Word: computerizes
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Although apprenticeship can be a highly effective tool, it requires greater personal involvement and a deeper understanding of the subject matter than most conventional teaching methods. To help make up for the shortage of professionals skilled in this technique, educators look to a new generation of computer-based teaching tools...
"The Radcliffe resources are increasingly used by the Harvard community," King says--a fact she attributes in part to the new HOLLIS computer system, which gives users access to a wider range of University library holdings.
"There is a sense among us that we need to do a better job in teaching people how to think using quantitative methods far beyond what the present requirement actually defines," says McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis, who is a member of the QRR committee.
QRR faculty made both tests more difficult this year, and as a result more than 300 people failed the computer test, up from fewer than 100 last year, according to QRR officials. But they stress that the harder tests are not the answer.
Later this year Aprex, a company based in Fremont, Calif., will begin marketing a high-tech medicine bottle designed to help doctors make sure that patients obey orders. Called MEMS (for medication event monitoring system), the container comes with a tiny computer chip embedded in its cap. When the patient...