Blending Formal and Informal Learning Networks for Online Learning

With the emergence of social software and the advance of web-based technologies, online learning networks provide invaluable opportunities for learning, whether formal or informal. Unlike top-down, instructor-centered, and carefully planned formal learning settings, informal learning networks offer...

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Autor principal:	Betul Czerkawski
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2016
Materias:	formal and informal learning environments e-learning instructional design Special aspects of education LC8-6691
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/8b1d8209696e480fa7949fce3f0e9cf1
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:8b1d8209696e480fa7949fce3f0e9cf12021-12-02T19:20:43ZBlending Formal and Informal Learning Networks for Online Learning10.19173/irrodl.v17i3.23441492-3831https://doaj.org/article/8b1d8209696e480fa7949fce3f0e9cf12016-05-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/2344https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831 With the emergence of social software and the advance of web-based technologies, online learning networks provide invaluable opportunities for learning, whether formal or informal. Unlike top-down, instructor-centered, and carefully planned formal learning settings, informal learning networks offer more bottom-up, student-centered participatory but somewhat disorganized learning opportunities for students. This paper presents a research study where graduate students are surveyed in their use of informal and formal learning networks in online courses to understand the interaction between the two and how they impact each other. The findings showed that students and professors use both environments often, to optimize learning but online course design is usually not designed to consider informal experiences of the students. The results and illustrated course design framework may contribute to the discussion of blending informal and formal learning for online learning. Betul CzerkawskiAthabasca University Pressarticleformal and informal learning environmentse-learninginstructional designSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 17, Iss 3 (2016)
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description	With the emergence of social software and the advance of web-based technologies, online learning networks provide invaluable opportunities for learning, whether formal or informal. Unlike top-down, instructor-centered, and carefully planned formal learning settings, informal learning networks offer more bottom-up, student-centered participatory but somewhat disorganized learning opportunities for students. This paper presents a research study where graduate students are surveyed in their use of informal and formal learning networks in online courses to understand the interaction between the two and how they impact each other. The findings showed that students and professors use both environments often, to optimize learning but online course design is usually not designed to consider informal experiences of the students. The results and illustrated course design framework may contribute to the discussion of blending informal and formal learning for online learning.
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title	Blending Formal and Informal Learning Networks for Online Learning
title_short	Blending Formal and Informal Learning Networks for Online Learning
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title_fullStr	Blending Formal and Informal Learning Networks for Online Learning
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publisher	Athabasca University Press
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Blending Formal and Informal Learning Networks for Online Learning

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