Figure 5: An example of the Japanese Hiragana confuser in a quiz. CertificatesConfuser.PNG
Figure 6: An example of the Japanese Kanji confuser in a quiz.
Tracking Progress
When learning a language, students want to know how much they’ve learned. There’s no one better to ask how much a user knows than the user itself, so naturally the progress that a user has made on a deck is based on the difficulty that they have given to each card in it.
Calculating Progress for students When a student selects a difficulty, what’s really happening is that the student is getting a number of points for a particular card. The points are as follows: …show more content…
This allows the researcher to investigate questions such as ‘does algorithm selection impact how quickly users learn flashcards’ or ‘do customizations correlate with increased quiz scores’ or any other avenue the researcher sees fit to pursue.
Conclusion
OpenFluency is an Open source free application that adopts multiple proven flashcard language learning tools, and incorporates them into a single platform. The efficiency of many elements of OpenFluency’s core functionality (e.g. spaced-repetition algorithms in flashcards) is supported by sound research. Each element, by itself, does not provide the optimal flashcard learning environment or experience. But, this application seeks to maximize the benefit of each individual tool or learning method it employs, by incorporating a design in which its components mutually complement.
OpenFluency is also convenient. It takes the best ideas from multiple related platforms and puts them together into a robust easy to install, easy to use, easy to extend
Figure 6: An example of the Japanese Kanji confuser in a quiz.
Tracking Progress
When learning a language, students want to know how much they’ve learned. There’s no one better to ask how much a user knows than the user itself, so naturally the progress that a user has made on a deck is based on the difficulty that they have given to each card in it.
Calculating Progress for students When a student selects a difficulty, what’s really happening is that the student is getting a number of points for a particular card. The points are as follows: …show more content…
This allows the researcher to investigate questions such as ‘does algorithm selection impact how quickly users learn flashcards’ or ‘do customizations correlate with increased quiz scores’ or any other avenue the researcher sees fit to pursue.
Conclusion
OpenFluency is an Open source free application that adopts multiple proven flashcard language learning tools, and incorporates them into a single platform. The efficiency of many elements of OpenFluency’s core functionality (e.g. spaced-repetition algorithms in flashcards) is supported by sound research. Each element, by itself, does not provide the optimal flashcard learning environment or experience. But, this application seeks to maximize the benefit of each individual tool or learning method it employs, by incorporating a design in which its components mutually complement.
OpenFluency is also convenient. It takes the best ideas from multiple related platforms and puts them together into a robust easy to install, easy to use, easy to extend