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Minerva
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Minerva is an e-learning tool intended to help in the study of any topic when it's necessary to memorize any kind of information.
Minerva lets the student create "study books" with "cards" (also called records, organized into subjets), each card with a question and an answer (and other related data), which will be asked to the student according to some criteria controlled by the user.
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The first version of Minerva was developed in 1999 and, since then, the program has evolved around four fundamental ideas, basis for learning:
- It uses previously known stimulus, like the images associated with every question, that makes it easier to memorize.
- Re-learning: the already known material is easier to memorize the second time it's studied. Minerva not only asks each record (each question) two times, but it follows the evolution of every record, asking it as often as necessary so as to be sure that it has been correctly memorized. And even when a record is considered memorized, Minerva does periodic reviews to be sure that it isn't forgotten.
- Overlearning is avoided, as long as it means that the student won't be able to memorized the information being studied, but without limiting his/her capacity of learning: Minerva expands the set of records to be asked as far as the student manages to memorize the information, so in practice it's the student, not the program, who sets the rhythm of the study.
- The student is involved in the process of learning, showing him/her data (and charts) so as to see the evolution of the study: age of the books, right answers percentage, etc.
Minerva's objective is to help the student memorize all the cards, adapting its behaviour at all times to the student's evolution, taking maximum advantage of his/her time.
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