noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a learning outcome (=what someone is supposed to learn from something)
▪ It is important to set teaching objectives and learning outcomes.
a working/learning environment
▪ Most people prefer a quiet working environment.
distance learning
Learning and Skills Council, the
learning curve
▪ Everyone in the centre has been through a very steep learning curve they had to learn very quickly.
learning difficulties
▪ a school for children with learning difficulties
learning disability
learning disabled (=children who have problems learning)
▪ teachers who work with learning disabled children
learning the ropes
▪ I spent the first month just learning the ropes.
learning...by rote
▪ In old-fashioned schools, much learning was by rote.
learning/physical/mental etc disability
▪ children with severe learning disabilities
programmed learning
rote learning
▪ the rote learning of facts
steep learning curve (=they had to learn very quickly)
▪ Everyone in the centre has been through a very steep learning curve .
the learning process
▪ The student is actively involved in the learning process.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
active
▪ Note-taking encourages active learning and provides you with some written record of what you've been studying.
▪ The use of active learning, experiential training techniques so that skills are developed in a non-threatening environment. 2.
▪ Children are engaged in active learning. 6.
▪ In the 1980s there has been a general move in museum education circles towards active learning experiences on site.
▪ The methods involved active collaborative learning, with a strong emphasis on talk.
▪ Group presentations offer another approach for active learning using documentary sources.
▪ The completion of the exercises involves them in an active learning experience.
▪ The use of investigations promotes active learning, the acquisition of transferable skills and articulates well with other educational provision.
associative
▪ The second argument is based on the conclusion derived in Chapter 4 that associative learning tends to be context-dependent.
▪ Indeed it is even possible to produce a form of associative learning in which behavioural and neurophysiological inputs are mixed.
▪ It often prepares organisms for associative learning.
▪ The kind of associative learning shown by rats and pigeons in these experiments is often called conditioning.
▪ By contrast with their failure to affect habituation, the protein synthesis inhibitors did produce amnesia for associative learning.
▪ A convenient distinction, which helps to organize the research on learning, is that between non-associative and associative learning.
▪ These three types were described under associative learning.
▪ Thus sensitization lacks the specificity which is the hallmark of truly associative learning in which a particular pairing of stimuli is achieved.
effective
▪ Since 1976 a number of working groups have met to consider ways of promoting effective learning across the curriculum.
▪ Numerous games, puzzles, jokes and problem-solving activities all add fun - the lifeblood of effective learning.
▪ To prepare information and review materials to assist in the evaluation and development of school and departmental effective learning policies. 4.
▪ It is educational in itself, encouraging the kinds of interaction in which effective learning is grounded.
▪ What kinds of classroom interaction, then, are most likely to provide conditions for effective learning?
experiential
▪ Table 6.1 offers examples of experiential learning activities used in nurse education.
▪ That encourages experiential learning and socialisation in a way that few Western special education or therapeutic settings do.
▪ It is also suggested that experiential learning associated with employment may have been of value to these students.
▪ Examples of experiential learning methods include role play, structured group exercises and counselling skills exercises.
▪ This will mean a person-centred, experiential approach to learning.
high
▪ The right to education is meaningless unless schools and institutions of higher learning are established and maintained.
▪ Research and learning, then, are conceptually unrelated, whereas higher education and learning are conceptually interwoven.
▪ There were no institutions of higher learning except for an obscure agricultural college in Mogilev province.
▪ I have tried to show in this discussion that higher learning is not learning at all in any familiar sense.
moderate
▪ One of George's brothers was recently placed in a residential school for children with moderate learning difficulties as a weekly boarder.
▪ On assessment he was found to show moderate learning difficulties and a marked language delay both in comprehension and expressive language.
▪ Pupils in schools designated for those with moderate learning difficulties have often met failure throughout their schooling.
open
▪ The students have been preparing for the assessments using open learning materials developed by Telford College.
