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Background: BYU has developed proprietary software that is being used in university courses to help students approach problems like experts do. The technology, called Decision-Based Learning, is based on a process of creating a model of expert decision-making in a content domain. Content knowledge is organized and associated with decision points within an expert decision model. Learners are presented a scenario that requires them to make one or more decisions in order to reach the next decision point, and so on until they reach problem resolution. Learners who cannot proceed due to lack of knowledge or procedural skill access the content knowledge or practice the procedure at the associated decision point in order to make an "expert" decision. it is expected that learners will repeat the process multiple times with different scenarios until proficiency is achieved.