Sentence examples for learners support from inspiring English sources

These seed learners support the elaboration of relationships with other medical practioners within selected disiplines labelling the CoP.

Critical to the success of the course was ownership by the learners, support from peers and learning by doing research and reflecting on experiences.

"By using social networking tools they may be familiar with from their leisure activities, students can interact with each other in online communities, use blogs to reflect on their experiences and access a range of additional learning resources such as podcasts and online journals," says Frame. "It is very exciting to see learners supporting and encouraging each other in these ways".

From the sociocultural perspective, learning is embedded in the fabric of social activities in which novice learners, supported by expert learners, gradually develop the ability to achieve goals and solve problems without help (Vygotsky, 1978).

The results of a study with 48 participants in groups of three showed that learners supported by scaffolding on the scriptlet level showed more cognitive elaboration during online discussion (measured by means of think-aloud protocols) and acquired more knowledge on argumentation than did learners without support.

This enables our trainees (throughout this document, the term "trainee" is used broadly to represent undergraduate, graduate, medical health professional students and lifelong learners supported by this training) to pursue careers in biomedical/health-related research to address the Nation's biomedical and health-related research needs.

Evidence for the influence of fading comes from a study by Wecker and Fischer (2011), in which learners, supported by either an unfaded or a faded external script that included scriptlet scaffolds on different levels of specificity, were required to write counterarguments in an asynchronous online discussion.

Ministers may say that savings will be found elsewhere and that teaching and learner support will be protected.

"The LSC letter implies £154m less in funding for teaching and learner support for 2010-11 than was originally planned.

Christina Lloyd, head of teaching and learner support at the OU, thinks it is partly to do with changing perceptions.

It talks about learner support in the MOOC environment and the issues to consider in providing support to MOOC learners.