Changes between Version 36 and Version 37 of BoltIntro

Timestamp:

Aug 14, 2008, 9:20:52 AM (16 years ago)

Author:

davea

Comment:

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BoltIntro

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 and computes and records their exercise scores.
 
-However, the strength of Bolt is its support for '''evolutionary adaptive courses'''.
+Bolt supports '''evolutionary adaptive courses'''.
 Such a course evolves over time.
 At any point, it may contain any number of '''micro-experiments'''
-that estimate and compare the effectiveness of alternative lessons.
+to compare the effectiveness of alternative lessons.
 On the basis of experimental outcomes,
 lessons may be changed, added, or discarded.
 The course may be made 'adaptive' so that different materials
 are shown to different types of students.
+
 Thus, Bolt is ideal for developing online learning materials
 in situations where there is a constant arrival of diverse students,
-and in which course developers have the need and ability to continually
+and in which you have the need and ability to continually
 analyze and improve the effectiveness of the materials.
 
 Bolt is implemented in PHP (a popular scripting language).
-If you know PHP, it's easy to add new features to Bolt
-(but you don't need to know PHP to use Bolt).
+You don't need to know PHP to use Bolt,
+but if you do it's easy to add new features to Bolt.
+
 
  * [BoltTutorial Tutorial]
   * [BoltTutorial Part I: Courses and lessons]
-  * [BoltTutorialExercises Part II: Exercises]
-  * [BoltTutorialAnalytics Part III: Analytics]
+  * [BoltTutorialExercises Part II: Exercises, review, and refresh]
+  * [BoltTutorialAnalytics Part III: Experiments and analytic tools]
 
  * [BoltRef Reference manual]
@@ -35 +37 @@
  * [BoltAnalytics Analytics]
 
- * [BoltImpl Implementation]
+ * [BoltImpl Implementation notes]
 
  * [BoltGoals Context and goals]