This model enables the scaffolding of learning workflows and organizes collaborative learning activities by regulating interactions.
It is generally held by many educators that students of all ages learn best when immersed within a culturally and socially rich environment in which scaffolding of learning can be achieved [ 56].
Regarding video games and collaboration, Yang (2015), based on a review of the literature, made the following suggestions for the effective integration of digital game-based learning: the use of collaboration, the provision of learning aids, scaffolding of learning and instructor orchestration, and a blended learning environment.
Based on these results, a blended approach for DGBL, which incorporates instructor orchestration and scaffolding, provision of learning aids, and the use of collaborative learning, is recommended, particularly for vocational learners.
Tutors are expected to play active roles in the scaffolding of student learning in a PBL curriculum by providing a framework that students can use to construct knowledge on their own (De Grave et al. 1999).
As conceptual models, phylogenetic trees offer insights into patterns and processes of evolution and provide powerful scaffolding for learning about biology (Novick and Catley 2007).
Social mediation by cultural scaffolding – the third meaning of learning – is interpreted by Salomon and Perkins (1998) as learning which is mediated by cultural artifacts such as tools (e.g., books, photos and videos) and information sources.
The eSchoolbag provides students a technology-rich learning environment with kinds of learning resources, scaffoldings, cognitive and metacognitive tools.
Thus, good scaffolding shifts the primary management and control of learning from the instructor to the student.
But one computer system facilitates reflection on the efficacy of strategies: STAR LEGACY, a template for the organization of learning environments that employ scaffolding (Schwartz, Lin, Brophy, & Bransford, 1999).
In more updated versions of inquiry learning, constructivist notions of learning, performed by the students themselves or with the scaffolding of others, appeared.
