Informal Learning

INFORMAL LEARNING

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Traditional and formal education has been for a long time been the standard and de facto method in to deliver information . Especially considering the classroom set up , where in there is a teacher , a student , a classroom , and a designated curriculum for the discussion that is facilitated by the teacher , the method of formal education is deeply relies upon in our culture in to deliver the information that is required for learning ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM "sort :true "citationItems :[ "itemID :2000 ] (Sefton-Green , 2004

p This does not attempt to deny or ignore the efficiency of a formal education set up . However , recently , a growing number of academic studies have pointed towards informal education to be efficient and effective this will especially in the multi-faceted field of learning and education . The does not claim that informal education could provide a substitute and an alternative for formal education . What it does stress , however , is that informal education may be a reliable accompaniment to formal and traditional methods of teaching and that if properly used and combined with traditional means of information teaching , could yield larger results especially in the classroom set up where students have been pointed out by research to be having multiple levels and kinds of learning , education , and reception methods . Such informal education has been implemented by many academic institutions around the world . In fact , the choice of educational institution often relies not only on the ability of teachers to...