▪ But how can you find out about suitable open learning material?
▪ All three send out very detailed information which should help you to decide whether open learning really is for you.
▪ A series of computer databases has been produced, matching open learning material to the occupational standards for different sectors of industry.
▪ Assistant Principal, Joe Mooney sees enormous potential for the open learning format with foreign students.
▪ You can work through the open learning material whether or not you are enrolled on the programme.
▪ Assessing the effectiveness of learning mathematics by investigative methods; an open learning approach to investigative methods in mathematics.
▪ The over-riding framework for all this activity is the utilisation of technology-based open and distance learning.
severe
▪ They each have grown up sons with severe learning difficulties and need to be at home.
▪ To these young men, this is their own very special pub because they all have severe learning difficulties.
▪ The only B.Ed for children with severe learning difficulties had 20-29 hours of compulsory language work.
▪ Both the above quotations refer to severe learning difficulties but of course severe is a term open to varying interpretations.
▪ In general, the staff/student ratio is rarely as good as in a school for children and young people with severe learning difficulties.
▪ However, there is still considerable use among children with severe learning disabilities.
▪ For those with severe learning difficulties drama offers a secure situation in Which to examine the world.
▪ Develop more day and accommodation services for the extra needs of people with severe learning disabilities and multiple handicaps.
■ NOUN
curve
▪ The human relationships are very intense and therefore the learning curve is accelerated.
▪ It is a profitable business but there is evidence of some slack time, perhaps this is a learning curve effect.
▪ No country can allow a government a learning curve and survive.
▪ But they also have a steep learning curve for the uninitiated, which is something to consider before taking the plunge.
▪ The problems are often more difficult but the learning curve is rapid.
▪ However, both will have started their long journey up the learning curve.
▪ Everyone in the Administration Centre has been through a very steep learning curve.
▪ Those who don't keep rolling on the learning curve get left way behind.
difficulty
▪ One of George's brothers was recently placed in a residential school for children with moderate learning difficulties as a weekly boarder.
▪ They each have grown up sons with severe learning difficulties and need to be at home.
▪ To these young men, this is their own very special pub because they all have severe learning difficulties.
▪ Ward will also continue to oversee some learning difficulties projects supported by the foundation.
▪ Andrew, who has learning difficulties, is a keen violinist and has earned a place in Banks Brass Band.
▪ In Bolton the education authority made special arrangements for clients with a learning difficulty to go to local colleges.
▪ In general it seems that the greater the learning difficulties, the more didactic is the approach and the more controlling the relationship.
▪ None the less, a number of children with severe learning difficulties are integrated into mainstream schools in groups younger than their own age.
disability
▪ However, there is still considerable use among children with severe learning disabilities.
▪ Develop more day and accommodation services for the extra needs of people with severe learning disabilities and multiple handicaps.
▪ Its prime value is with those with severe learning disabilities where communication growth is likely to be limited.
▪ Mr D, 31, has a severe learning disability and other handicaps.
distance
▪ Programmes can combine face-to-face activities, distance learning and action learning.
▪ The programme is structured around periods of residential study supported by distance learning material.
▪ Regular contact with, and support from, Henley is a vital aspect of a distance learning course.
▪ The universities could coordinate distance learning packages for their graduates in various hospitals, although this would have funding and manpower implications.
▪ It may also be achieved through distance learning, where the course is assessed and/or leads to a further qualification.
environment
▪ The skilled teacher who welcomes and values the child's contribution can do much to enhance the learning environment.
▪ This chapter is about the possibilities for creating learning environments which encourage children to work and learn collaboratively.
▪ It's like an adventure playground but everything in it is padded with foam to provide a safe learning environment.
▪ We shall also look at certain features of the learning environment of the departments which are of particular interest.
▪ Building a collaborative learning environment is not about whether or how often children are working individually or in groups.
▪ The Centre also aims to provide a supportive learning environment for the community.
