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    66and is designed to meet the needs of:
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    8  * Skill aggregation project, in which volunteers must be trained to perform various tasks;
    9  * Volunteer computing, in which educating participants can increase their enthusiasm and commitment.
     8 * Skill aggregation projects, where volunteers must be trained to perform various tasks;
     9 * Volunteer computing projects, where educating participants can increase their enthusiasm and commitment.
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    1111These areas have properties that are much different from those of formal education:
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    13  * Churn: constant turnover, thousands of new students per day
    14  * Wide geographical distribution
    15  * Wide age distribution
    16  * Motivation: most volunteers have a pre-existing interest in the topic, and are motivated by acknowledgement (e.g. being marked as an "expert" on the project web site)
     13 * Churn: constant turnover, thousands of new students per day;
     14 * Wide geographical distribution;
     15 * Wide age distribution;
     16 * Motivation: most volunteers have a pre-existing interest in the topic, and are motivated by acknowledgement (e.g. being marked as an "expert" on the project web site).
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    1818== What Bolt does ==
     
    2020Using Bolt, you can
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    22  * Create exercises or quizzes of various types: multiple-choice, fill in the blank, graphical, etc.
    23  * Specify a ''course'' as a sequence of alternating lessons and exercises.
     22 * Create exercises of various types: multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, graphical, etc.
     23 * Specify a ''course'' as a sequence of lessons and exercises.
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    2525Given such a course, Bolt does the following:
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    27  * Guide students sequentially through the course;
    28  * If the student fails a quiz, repeat one or more lessons and retry the quiz (Bolt courses are designed to be "fail-proof");
    29  * Store each student's progress in a database, and resume at that point when they return to the course later.
    30  * Maintain an estimate of each student's mastery of the course material.
     27 * It guides students sequentially through the course;
     28 * If the student fails a quiz, they repeat one or more lessons and retry the quiz (Bolt courses are designed to be "fail-proof");
     29 * Each student's progress is recorded in a database, and when they return to the course later they resume at that point.
     30 * Bolt maintain an estimate of each student's mastery of the course material.
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    32 Bolt's deeper goal is to let you create better courses:
    33 to find out exactly how effective each lesson is,
    34 to make statistically valid comparisons of alternative lessons,
    35 and to make "adaptive" courses in which different lessons are used
    36 for different groups of students.
     32In addition, Bolt lets you create better courses; specifically, you can
     33 * find out exactly how effective each lesson is;
     34 * make statistically valid comparisons of alternative lessons;
     35 * make "adaptive" courses in which different lessons are used for different groups of students
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    3737This is done as follows:
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