Recognition and Validation of Non Formal and Informal Learning: Lifelong Learning and University in the Italian Context

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Di Rienzo
Keyword(s):  
Informal Learning ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Formal And Informal Learning ◽  
Italian Context

Blockchain Technology as a Bridging Infrastructure Among Formal, Non-Formal, and Informal Learning Processes

2021 ◽  
pp. 959-970
Author(s):  
Aras Bozkurt ◽  
Hasan Ucar
Keyword(s):  
Informal Learning ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Educational Experiences ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Web 3.0 ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Distributed Ledger ◽  
Distributed Ledger Technology ◽  
Educational Processes ◽  
Formal And Informal Learning

Blockchain is an online decentralized and distributed ledger technology that has the ability to keep and track records in a safe, verifiable, and transparent manner. More significantly, it has an infrastructure that is compatible with Web 3.0, which offers great potential for lifelong learning. This chapter explains the different modalities of learning (formal, non-formal, informal), blockchain technology, and its current use in educational processes. Based on the findings, the authors suggest that blockchain technology can be used to connect and interlink different educational experiences that occur in different educational modalities, enabling us to evaluate educational processes holistically and thus promote lifelong learning through the use of cutting-edge technologies.

scholarly journals GLOBAL TRENDS OF ADULT EDUCATION IN THE UNESCO’S DOCUMENTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (16) ◽  
pp. 28-38
Author(s):  
Олена Василенко
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Adult Learning ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Community Education ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Formal And Informal Learning ◽  
Citizenship Skills

The article is devoted to the problem of global trends and directions of development in adult learning and education that are considered in UNESCO’s documents. It is noted that UNESCO, as a specialized agency of the United Nations, promotes international cooperation in education, science and culture, its priorities include the achievement of quality education for all and lifelong learning, as well as the creation of an inclusive knowledge-based society through information and communication. The author summarizes that UNESCO as a world international organization has a crucial significance in promoting and developing adult learning and education through adopting a number of documents, concepts and reports that define mainstream trends and development directions. The latest may be referred to the following: replacement the concept of Development of Adult Education with the Adult Learning and Education, widening by this way sphere of its implementation; defining three core learning domains in the field of ALE as: literacy and basic skills; continuing education and professional development; liberal and community education (active citizenship skills); confirming the paradigm of traditional distinction between three basic categories of learning activity: formal, non-formal and informal learning; noting, however, that there should be a distinction between purposeful informal learning and random informal learning. It is noted in the article that the efforts of numerous UNESCO organizations are focused on specific areas that need improvement, such as: giving everyone a fair chance at education so that everyone has equal access to adult education; a significant increase in participation in adult learning and education in order to achieve equal progress in adult education and learning in different countries, etc. Key words: the UNESCO, lifelong learning, adult education, adult learning and education, formal, non-formal and informal learning, equal participation

scholarly journals The Humanitarian Action Qualifications Framework: a quality assurance tool for the Humanitarian Sector

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bastiaan L. Aardema ◽  
Cristina Churruca Muguruza
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
Humanitarian Action ◽  
European Universities ◽  
Formal And Informal Learning ◽  
Professional Mobility ◽  
Increasing Demand

The article presents the European Universities on Professionalisation on Humanitarian Action (EUPRHA) Project as an initiative that seeks to contribute to the professionalisation and quality assurance of the humanitarian sector. Its purpose is to explain the approach and the process leading to the development of the Humanitarian Action Qualifications Framework as an example of good practice for other sectors aiming at improving the recognition of qualifications as a precondition of academic and professional mobility. With this aim, it introduces the educational and humanitarian trends that led to this project: the move from transnational qualifications frameworks of which the European Qualifications Framework for Lifelong Learning (EQF) is the best example to sectoral qualifications frameworks and the increasing demand from the sector seeking to determine the competencies and required skills of a professional humanitarian aid worker. Based on the EQF and the Tuning methodology the framework will act as a translating device to make national and sectoral qualifications more readable and promote humanitarian workers’ and learners’ mobility between countries and organisations. It will facilitate inter-system transparency and recognition of (non-)formal and informal learning by linking occupations, skills, competences, and qualifications, thus benefiting the Humanitarian Sector as a whole.

scholarly journals The Conceptual Foundations of Lifelong Learning in Kazakhstan: Process Modeling

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (17) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
Serik Omirbayev ◽  
Darkhan Akhmed-Zaki ◽  
Aidos Mukhatayev ◽  
Andrii Biloshchytskyi ◽  
Khanat Kassenov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Informal Education ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Formal And Informal Learning ◽  
Basic Competencies ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Conceptual Foundations

Considering the increased interest in ensuring the well-being of a person, lifelong learning takes a leading place in society. The purpose of this study is to build the concept of the LLL system for the Republic of Kazakhstan based on the methodology of education and international best practices, as well as global trends in the development of education. The key idea of the study is to justify the LLL system, which provides coverage of the country's population with formal, non-formal and informal learning to increase its competitiveness and basic competencies to the level of the OECD countries. To do this, we propose mechanisms that allow us to fully recognize the learning outcomes of formal, non-formal and informal education. These ideas were proposed by the authors to the Kazakhstan’s Government on the development of the Concept of Lifelong Learning.

scholarly journals Lifelong Learning Policies: The Case of Work-Based Learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Aggelos Kavasakalis ◽  
Foteini Liossi
Keyword(s):  
Informal Learning ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Life Long Learning ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Formal And Informal Learning ◽  
European Policies ◽  
Learning Policies

In this paper the role of validation and recognition of non-formal and informal learning, focusing on work-based learning (WBL) is examined. The paper is based on the analysis of EU and international organizations policy documents related to developments in the areas of Lifelong Learning and the development of learning processes through WBL. In the first section, a general overview of the wider condition of the society and economy and the necessity of the discussion on the paper’s theme take place. In the next part of the paper a mention of key points of the European policies on life-long learning with the focus of recognition and validation of non-formal and informal learning is been presented. In the third part, the section before the concluding remarks, the theme of Work-based learning, the development of necessary validation processes and the challenges are being analyzed.

scholarly journals The Lifelong Learning Iceberg of Information Systems Academics - A Study of On-Going Formal and Informal Learning by Academics

10.28945/3088 ◽  
2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bill Davey ◽  
Arthur Tatnall
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Academic Support ◽  
Real Life ◽  
University Environment ◽  
Formal And Informal Learning ◽  
The University

This article describes a study that examined the lifelong learning of information systems academics in relation to their normal work. It begins by considering the concept of lifelong learning, its relationship to real-life learning and that lifelong learning should encompass the whole spectrum of formal, non-formal and informal learning. Most world governments had recognised the importance of support for lifelong learning. Borrowing ideas and techniques use by Livingstone in a large-scale 1998 survey of the informal learning activities of Canadian adults, the study reported in this article sought to uncover those aspects of information systems academics’ lifelong learning that might lead policy setters to understand the sources of learning valued by these academics. It could be argued that in the past the university sector was a leader in promoting the lifelong learning of its academic staff, but recent changes in the university environment around the world have moved away from this ideal and academics interviewed from many countries all report rapidly decreasing resources available for academic support. In this environment it is important to determine which learning sources are valued by information systems academic so that informed decisions can be made on support priorities.

Blockchain Technology as a Bridging Infrastructure Among Formal, Non-Formal, and Informal Learning Processes

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aras Bozkurt ◽  
Hasan Ucar
Keyword(s):  
Informal Learning ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Educational Experiences ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Web 3.0 ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Distributed Ledger ◽  
Distributed Ledger Technology ◽  
Educational Processes ◽  
Formal And Informal Learning

Blockchain is an online decentralized and distributed ledger technology that has the ability to keep and track records in a safe, verifiable, and transparent manner. More significantly, it has an infrastructure that is compatible with Web 3.0, which offers great potential for lifelong learning. This chapter explains the different modalities of learning (formal, non-formal, informal), blockchain technology, and its current use in educational processes. Based on the findings, the authors suggest that blockchain technology can be used to connect and interlink different educational experiences that occur in different educational modalities, enabling us to evaluate educational processes holistically and thus promote lifelong learning through the use of cutting-edge technologies.

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