Talk:Spaced learning

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I would be grateful for any commments that would improve the page, or relate it to other research.
 * Is this the same thing is spaced repetition learning? They got a page for that already. Dream Focus (talk) 22:35, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

No, it isn't. However, the idea of having spaces between learning experiences is, as mentioned in the article, something that has been raised in a number of different contexts. What is different in spaced learning is that it is based on a new neuroscientific discovery about cellular activity in learning (which, in the end, is really a question of DNA)- see Fields's article in Scientific American. This means that the spaces- and number of spaces- is clearly determined by cellular kinetics.

From the two articles, it looks to me that spaced learning has only 2 spaces of exactly 10 minutes, whereas spaced repetition has the gaps starting small and increasing. In spaced repetition, the gaps can be measured in minutes or days - the main thing is they start small and increase. Graduated interval recall is a specific kind of spaced repetition used in Pimsleur language-learning etc and it is mainly done over seconds and minutes (and again the spaces start small and increase). It seems to me that these things are not the same, but are related. I'm not sure if there's an umbrella term that would catch all of them. And if Talk:Spaced repetition is anything to go by, I'm really not sure if the maintainers of the spaced repetition article would appreciate the addition of material that is not strictly to do with spaced repetition but instead is to do with a related technique, so perhaps it's best to keep spaced repetition, spaced learning and graduated interval recall as separate articles that refer to each other. Silas S. Brown (talk) 19:09, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I agree with the above. The distinction between the two is quite clear in another way: spaced learning is based on the biochemical process of creating long term memory, as demonstated in a range of experiments. Spaced repetition has no basis on a biochemical level. I understand the temptation to link them, but I think there isn't a real link- except the word 'space'. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Monkseatonpaul (talk • contribs) 19:31, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

There is no consensus for a merger. Colonel Warden (talk) 23:03, 13 February 2009 (UTC)


 * By Jove!! "spaced learning is based on the biochemical process of creating long term memory" is either forbidden biochemical experiments or sales mumbo-jumbo. Everybody know that our brains are biochemical! Rursus dixit. ( m bork3 !) 07:13, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

Comment above
Will take your advice- thanks for that. Monkseatonpaul (aka Paul)Monkseatonpaul (talk) 08:46, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Cleanup needed
The article needs more headings, more inline citations in the text, and some more about how it differs from simple rehersal methods almost universally used in third world schools. We have known of rehersal in centuries – it is the oldest method. Rursus dixit. ( m bork3 !) 07:10, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

Ebbinghaus
Someone needs to reference Hermann Ebbinghaus. I'm afraid I just don't have time but Ebbinghaus should receive credit for really being the first to discover/show that spaced and mass training have differential effects on long-term memory (this was ca. 1885) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.61.190.13 (talk) 17:36, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

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