Again, because
formal learning happens in a structured manner, you can keep track of it as it happens.
Formal learning happens through strategically planned learning experiences — often direct instruction from teachers.
Not exact matches
Relief may be the last thing you would expect parents to feel upon
learning their child has a disability, but relief does
happen, often because a
formal diagnosis of a disability gives parents an explanation for the struggles their children have faced.
More
formal learning can also
happen in different ways, depending on the child and the circumstances.
Rather than having a finite number of
formal training sessions that can
happen for a finite number of days in a year, give the learners stackable bites of
learning throughout the year.
In fact, the 70:20:10
learning framework indicates that
learning happens through a combination of
formal, social, and experiential
learning activities — specifically, 70 % experiential, 20 % social, and 10 %
formal.
Learning does not
happen exclusively through a push - down approach consisting of only
formal activities such as lectures and classroom - based training.
The shift from from top - down
formal learning content to informal
learning content is
happening now.
While we tend to focus on the delivery of content, there is a significant body of research that the transfer of
learning is much more dependent on what
happens before and after the
formal learning event.
While
formal learning can also
happen in both spaces, as classes are brought in to work toward more prescribed
learning objectives, most school libraries and makerspaces are equally as supportive of non-curricular, student - driven, independent explorations.
Because
learning happens 24/7 year around, families and communities play an important role in extending the school day, reinforcing what's
learned in the classroom and opening up additional opportunities, through
formal and informal activities.
Rather than viewing
learning as a one - time event, «
learning is a process that
happens over time, through
formal, informal and self - perpetuated means,» John Cleave says.
But that doesn't mean putting in place some new enterprise
learning platform and trying to capture and manage all the «
learning» thats
happening outside
formal learning initiatives — an impossible task anyway.
The other bullets take place outside of the courses and modules we build, and usually
happen spontaneously and without being part of any
formal learning program.
While it is now clearly evident that positive
learning is
happening in both our
formal and informal maker - centered
learning environments, it is also evident that there are differences between the two settings.
Since
learning happens through both
formal pedagogy and outside of the classroom, parents and teachers alike can foster global awareness in meaningful ways.
By recognizing that training or
formal learning is only one element of development and most
learning happens on the job, it expands the scope of
learning and development, offering the potential for greater and timelier effect.
Informal
learning, the other 90 %, covers everything that
happens outside of
formal learning and a lot of that has to do with interacting with colleagues.
On the other hand, only 10 %
happens through
formal training, so social
learning can be twice as effective!
It is evident from here that it is not enough to have
formal training that
happens for a short period of time during the year and is expected to lead the learner from
learning to application at work and a behavioral change.
In fact, I think much of the heavy
learning actually
happened outside of the
formal structures of education.