Significant learning occurs beyond formal education contexts. Today’s top ten list describes the power of informal and nonformal learning. Informal learning is learning by living – learning isn’t specifically planned, it simply occurs. Two examples of informal learning: 1) taking in what one observes while walking the streets; and 2) listening in on an interesting [...]
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