One of my sisters, with whom I chat regularly online, sent me yesterday a link to a site with online games for 11-14 year olds. ‘That’s it’, I thought. I won’t copy the link here lest I should be liable to prosecution, but, really, when are we going to get rid of this ‘games for [...]
Posts Tagged ‘informal learning’
Cheese, glorious cheese
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged gender stereotyping, informal learning on March 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Lost in translation? Unfinished thoughts on the PRATLe talks (28 Feb)
Posted in Boundaries, Dialogue, Location, tagged collaboration, communication across borders, cross-disciplinarity, informal learning, interdisciplinarity, multi-disciplinarity, transforming perspectives on March 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Pedagogical Research into Aspects of Teaching and Learning (PRATLe) Series at the OU’s COLMSCT kicked off on the 28th February with a couple of very interesting talks. I thought it would be interesting to post here some of my thoughts on the day. I’m using bold to highlight what I thought were the main themes. Anne Adams, [...]
Essential material?
Posted in Academic literature, Definitions, eLearning, tagged informal education, informal learning, non-formal learning on March 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’ve finally managed to finish my ‘first reading’ of some of the vast literature (including also blogs and other Web materials) I’ve collected on the topic of ‘informal learning’, so I thought I’d post here a shortlist. Ideally I’d be posting short reviews as well, but I can’t promise that (simply because time is ‘well short’ at [...]
