Method for establishing knowledge in long-term memory

A method for knowledge transfer, comprising accepting, via an interface of a computer-based educational system, a set of associative elements provided by a user of said educational system;

• and presenting to said user content included in said elements in one or more rehearsal cycles adapted to the user's demonstrated knowledge of said content during each of said rehearsal cycles.

A method comprising receiving content at a computer-based educational system from a first user, the content including of one or more sets of associative elements, each of which includes a first element and one or more elements associated with the first element;

• and automatically providing the content to a second user of the educational system according to a rehearsal schedule configured to determine which first elements of the one or more sets of associative elements to provide and at what frequency based upon the second user's past performance in choosing correct ones or more related elements associated with respective ones of the first elements.

A learning system, comprising a computer-readable storage medium containing sets of associated elements;

• an interface adapted to provide a user with access to the associated elements;
• and processor configured to operate under the control of computer-readable instructions for determining a next set of the associated elements to present to the user based on the user's performance with earlier sets of the associated elements, which performance is evidenced by the user's memorization of information embodied in said associated elements.

A computer-aided knowledge management process, comprising planning a learning process for a user, the learning process adapted to permit learning of one or more information elements by the user, and executing the learning process by interrogating the user with questions which the user would like to be able to answer, the answers to the questions being the information elements.

A computer-aided knowledge management process, comprising populating a knowledge store with information elements obtained from one or more knowledge experts;

• and interrogating a user via a question and answer session to determine the user's present knowledge level in a subject matter of the information elements.

A computer-based knowledge management process, comprising automatically and selectively presenting information elements for learning by a user through a question and answer session in which the user is interrogated in one or more cycles for learning subject matter represented by the information elements, and receiving feedback from the user regarding the content of questions and answers presented during the session.

A computer-based service, comprising an Internet host configured to facilitate storing of information elements in a knowledge store accessible by the Internet host, the information elements provided by any of:

• users of the computer-based service, subject matter experts, or a provider offering the computer-based service;
• and providing of the information elements to users of the computer-based service through question and answer sessions involving the users.