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Unformal, the New Normal?

Monday, September 20, 2010

As the incoming tide of informal learning advances on the tiny beach blanket of formal learning and seems likely to engulf it, learning professionals are raising many questions, including the most basic: what is informal learning anyway, and how does it fit into a big picture of learning?

A search for a meaningful distinction between formal and informal learning will take you back several decades to a time when the class or course was the model, characterized by structure and control, designed

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