AI/LEARN: an interactive videodisk system for teaching medical concepts and reasoning.
This paper describes AI/LEARN, an educational videodisk system designed to teach clinical observational skills and reasoning in medicine. The AI/LEARN system uses a learning conditions approach to teaching. To teach visual concepts, we use the principle of exemplar/nonexemplar pairs and immediate feedback. To teach If-Then problem solving we use the format of minicases with delayed feedback. The software to operate the system has been custom developed and is domain independent. The result is a prototype of a new authoring package for videodisk teaching which operates on IBM compatible microcomputers. The medical domain selected for this prototype system was rheumatic diseases; the knowledge used to teach reasoning skills is derived from the knowledge base of an expert system: AI/RHEUM.
Mitchell
J A
JA
Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia 65211.
Lee
A S
AS
TenBrink
T
T
Cutts
J H
JH
Clark
D P
DP
Hazelwood
S
S
Jackson
R
R
Bickel
J
J
Gaunt
W
W
Ladenson
R P
RP
D003199:Computer Systems; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D004501:Education, Medical; D005103:Expert Systems; D014741:Video Recording; D014742:Videodisc Recording