Awardees spend 10 to 15 hours a week in school, aiding teachers and supplementing class lessons.
Due to the wide variety of supplements classed as nootropics, there's no single way of explaining how they work.
Compared with membership in the low-dose supplement users class, membership in the other classes was strongly predicted by known correlates of CAM use, lending credibility to our analytic approach.
Semifinalists and their schools each get a $1,000 prize from the contest; Mr. Rella said the school would use its prize money to supplement the class's budget.
But I might be interested in this sort of service as a way to supplement those classes — although at that point Yoogaia is competing with free classes on YouTube so it's going to need to offer something pretty compelling, instruction wise, to compete with free.
The 1,300 undergraduate students at Reed already use Web-based software that supplements traditional class instruction in subjects like history, philosophy and literature.
I was thrown straight in at the deep end, and for my first assignment I was asked to give optional lectures on human physiology to supplement mandatory classes.
Even at the more challenging school, Liu was able to finish his work with time to spare, so his mother provided science books to supplement his classes.
He reminisced: "Blackboard ended up being successful in the long run because we'd go to schools and say you won't only supplement traditional classes by putting teaching materials online, you could have long distance learning and new reach.
I actually have a personal connection to this: my daughter Eve's school uses Memrise to supplement in-class learning, and well before this funding story came along, Eve had told me that her Memrise training has been a huge help in growing and remembering German vocabulary and how to use words correctly.
