Changes between Version 23 and Version 24 of BoltIntro

Timestamp:

Dec 4, 2007, 9:12:37 AM (18 years ago)

Author:

davea

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BoltIntro

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 = Berkeley Open Learning Technology (Bolt) =
 
-Bolt is a software infrastructure for creating web-based courses.
+Bolt is a toolkit for web-based teaching and training.
+Its main features:
 
-[BoltGoals Goals]
+ * Bolt provides tools for statistically measuring and comparing the effectiveness of lessons, relative both to the entire student population and to subgroups based on demographics and other factors.
+ * Bolt provides tools for making courses adaptive, based on student characteristics.
+ * Bolt is based on PHP, a simple but powerful scripting language.
+
+Thus, Bolt is designed for educational contexts in which there
+is a constant arrival of diverse students,
+and in which course developers want to continually
+analyze and improve the effectiveness of the teaching materials.
 
 [BoltRef Reference manual]
 
+[BoltGoals Context and goals]
+
 [BoltAnalytics Analytics]
 
-[BoltImpl Implementation notes]
+[BoltImpl Implementation]