Various methods have been proposed in the past to improve student learning by introducing new styles of working with assignments. These include problembased learning, use of case studies and apprenticeship. In most courses, however, these proposals have not resulted in a widespread significant change of teaching methods. Most institutions still use a traditional lecture/lab class approach with ...

Several attempts have been made to produce tools which will help the programmer of complex computer systems. A new approach is proposed which integrates the programmer's intenttons, the program code, and the comments, by relating them to a knowledge base of programming techniques. Our research will extend the work of Sussman, Goldstein, and Hewitt on program descrtption and annotation. A protot...

Background in singing pedagogy. Singing teaching is commonly based on a master-apprentice model, relying on good modelling and feedback. Visual feedback technology (VFT) has been investigated as a tool in singing teaching by a number of researchers and its benefits for skills learning long advocated. However, its uptake in the singing teaching community has been slow, partly because of the cost...

To complement the learning process, this paper presents a process for building personal knowledge through exchanging knowledge chains in learning communities. The process differential is the addition of “how to use” the available knowledge to its authors (who), localization (where), and content (what), that are commonly used. The hypothesis is that the apprentice will achieve a reduction in the...

Disciple is a learning agent shell and methodology for efficient development of personal agents. The process of developing an agent with Disciple relies on importing ontologies from existing repositories of knowledge and on teaching the agent to perform various tasks in a way that resembles how an expert would teach an apprentice, by giving the agent examples and explanations, and by supervisin...

Cake is a hybrid system which provides reasoning facilities for the Programmer's Apprentice. This paper describes the architecture of Cake, which is divided into eight layers, each with associated representations and reasoning procedures. The operation of Cake is illustrated by a complete trace of the solution of an example reasoning problem. We also argue that a hybrid system in general is cha...