What's the difference between learner and scholar?

Learner


Definition:

  • (n.) One who learns; a scholar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thus it is unclear how a language learner determines whether German even has a regular plural, and if so what form it takes.
  • (2) This study examined the extent to which normal learners identified as cognitively rigid could use alternate strategies when instructed to do so.
  • (3) Children not only are fast learners and anxious to acquire new skills but also are at risk for the development of dental health problems.
  • (4) But under current funding arrangements, part-time learners (about 39% of the student population) are not eligible for grants and loans.
  • (5) Some providers, including both schools and colleges, misguidedly retain learners in unsuitable provision or try to duplicate provision in schools that is better delivered in further education colleges or work-based learning providers."
  • (6) Commonly there is a desire by girl learners to continue their education , especially their formal education, despite their pregnancy even when the barriers to returning to school imposed by their families or schools and social stigmas may not easily permit it.
  • (7) The program must be problem-centered, affording the learners the opportunities to engage in the discovery of the role of nutrition in the health of people, the nutritional environment, and the interplay between the two.
  • (8) It is only very recently that studies of distance learners have begun to consider gender as a variable.
  • (9) The first attempt to apply the problem-based learning approach to written material for use by an individual learner in the absence of a tutor led to a trial in Ghana, Kenya and Pakistan to compare a conventionally designed module with a problem-based learning module on the same topic for their respective acceptability, effectiveness and efficiency.
  • (10) This study provides external validation for the classification of disabled learners according to patterns of academic achievement, demonstrating a useful procedure for dealing with the intrasubject variability characteristic of disabled learners.
  • (11) Repeat training sessions that take into account affective dimensions as well as the diverse needs of adult learners are recommended.
  • (12) This study involves 413 learners (student and pupil nurses) training in the general nursing field.
  • (13) Findings in the studies related to the characteristics of the patient as learner support the following variables as significant for a theory of instruction: demographic characteristics including age, race, duration and type of illness, educational level, and family preparedness.
  • (14) Boydell's Scale for Measuring the Learner-Centredness of a Course was administered to a non-random sample of all 172 third-year students at three schools of nursing.
  • (15) Reflecting on Kushner’s lack of immediate experience, the veteran US Middle East peace negotiator Dennis Ross told the Jerusalem Post last week that Kushner would need to be a quick learner.
  • (16) The teachable moment is the time when a learner is ready to accept new information for use conceptually or in practice.
  • (17) Analysis of the data showed the ward sister to be aware of her training function and her responsibility towards the student nurse as learner.
  • (18) Results of previous research, experience in planning, observations of the planning processes of others and discussions with expert continuing medical educators show that planning is a dynamic process of suggesting and selecting from many alternatives those instructional activities with the greatest potential for effecting the desired changes in learners.
  • (19) Previous research has demonstrated that the typical dental school graduate has attributes similar to the concrete sequential learner.
  • (20) Educational technology provides the link between teaching and learning; it should accommodate the essential interactions between learner, instructor, environment and material.

Scholar


Definition:

  • (n.) One who attends a school; one who learns of a teacher; one under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; a learner; a student.
  • (n.) One engaged in the pursuits of learning; a learned person; one versed in any branch, or in many branches, of knowledge; a person of high literary or scientific attainments; a savant.
  • (n.) A man of books.
  • (n.) In English universities, an undergraduate who belongs to the foundation of a college, and receives support in part from its revenues.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However the imagery is more complex, because scholars believe it also relates to another cherished pre-Raphaelite Arthurian legend, Sir Degrevaunt who married his mortal enemy's daughter.
  • (2) Now is the time to rally behind him and show a solid front to Iran and the world.” Political scientists call this the “rally round the flag effect”, and there are two schools of thought for why it happens, according to the scholars Marc J Hetherington and Michael Nelson.
  • (3) This is why legal scholars are repeatedly reminding us that until our constitution is ratified, the EU will continue to lack the political debate that must be at the centre of any mature democracy.
  • (4) Zhang Lifan, an independent scholar, told the Associated Press that the use of offshore holdings by those with ties to officials gave a strong impression of privilege and impunity.
  • (5) The development of knowledge for nursing poses an exciting, scholarly adventure for the profession's scientists.
  • (6) Unsurprisingly, one of the three lonely references at the end of O'Reilly's essay is to a 2012 speech entitled " Regulation: Looking Backward, Looking Forward" by Cass Sunstein , the prominent American legal scholar who is the chief theorist of the nudging state.
  • (7) For the many students who amble past it every day, it’s easily missed; placed rather innocuously next to the bridge that joins Scholar’s Piece to the rest of the college.
  • (8) Considerable scholarly exertion has gone into describing the flaws in each count.
  • (9) But it accused South Park of having mocked the prophet, and cited Islamic scholars who ruled that "whoever curses the messenger of Allah must be killed".
  • (10) A statement from al-Shabaab on Monday said the latest attack – the deadliest since Westgate – was revenge for the "Kenyan government's brutal oppression of Muslims in Kenya through coercion, intimidation and extrajudicial killings of Muslim scholars".
  • (11) The fascination of American and British scholars with each other's health care systems is a case study of the risks and benefits of the comparative approach.
  • (12) • Mohamed Elshahed is a Cairo-based scholar completing his PhD with the Middle East department of NYU.
  • (13) Two student groups, Scholarism, and the Hong Kong Federation of Students, announced they would "occupy" parts of central Hong Kong after the protest ended , despite promises by police to take "decisive action" if crowds did not disperse by early Wednesday morning.
  • (14) The Shakespearian critic and scholar, Nicholas Brooke, who had taught Sage at Durham, was also there, as was the writer, Jonathan Raban.
  • (15) These are very accomplished people and they’ve never seen so much red ink on their copy.” And yet Ademo says he would welcome more submissions from scholars.
  • (16) President Obama should use his meeting to announce an end to the US military aid, which is helping Mexico’s military, federal police and other security forces continue killing and disappearing innocents with our tax dollars – and with impunity,” said activist Roberto Lovato, a visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley Center for Latino Policy Research, and one of the organisers of the #UStired2 campaign, which has organised the demonstrations.
  • (17) Can't understand wilful&total destruction of EU expertise, with Cunliffe,Ellam&Scholar also out of loop.
  • (18) In a study that took into account the opportunity costs for jail time and the cost of stolen goods, scholars found that crime cost Uruguay about $319m (£209m) a year.
  • (19) Authorities arrested scores of activists, including the prominent legal scholar Xu Zhiyong .
  • (20) In his illuminating and judicious scholarly study of the region, Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands, Richard Sakwa writes – all too plausibly – that the “Russo-Georgian war of August 2008 was in effect the first of the ‘wars to stop Nato enlargement’; the Ukraine crisis of 2014 is the second.