AED News AED meetings are on alternate Thursday evenings at 7 p.m. in the medical school auditorium. April 6, 2001. This spring term, South Alabama started a SI program with a trial run of 15 courses. SI was developed in 1973 at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. SI study sessions are informal seminars in which students form a learning community to compare notes, discuss readings, develop organizational tools and predict test items.
Students learn how to integrate course content and reasoning skills.
The SI sessions are directed by 'SI leaders,' usually students who have previously and successfully taken the 'high-risk' course, and then sit through the course again. The SI leader acts as a model student of the discipline. Students who attend the SI session discover appropriate application of study strategies as they review content material. SI sessions are attended on a voluntary basis and no effort is made to segregate students based on academic ability. SI is not viewed as remedial.