Changes between Version 19 and Version 20 of BoltIntro

Timestamp:

Dec 1, 2007, 1:42:01 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

davea

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 = Berkeley Open Learning Technology (Bolt) =
 
-Bolt is a software infrastructure for creating web-based training courses,
-and is designed to meet the needs of:
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- * Distributed thinking projects: volunteers must be trained to perform various tasks.
- * Volunteer computing projects: educating participants can increase their enthusiasm and commitment, and attainment of given knowledge levels can be shown as a web site "status symbol".
+Bolt is a software infrastructure for creating web-based training courses.
+It is designed to meet the needs of:
+
+ * Distributed thinking projects, in which volunteers must be trained to perform various tasks.
+ * Volunteer computing projects, in which educating participants can increase their enthusiasm and commitment.
 
 These areas have the following properties:
 
- * Churn: constant turnover, thousands of new students per day;
+ * Churn: constant turnover (scores or hundreds of new students per day);
  * Wide geographical distribution;
  * Wide age distribution;
- * Motivation: most volunteers have a pre-existing interest in the topic, and are motivated by acknowledgement (e.g. being marked as an "expert" on the project web site).
+ * Motivation: most volunteers have a pre-existing interest in the topic, and are motivated by recognition (e.g. being marked as an "expert" on the project web site).
 
 == What Bolt does ==
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 == Creating exercises ==
 
-An exercise is a PHP script.
+A Bolt exercise is a PHP script.
 Here's an example consisting of a multiple-choice question:
 {{{
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 Each time the question is shown,
 the choices are shown in a random order.
-The correct choice is always the first element of the array.
+The correct choice is the first element of the array.
 
 Here's an example that shows an image;