▪ Stirling has already established an undoubted reputation for innovative teaching and offers its students an excellent learning environment.
▪ Museums should be rewarding learning environments, and any attempt to settle for mass popularity alone is to sell museums short.
experience
▪ And key questions emerge here: how do we deliver a linear curriculum without undermining the cyclical nature of the learning experience?
▪ A prolonged period of family life permits the growing offspring to add individual learning experiences to their inborn behaviour programming.
▪ Treat this as a learning experience.
▪ In the 1980s there has been a general move in museum education circles towards active learning experiences on site.
▪ Short frequent periods in time out provide rapid learning experiences for the child.
▪ To give the learner visual, tactile and aural stimuli, which increase the learning experience.
▪ We feel privileged to have had the chance to be part of such a valuable learning experience.
▪ By holding mock interviews you are offering students a valuable learning experience.
language
▪ One useful strategy in language learning is generalisation, but it is most noticeable when it exists as over-generalisation.
▪ We do not need, then, to embrace the semantic asymmetry in order to give an account of language learning.
▪ How far is such a model serviceable for language learning?
▪ Steady progression Language learning progresses at an easy pace, with plenty of reinforcement and revision to ensure lessons are thoroughly learnt.
▪ This is also true in connection with spelling, and so phonic knowledge remains an essential element in the language learning programme.
▪ Others have persisted in a more traditional view that language learning is essentially the same as the learning of grammar.
▪ The prediction in relation to language learning is to some extent confusing.
▪ Avoidance is a negative strategy seen in language learning.
material
▪ The programme is structured around periods of residential study supported by distance learning material.
▪ To produce flexible learning materials for the training of workplace coaches, assessors and verifiers.
▪ The students have been preparing for the assessments using open learning materials developed by Telford College.
▪ A notice board placed in a suitable part of the ward is useful for presenting learning material.
▪ But how can you find out about suitable open learning material?
▪ A series of computer databases has been produced, matching open learning material to the occupational standards for different sectors of industry.
▪ The recognition that information can be retrieved from books and other learning materials, and is not beyond reach. 2.
▪ You can work through the open learning material whether or not you are enrolled on the programme.
need
▪ Finally their need for continued learning need to be acknowledged and provided for.
▪ Once each has had a turn, the group may spend a few minutes discussing possible methods of achieving any identified learning needs.
▪ Was collaboration being used to serve the interests and individual learning needs of the children in her class?
▪ Listening to yourself can be a first step in identifying a learning need or goal.
opportunity
▪ This chapter explores some of the learning opportunities provided by the ward and some of the problems that may arise.
▪ Each ward should have a planned programme which makes full use of its learning opportunities.
▪ Another advantage is that self development is capable of converting even the most boring situation into a learning opportunity.
▪ The learner is allocated to the ward for such a short period that every learning opportunity must be exploited to the full.
outcome
▪ It is here that techniques of various kinds are put into action to achieve practical learning outcomes.
▪ However, the main point of interest is the unintended learning outcomes of such questions as these.
▪ The first is that it is usually preferable to make each objective refer to only one learning outcome.
▪ When linked to the attainment of specific learning outcomes it can provide pupils with a positive stimulus and aid to learning.
▪ Pupils will simply achieve the learning outcomes or not.
▪ Secondly, in the attainment of each learning outcome pupils must be informed of the tasks which contribute to summative assessment.
▪ In criterion-referenced assessment particular attention is paid to the setting of intended learning outcomes or teaching objectives.
process
▪ In accrediting prior learning, the focus is on the outcomes or achievements of learning and not on the learning process itself.
▪ Others emerge through a less conscious learning process.
▪ Adjusting to her style of leadership must have been a learning process for not only the maintenance man.
▪ It's part of the whole learning process.
▪ All teachers are managers, for they have to manage the learning process.
▪ That had been part of the learning process.
▪ The student is actively involved in the learning process and is receiving tuition from an expert.
