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In a hospital, clinical teachers must also care for patients, so there is less time for the teaching of clinical courses, or for discussing clinical cases with interns. However, electronic learning (e-learning) can complement clinical skills education for interns in a blended-learning process. Students discuss and interact with classmates in an e-learning collaborative environment. E-learning can assist clinical training and provides a collaborative environment, but every student has individual learning preferences on the e-learning platform. A typical platform, such as a learning management system (LMS) does not provide individual learning activities for every student. This paper clusters students into two groups: active and inactive groups. In each group, students' learning behavior patterns, i.e., the association rules for activities, are derived from the transaction data for the LMS. The cluster to which a student belongs defines the online learning behaviors, from the activity association rules. The method then provides individual preferred activities. Teachers instruct students in accordance with their aptitude, as derived from the learning behavior pattern. The cluster analysis shows that students in active group often view teaching videos after completing feedback. Students in the inactive group often view teaching materials after adding posts on a forum. [For the complete proceedings, see ED557189.]

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert