ÖZEN, Yener Erzincan Üniversitesi - Eğitim Fakültesi - Ölçme ve Değerlendirme ABD, Turkey

INFORMAL LEARNING THEORY: LIFE-LONG LEARNING CHANGED AND DEVELOPED

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This paper exhibits basic features of lifelong education and possible forms of learning. Informal learning is elaborated in more details than other forms. The process of informal learning is a real example of lifelong education where an individual has total control over the learning process and its results by choosing learning forms that suit them best at a particular time (reading the written materials, communication with people from their real or virtual surroundings, exchange of experiences, learning on mistakes...). The paper emphasizes the importance of information and communications technologies in the process of informal learning, i.e. lifelong education. It is argued as a result of this study that this theory may contribute to education in issues like effective learning, changing/transforming as a whole class, and functional schooling. In addition, emphasizes the importance of information and communications technologies in the process of informal learning, i.e. lifelong education.

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Informal Learning , Life , Long Learning , Changed , Developed

dicle university journal of social sciences institute

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