Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Synchronous learning
Multi-site learning (distance education) in which learners are linked to their instructor(s) by chat and audio conferencing software so that they can ask questions and receive feedback in real time.
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Motor learning
The processes related to the acquisition and retention of skills associated with movement. They are influenced by practice, experience, and memory.
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Lifelong learning
Learning that continues after formal education ends and fosters professional, intellectual, esthetic, social, and leadership skills.
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Implicit learning
Learning that takes place without directions or deliberate instruction.
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Explicit learning
Learning that results from clearly stated directions or instructions.
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Asynchronous learning
A method of instruction in which students access course material and engage with instructors and other students from geographically disparate locations or at different times. Techniques in asynchronous learning include on-line chats, threaded discussions, or self-directed learning modules. Before the world wide web, asynchronous learning was called correspondence education.
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Learned nonuse
Behavior sometimes observed in patients with hemiparesis in whom functional use of the paralyzed arm is avoided after unsuccessful attempts to use it. This phenomenon may represent a special application of learned helplessness.
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Leapfrog group
An initiative driven by Fortune 500 companies and other large private and public health care purchasers working to initiate breakthrough improvements in the safety, quality, and affordability of health care through technology.
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Leakage current
In electrosurgery current that flows toward a ground along a path that the surgeon did not intend.
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Lead optimization
The synthetic refinement of a candidate drug from its crude or original state into an agent that is safer, more useful, or more marketable.
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