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Re:A system to help you remember more of what you read by QasimK on Sunday July 01, 2018 @05:33AM (#17434844)
What is distributed learning? Is it spaced repetition?
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Re:A system to help you remember more of what you read by repsak on Sunday July 01, 2018 @09:17AM (#17435483)
It just means distributing your learning trough time, so basically the opposite of cramming.

I guess spaced repetition can be seen as a combination of distributed learning and practice testing.

I got the terminology from here

http://journals.sagepub.com/stoken/rbtfl/Z10jaVH/60XQM/full

Here is a nice summary of the results

http://journals.sagepub.com/na101/home/literatum/publisher/s...

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