Evaluation Practices for Informal Adult Learning Wiki: Summary

Evaluation Practices for Informal Adult Learning

April 13-May 1, 2009 | SCoPE Discussion

Description

Informal learning is a key part of our personal development. It is also becoming a larger part of our working lives. But in an era of increasing accountability, we begin to question the role of evaluation for informal / self-paced adult learning...

What are existing rationales for evaluation of informal / self-paced adult learning (for the learner and the provider/developer)? What accountability do we have to learners / providers/ funders? What's different about evaluating informal learning vis a vis formal learning? What are emerging practices for evaluation informal / self-paced adult learning? What are some challenges in the field? What are the opportunities in the field?

• Week 1: Issues. How do we acknowledge and recognize informal learning?
• Week 2: Cases (eg. e-passport system)
• Week 3: Challenges and Opportunities

Live Sessions

• Friday, April 24, 21:00 GMT (check your time zone - note updated time)
• Elluminate recording

• Forum contributions mentioning resources
• http://delicious.com/tag/evalprac
• looking again at non-formal and informal education - towards a new paradigm, Alan Rogers blog post
• TogetherLearn site
• Seminar tag: 'evalprac'

Publications and Reports [edit]

• Assessment as Practice: Notes on Measures, Tests, and Targets by Brigitte Jordan and Peter Putz. Accepted for publication in Human Organization 2004.
• Evaluating informal learning in a virtual context by Giustina IADECOLA Nicolò and Antonio PIAVE
• Knowledge Delivered in Any Other Form Is... Perhaps Sweeter: Informal learning is becoming a standardized part of a complete, balanced workplace regimen, by Aparna Nancherla, T & D, May 2009
• Report on Phase 1 of the Knowledge Sharing Workshop by Simone Staiger-Rivas, Nancy White, Lucie Lamoureux, and Petr Kosina

Events [edit]

• Corporate Learning Trends and Innovation OnlineEvent: Conversations about Learning in Organizations (April 21-22, 2009; recorded webinars)
• Evaluation of Best Practice for Elearning blog and course content
• Formalizing Informal Learning - The Bersin & Associates Enterprise Learning Framework, Thursday, 21 May 2009, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (GMT -04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Evaluation Tools [edit]

• Instructional Product Evaluation Course Tools
• Seequel Guide to the Non-Formal and Informal Learning Processes
• Spider Diagrams: Example from CIGAR Strategic Communications Workshop

Summary of Issues [edit]

Week One: Emerging Themes and Issues

• Impact of blended learning in corporate and academic settings
• Evaluating lifelong learning opportunities
• Impact of social media on elearning
• 3D (virtual worlds) learning and evaluation
• Shifts in thinking about the relationships between formal and informal learning
• Opportunities to rethink evaluation in learning
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Week Two: Webinar Themes and Issues

• How do we “recognize” learning?
• How do we celebrate learning?
• Do learners distinguish between formal, informal, and nonformal learning?
• What is the role of portfolios for evaluating and recognizing informal learning?
• Is informal learning about self-evaluation?
• Are formal learning assessment tools transferable to the assessment of informal learning?
• What role do educators play in helping learners assess their own (informal) learning?
• What are implications for accreditation?
• What is the relationship between learning and the (self) assessment of that learning?
• What is measured when assessing informal learning?
• How is informal learning valued, especially by institutions?
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