▪ A logical net searches while learning, so its learning process is slower than that of Wisard.
programme
▪ Furthermore, the tutor may be allocated to a particular ward or unit to help to co-ordinate the learning programme.
▪ The ward staff should discuss the reasons behind the introduction of the learning programme.
▪ The final discussion will include evaluation of the ward learning programme by the student.
▪ The length of the whole learning programme must be determined.
▪ Information of current interest or related to the ward learning programme can be presented in a display form.
▪ Practitioners who returned a preprinted postcard expressing further interest were sent the package of recording booklets and distance learning programme.
▪ This is also true in connection with spelling, and so phonic knowledge remains an essential element in the language learning programme.
▪ Within the ward learning programme, it will also be necessary to plan structured tutorials when set subjects are discussed.
situation
▪ In order to overcome such a learning situation, Schumann suggests that psychological distance must be minimised.
▪ The difficulty is to find a good description language in which to express the learning situation.
▪ As a strategy in the general learning situation it can be particularly damaging, and this is also true of language learning.
▪ Deliberate learning situations have to be constructed if we want to pin causes down and further our grasp on the world.
▪ One way of achieving this is the means of using nurses' personal and life experience in the learning situation.
▪ Central to the creation of such learning situations is the idea of control.
▪ The learner's expectation of success based on his previous experience in a learning situation.
task
▪ The first reasonably reliable and convincing learning task for Drosophila involved training them using just this sense of smell.
▪ Pedagogy in this case actually makes the learning task more difficult.
▪ The arguments for help in this learning task seem overwhelming.
▪ This acted as the literature focus around which seven learning tasks were devised.
▪ In the 1984 study by Bennett etal., teachers thought that their learning tasks were considerably more challenging than they were.
▪ The sign system thus involves a great learning task.
■ VERB
involve
▪ The student is actively involved in the learning process and is receiving tuition from an expert.
▪ When carrying out such exercises, students are actively involved in the learning process and they receive constant feedback about their progress.
▪ The sign system thus involves a great learning task.
▪ These staff are clearly involved in the learning processes of children.
learn
▪ A logical net searches while learning, so its learning process is slower than that of Wisard.
▪ These relate to changes in self-concept, life experiences, readiness to learn and orientation to learning.
▪ Goodwill that is lost is extremely difficult to retrieve. principles of learning See also under learning: theories of learning.
provide
▪ It may also prove necessary to confound the belief that the local community and environment can not provide a suitable learning medium.
▪ Such an algorithm can provide an alternative learning mechanism in a neural network.
▪ It's like an adventure playground but everything in it is padded with foam to provide a safe learning environment.
▪ The Centre also aims to provide a supportive learning environment for the community.
▪ There are many ways in which you can help schools provide relevant and interesting learning for young people.
▪ Short frequent periods in time out provide rapid learning experiences for the child.
▪ The professional qualifications material provides stimulating learning support for anyone in the hotel and catering industry.
▪ The workbook given to each student at the start of the allocation will provide further guidelines for learning.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
independent study/learning
▪ Councillors will discuss the possibility of funding an independent study into the mine's viability.
▪ In the spring semester Gordon taught two seminars and took on more than a dozen students for independent study projects.
▪ It will make provision for mixed-ability groups much easier to organise, and encourage independent study.
▪ Other recent examples of comparative studies are those of Lowe - independent study modules and lecture tours, in 1981.
▪ The course manual can be used for independent study.
▪ The increased use of independent learning at higher levels within the pathway is reflected in the assessment pattern within the modules.
▪ Two independent studies since the 1968 election confirm the trend.
▪ Would you like to do this as an independent study?
seat of learning
▪ It would be sad if our own seats of learning were behind-hand in this confusion.
▪ Leave this seat of learning and you come into the newly renamed Marianské Square.
▪ She spoke of Oxford, that ancient seat of learning, to which universities all over the world still looked for example.