Dr. B. Price Kerfoot

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  The research behind SpacedEd was developed by B. Price Kerfoot, an associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. His previous research had demonstrated that people are more likely to retain information when they see it periodically and are tested on their knowledge, rather than simply provided with reading material. Kerfoot said he has tested the method in more than a dozen trials with 7,000 medical students, doctors and other participants . Overall results have indicated that it helped them boost their knowledge and retain it for up to two years. In one study, two randomly divided groups of 240 physicians each took a course about clinical practice guidelines in urology. One group was presented a section of the material three times at spaced intervals over 20 weeks. By the end, that group demonstrated a 50 percent increase in knowledge of that material compared with the control group. Kerfoot said that the method has also proved to be an effective teaching tool for medical students from Baylor University, the University of Pittsburgh, Harvard and several other institutions. Beyond medicine, Kerfoot said its testing method can be applied to fields across higher education. SpacedEd currently has more than 2,000 users and two dozen courses, all of them free (though authors can charge and earn a slice of the revenue) and none of them for academic credit. Any registered user can construct lessons about anything, including non-science subjects like bartending, music theory and copyright law. Site administrators rely on users' comments to check for accuracy and clarity, Kerfoot said.
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  A colleague of Kerfoot, she said she does not usually use online education systems, but likes being able to embed images and audio on SpacedEd. Above all, she said, the site simplifies the learning process.
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  Those who took courses that combined online learning and face-to-face instruction performed best of all . The technology based on Kerfoot's research is patented by Harvard.

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  The method, called Spaced Education, was developed by Dr. B. Price Kerfoot, Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. It utilizes a simple question and answer format, delivered in short daily bursts to the learner and backed by a proprietary algorithm that adapts the content based on how an individual performs.
  
  "Our early studies showed that traditional online learning generates only limited long-term retention of knowledge and is poorly accepted by learners," said Dr. Kerfoot.
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  Proven in more than 10 peer-reviewed randomized controlled trials (RCT) led by Dr. Kerfoot, Spaced Education has been shown to change behavior and to be effective, efficient, and well-accepted by learners:
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  "In contrast to the standard 'binge-and-purge' approach to online education, Spaced Education presents content to the learner in small packets which are repeated over spaced intervals of time to improve long-term retention," said Kerfoot.
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  "Combined with the level of convenience and sheer addictive fun that SpacedEd brings to learning, we believe Dr. Kerfoot's work will fundamentally change the way the world learns."
  
  "Dr. Kerfoot's innovative learning method has been proven to increase retention and change behavior.

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  The method, called Spaced Education, was developed by Dr. B. Price Kerfoot, Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School.
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  Proven in more than 10 peer-reviewed randomized controlled trials led by Dr. Kerfoot, Spaced Education has been shown to change behavior and to be effective, efficient, and well-accepted by learners:

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  The method, called Spaced Education, was developed by Dr. B. Price Kerfoot, Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. It utilizes a simple question and answer format, delivered in short daily bursts to the learner and backed by a proprietary algorithm that adapts the content based on how an individual performs.
  
  "Our early studies showed that traditional online learning generates only limited long-term retention of knowledge and is poorly accepted by learners," said Dr. Kerfoot.
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  Proven in more than 10 peer-reviewed randomized controlled trials led by Dr. Kerfoot, Spaced Education has been shown to change behavior and to be effective, efficient, and well-accepted by learners:
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  "In contrast to the standard 'binge-and-purge' approach to online education, Spaced Education presents content to the learner in small packets which are repeated over spaced intervals of time to improve long-term retention," said Kerfoot.
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  "Combined with the level of convenience and sheer addictive fun that SpacedEd brings to learning, we believe Dr. Kerfoot's work will fundamentally change the way the world learns."
  
  "Dr. Kerfoot's innovative learning method has been proven to increase retention and change behavior.

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  Combined with the level of convenience and sheer addictive fun that SpacedEd brings to learning, we believe Dr. Kerfoot's work will fundamentally change the way the world learns.
  
  Dr. Kerfoot's innovative learning method has been proven to increase retention and change behavior. It is ideal for today's social and increasingly mobile online world, and represents but one example of a variety of timely research initiatives being advanced across our campus, benefiting society and researchers alike
  
  Cambridge, MA ( PRWEB) July 7, 2009 -- Spaced Education, Inc has signed an exclusive license agreement with Harvard University for a new learning technology that was developed and used at Harvard Medical School.
  
  The method, called Spaced Education, was developed by Dr. B. Price Kerfoot, Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. It utilizes a simple question and answer format, delivered in short daily bursts to the learner and backed by a proprietary algorithm that adapts the content based on how an individual performs.
  
  "Our early studies showed that traditional online learning generates only limited long-term retention of knowledge and is poorly accepted by learners," said Dr. Kerfoot.
  ...
  Proven in more than 10 peer-reviewed randomized controlled trials (RCT) led by Dr. Kerfoot, Spaced Education has been shown to change behavior and to be effective, efficient, and well-accepted by learners:
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  "In contrast to the standard 'binge-and-purge' approach to online education, Spaced Education presents content to the learner in small packets which are repeated over spaced intervals of time to improve long-term retention," said Kerfoot.
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  "Combined with the level of convenience and sheer addictive fun that SpacedEd brings to learning, we believe Dr. Kerfoot's work will fundamentally change the way the world learns."
  
  "Dr. Kerfoot's innovative learning method has been proven to increase retention and change behavior.

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  Spaced education is a novel method of online education developed and rigorously investigated by Dr. B. Price Kerfoot (Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School). It is based upon two core psychology research findings: the spacing effect and the testing effect.

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  Spaced education is a novel method of online education based upon two core psychology research findings: the spacing effect and the testing effect . Spaced education was initially developed and then rigorously studied by Dr. B. Price Kerfoot (Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School) as a method to improve the long-term knowledge retention of medical trainees.

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  Published on: 7/31/2007    Last Visited: 8/14/2007  

  But actually there's quite a bit of data to suggest otherwise," says Dr. B. Price Kerfoot, the lead author of the study and an assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School in Boston."In elderly gentlemen, where ultimately there is an abnormal test, they're at higher risk in terms of complications for many sorts of therapeutic or diagnostic procedures that result."
  
  Additionally, Kerfoot says many of the prostate tumours found in these elderly men would not be fatal."And so running the risk of incontinence and erectile dysfunction resulting from treatments for this cancer may be unnecessary."
  
  Kerfoot and his team studied more than 180,000 men and 4,800 health-care providers, including doctors, nurses and physician assistants.

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  B. Price Kerfoot, M.D.VA Boston Healthcare System/Harvard Medical School
  
  "Optimizing VA Healthcare Delivery Through Web-Based Interventions"

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  B. Price Kerfoot, MD, EdM Harvard Medical School

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