures b\ examining worked-out examples in a textbook and bv working problems I wo kinds of production (If-then) rules are created: working forward rules that produce an action when a proceduie is executed and difference rules that suggest operators from observed transformations. Dining example learning, the program examines two states in an exampl...

New technologies, such as multi-touch tables, increasingly provide shareable interfaces where multiple people can simultaneously interact, enabling co-located groups to collaborate more flexibly than using single personal computers. Soon, these technologies will make their way into the classroom. However, little is known about what kinds of learning activities they will effectively support that...

CIRANO Le CIRANO est un organisme sans but lucratif constitué en vertu de la Loi des compagnies du Québec. Le financement de son infrastructure et de ses activités de recherche provient des cotisations de ses organisations-membres, d'une subvention d'infrastructure du Ministère du Développement économique et régional et de la Recherche, de même que des subventions et mandats obtenus par ses équ...

This study brings together insights from the research literatures on organisational capabilities and learning by doing to examine the response of Irish manufacturers to tightened environmental regulation in the 1990s. Using a fine-grained data set on firms’ technology and management practices, we test whether those practices over time resulted in the creation of learned ‘static’ capabilities, t...

This article investigates the design of incentives in a dynamic adverse selection framework where agents' production technologies display learning effects and agents' learning rates are private knowledge. In a simple two-period model with full commitment available to the principal, we show that whether learning effects are overor underexploited crucially depends on whether more efficient agents...