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Informal learning from university students' perspective [PDF]

open access: yesSpecijalna Edukacija i Rehabilitacija, 2018
The crisis of formal education leads to constant reconsiderations, both at national and global level. It is considered that educational theory, practice and policy focus dominantly on the formal context of learning while they ignore learning in all other
Antić Slobodanka, Filipović Mirko
doaj  

Framework for Personalized Content Recommendations to Support Informal Learning in Massively Diverse Information Wikis

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2019
Even though, most of the early efforts in personalized learning focused on formal learning, there is a growing undeniable demand for personalized support for informal learning.
Heba M. Ismail   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Young children's perspectives of time: New directions for co‐constructing understandings of quality in ECEC

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Children's relationship with time in preschools is an under‐researched area. Young children rarely know how to measure time using a clock, but their experiences of time may contribute to understanding children's well‐being and debates about quality in preschools.
Kristín Dýrfjörð   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cartoon planet: Micro-reflection through digital cartoons - a case study on teaching and learning with young people [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The young learners of today tend to show little enthusiasm for formal schooling. This does not necessarily mean pupils are not interested in learning or developing new skills and competences. In fact, the opposite often happens in the informal settings
Attwell, G   +2 more
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The formality of learning science in everyday life: A conceptual literature review

open access: yesNordina: Nordic Studies in Science Education, 2012
The terms non-formal and informal are attributed to learning in everyday life by many authors, often linked to their interests in particular learning practices.
Niels Bonderup Dohn
doaj   +1 more source

Information-theoretic metric learning [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the 24th international conference on Machine learning, 2007
In this paper, we present an information-theoretic approach to learning a Mahalanobis distance function. We formulate the problem as that of minimizing the differential relative entropy between two multivariate Gaussians under constraints on the distance function. We express this problem as a particular Bregman optimization problem---that of minimizing
Davis, J.   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Supporting professional learning in a massive open online course [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Professional learning, combining formal and on the job learning, is important for the development and maintenance of expertise in the modern workplace.
Littlejohn, Allison, Milligan, Colin
core   +5 more sources

Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Non-Formal and Informal Learning: International Recognition Practices

open access: yesВопросы образования, 2020
This article explores how non-formal and informal learning evolved in the light of the global processes of digitization and technology modernization. A crosscountry analysis of participation in non-formal and informal learning activities is carried out ...
Marina Kicherova   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Learning with prior information [PDF]

open access: yes2000 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems. Emerging Technologies for the 21st Century. Proceedings (IEEE Cat No.00CH36353), 2001
A new notion of learnability with prior information is studied: Instead of considering each target function separately, a probability measure on the set of target functions is introduced, quantifying the relative importance assigned to different targets.
CAMPI, Marco, M. VIDYASAGAR
openaire   +3 more sources

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