Hi all. I discovered Mnemosyne a few days ago, and have been testing it with the Spanish Vocabulary deck available on the website. I am interested in the concept of maximizing memory retention using optimized repetition scheme, and I am wondering about the following points: - Some cards from the downloadable decks are wrong: for instance, "Who is speaking (calling)? (on the phone)" is translated by "Que parte de quien?", which is not even correct Spanish (should be "De parte de quien?"). I did correct it in my deck, but is there an easy way to submit corrections to the original decks? Less important but still annoying, some cards are biased: for instance, "to rent" is translated as "adquilar", when the term "arentar" is also valid. - The self-evaluation is a shortcut, and might become the bottleneck of the learning optimisation: people who don't self-evaluate themselves accurately will learn less efficiently. Is the algorithm adapting to the signification of "3,4,5" for each user? Even if it was, I think that which button a user press depends of his/her mood is. Did anybody consider challenge based evaluation, for instance through multi-choice questions (which can still be done through flashcards, although it would be nice to have a special input interface for those cards)? - I see that Peter is in Academia, but that there is nothing close to ETeaching in his curriculum. Is there any venue where results on better teaching techniques obtained through the mean of programs such as Mnemosyne can be submitted, evaluated by peers, and hopefully published? Do some professor of university generate deck of cards from their course notes (would be easy to parse some lecture notes in LaTeX for some speciall tagged questions) for their students to revise the basic definitions of the course?
I always thought that we should develop better techniques for teaching/ learning. I am a bit troubled that Wozniak mostly self-experiment, it is nice to imagine that with Mnemosyne we can gather more data and better justify any conclusion we reach. I will continue to use Mnemosyne for at least a while (and keep uploading my usage data), hoping to improve my Spanish! JyBy --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
