Al/LEARN  

Al/LEARN is an educational videodisc system designed to teach clinical observational skills and reasoning skills in medicine. The AI/LEARN system uses a learning conditions approach to teaching. To teach visual concepts, the system uses the principle of exemplar/nonexemplar pairs and immediate feedback. To teach If-Then problem solving it uses the format of minicases with delayed feedback.

The software to operate the system has been custom developed and is domain independent. The result is a prototype of a new authoring package for videodisc teaching that operates on IBM compatible microcomputers.

The medical domain selected for this prototype system was rheumatic diseases; the knowledge used to teach reasoning skills is derived from the knowledge base of an expert         system:Al/RHEUM.

Mitchell, J.A., et al., Al/LEARN: An interactive videodisc system forr teaching medical concepts and reasoning, Journall of Medical Systems, vol. 11, no.6, pp.421-429, December 1987,