scholarly journals Sketching as a Tool to Measure Concept Application in an Informal Learning Environment

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristen Morris ◽  
Charlotte Coffman ◽  
Fran Kozen ◽  
Katherine Dao ◽  
Denise Green ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Concept Application ◽  
Informal Learning Environment

scholarly journals EMERGENCE OF INFORMAL LEARNING SPACE IN UNIVERSITY CAMPUS: A COMPARATIVE SCENARIO IN THE CONTEXT OF KHULNA CITY

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. Sourav ◽  
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D. Afroz ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Outdoor Environment ◽  
Formal Learning ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Learning Spaces ◽  
Learning Space ◽  
Informal Learning Environment

Ancient education system was developed from a semi-outdoor environment. While developing the learning spaces it developed into indoor environment to ensure controlled environment, focus, discipline and compactness. These properties lead to formal education and formal learning space which replaced the informal learning environment. Formal learning space usually drive students towards a single expertise or knowledge. The limitations and boredom of formal education often causes depression and annoy towards education that result in limited learning and one-sided education. This research indicates the role of “informal learning environment” which helps university students to achieve multi-disciplinary knowledge through a simple, contextual and informal way. To establish the emergence, we tried to do a quantitative analysis among the students studying different universities in Khulna city. We have tried to understand the perspective of the students whether they feel the importance of informal learning or not in their daily life. While working on this paper, we have experienced unique scenario for each university but by any means Khulna University and Khulna University of Engineering & Technology serves their student the environment where students can meet and share knowledge with their natural flow of gossiping with food or drinks while Northern University of Business & technology and North-Western University have shown different scenario.

‘Practice Story Exchanges’ and their Creative Invitation to Informal Learning

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 57-66
Author(s):  
Peter Willis
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Collaborative Group ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Informal Learning Environment

This is a study of how members of a collaborative group interested in promoting convivial civilisation in human society took up exchanging practice stories – stories of doing something or seeing something done as examples of convivial backyard civilisation – in order tacitly to create an informal learning environment where practices of such a convivial backyard civilisation could seem normal, desirable and do-able. Practice story exchanges were an attempt to ‘tell the truth but tell it slant’ as Emily Dickenson put it, to work tentatively and collaboratively avoiding too much direct confrontation and rigid debate. This paper talks of the work of creating conviviality to redress an over emphasis on productivity in society; of the nature and importance of informal learning and its links with story exchanges and how this is pursued in the work of the Australian Centre for Convivial Backyard Civilisation (ACCBC).

The effect of informal learning environment upon students’ understanding of science-technology-society-environment

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (9) ◽  
pp. 22-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merve Cansu Ince ◽  
Bayram Costu
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Informal Education ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Informal Learning Environments ◽  
Science Technology Society ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Informal Learning Environment ◽  
Out Of School

It is known that an informal learning environment (i.e., out-of-school) increases the quality of teaching and learning activities. Informal environments also provide many advantages such as enriching the content of learning. Moreover, it is emphasised that the science-technology-society-environment (STSE) learning does not effectively involve in the Turkish education system. From this point of view, informal learning environments should be considered in order to enable students’ understanding of the STSE relation. Within the scope of this study, it was aimed to determine the effectiveness of study visit on students’ understanding of STSE. The research was conducted with 14 male students in the 5th-grade level in the 2016– 2017 academic year. This research, which used a recycling-solid waste collection centre, a botanic garden, a planetarium, a science centre and a zoo, a few informal learning environments, was conducted according to the case study design method. In the study, views on science-technology-society questionnaire, semi-structured interviews, observation forms and diaries were used as data collection tools. The data indicated that the informal learning environments were inadequate to promote conceptual change; however, it was effective to comprehend newly learnt concepts. In addition, it was also concluded that informal learning environment provided students to capture the understanding of STSE relations. Keywords: Science-technology-society-environment (STSE), informal education, out-of-school environment.

scholarly journals Learning Outside Classrooms on Campus Ground: A case study in Malaysia

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (9) ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
Norhati Ibrahim ◽  
Nur Hafisah Fadzil ◽  
Masran Saruwono
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Survey Techniques ◽  
Inventory Survey ◽  
Informal Learning Environment ◽  
The University ◽  
Quality Learning ◽  
Space Conditions

This paper reports an assessment on a physical informal learning environment at a public university in Malaysia. The physical aspects investigated were the space conditions and utilisation that support informal learning activities undertaken by students outside their formal lecture hours. The research was conducted to understand how existing university facilities accommodate informal learning, through the use of observational and field inventory survey techniques. The study shows that an existing traditional university setting could accommodate a range of informal learning activities, for a limited percentage of the university population. The setting for learning could be better improved through the creation of more varied space conditions for varying learning activities and engagement intensity. It also asserts that quality learning environment should go beyond fulfilling functional needs and cater for the learner’s emotional need for inspiration and sense of identity.Keywords: Learning; Informal setting; Higher educationeISSN 2398-4295 © 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.

scholarly journals La fanfiction et le FLE : une manière d’enrichir l’enseignement de la littérature à l’Université ?

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Mattias Aronsson
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Francophone Literature ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Work Process ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Collaborative Learning Environment ◽  
Informal Learning Environment

The article presents a project where the concept of fanfiction is introduced in a Francophone literature course taught at Dalarna University (Sweden). The project presented in this study is based on the idea of online communities as an informal learning environment. The corpus consists of material gathered during four semesters, when the fanfiction project was introduced as a course assignment to undergraduate students of contemporary Francophone literature. The results indicate that the use of fanfiction in the University’s formalized learning environment creates some challenges. For instance, the fundamental online principle of anonymity and the use of English as the lingua franca of web-based communities cannot be easily transferred to an academic course where French is the target language – and where the students’ achievements must be assessed and graded by the teacher at the end of the term. Nonetheless, the overall conclusion of the project is positive. In order to write a fanfiction story based on an existing literary work, the students had to appropriate the original oeuvre; in the sense of incorporating it and making it their own. The work process was partly based on the principle of interaction. Thus, a collaborative learning environment was created, where students constructed knowledge and negotiated meaning together – a type of learning very much rooted in the sociocultural tradition.  

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