Rethinking informal learning

[EN]Informal learning has been always an important source of knowledge, perhaps the most important at the workplace, but its own informal nature has caused difficulties to be recognized and introduced in the “official” ways of training and certification. TEEM conference has paid special attention to the problems associated with informal learning from the first edition of this event, and now this track continues with this significant tradition with the aim of rethinking the informal learning basis

A social framework for supporting, evaluating and validating informal learning

Validation of informal learning has been a hot topic in the European Union the past few years. A number of guidelines and proposals have been published providing competence catalogues for direct transition from informal to formal learning. In our work, we propose the usage of a more social and dynamic framework for validating and promoting a learner's informal learning.Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version

A social framework for supporting, evaluating and validating informal learning

Validation of informal learning has been a hot topic in the European Union the past few years. A number of guidelines and proposals have been published providing competence catalogues for direct transition from informal to formal learning. In our work, we propose the usage of a more social and dynamic framework for validating and promoting a learner's informal learning.Peer Reviewe