System apparatus and method for maximizing effectiveness and efficiency of learning retaining and retrieving knowledge and skills

DETAILED DESCRIPTION To overcome the problems described above and to provide other significant and previously unattainable advantages, preferred embodiments of the present invention provide a system including various apparatuses and methods for maximizing the effectiveness and efficiency of learning, reviewing and retrieving knowledge and skills in an interactive and adaptive matter that minimizes the cognitive workload or mental effort of the user, while minimizing or eliminating forgetting of the knowledge or skills learned.
In addition, preferred embodiments of the present invention provide a system including apparatuses and methods for allowing a user to encode, store and retrieve knowledge and skills flexibly and efficiently in response to overt and covert inputs from the user or other sources of input information, such as a desired level of memory strength, the date when the knowledge or skills are needed, the schedule of availability to use the system and many other factors.
More specifically, preferred embodiments of the present invention provide a system including various apparatuses and methods for maximizing the ease of use of the system and maximizing the results of learning, retaining and retrieving of knowledge and skills by allowing a user, administrator or other input information source to interactively and flexibly input information to be learned, identify confusable items to be learned, select desired levels of initial learning and final retention of knowledge or skills, and input preferences regarding scheduling of learning, reviewing and testing and other input information relating to the learning, reviewing and testing of knowledge or skills.
Based on these and other input information, the system schedules operation of the learn, review and test operations in the most efficient way to guarantee that the user achieves the desired degree of learning within the desired time period.
Furthermore, preferred embodiments of the present invention provide a system including apparatuses and methods which include a Learn Module for presenting new knowledge or skills to a user, a Review Module for presenting previously learned knowledge or skills to a user in order to maintain a desired level of retention of the knowledge or skills learned previously, and a Test Module for testing of previously learned knowledge or skills