As learning becomes more self-directed, informal learning is gaining popularity Learning is changing. It is moving from a primarily school-based, formal process to include more informal opportunities.

I’ve just come across a provocative article recently published in the American Scientist magazine that calls into question whether schools are really the most effective conduit for learning about ...

A major recent study showed that informal science learning can play an important role in improving student learning in that subject. Such out-of-class learning can include trips to zoos or museums and ...

A first step in understanding how to promote science learning in informal environments is to develop a full picture of what it means to do and learn science. Over the past few decades, historians, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One problem may be that the way music is taught in school has become increasingly formal. The current music national curriculum, ...

We’re lucky to be living in what I consider to be the golden age of informal learning. Informal learning is an educational process that isn’t directed by a teacher or instructor but derives ...

S uzan ne Dove, Patrice Torcivia Prusko and Jennifer Cutts are all well-known scholar/practitioners in the centers for teaching and learning and learning innovation worlds. They met through the HAIL ...

WASHINGTON -- Each year, tens of millions of Americans, young and old, choose to learn about science in informal ways -- by visiting museums and aquariums, attending after-school programs, pursuing ...

Much of what people know about science is learned informally. Education policy-makers should take note. The seemingly endless debate about how to improve US science education seems to make the tacit ...