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Meisels, Hannah B.; Browne, Rebecca K.; Noam, Gil G. – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2023
This study explored STEM program quality prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic, including differences based on learning setting. Program quality data was drawn from a national database consisting of 1259 program quality observations conducted between 2013 and 2021. Using the Dimensions of Success (DoS), an observation tool focused on informal…
Descriptors: Informal Education, STEM Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
Haozhe Jiang; Ritesh Chugh; Darren Turnbull; Xiaoqin Wang; Suting Chen – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2025
Despite the burgeoning adoption of informal learning in people's daily lives, the actual effects of informal learning activities, especially technology-related informal learning activities, are much less reported than those of formal learning. Furthermore, there is a notable lack of research on the effects of technology-related informal…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Informal Education, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Activities
Rosie Goodman; Jon Ord – Educational Review, 2025
This UK-based study examines how people learned to identify digital misinformation. This included what experiences enabled this development, and the skills that were acquired in the process. This is a small-scale qualitative study of participants who self-reported as being confident in spotting digital misinformation and the data was analysed…
Descriptors: Misinformation, News Media, Media Literacy, Foreign Countries
Brooke R. Schreiber; Mihiri Jansz – ELT Journal, 2025
Despite a growing body of research demonstrating the pluralistic nature of English today, ELT globally still tends to uphold traditional 'native-speaker' norms. A Global Englishes language teaching (GELT) approach to teacher education is one way of breaking down that gap, yet it is not well known how the effects of this approach might hold up over…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Louise Archer; Esme Freedman; Meghna Nag Chowdhuri; Jennifer DeWitt; Francisco Garcia Gonzalez; Qian Liu – International Journal of STEM Education, 2025
Formal and informal STEM learning settings are often assumed to interconnect, as conveyed by the widely used metaphor of the STEM learning 'ecosystem'. While this metaphor usefully conveys the sense of a complex system that comprised interconnected, differentiated parts, it has been critiqued for struggling to engage with power relations and…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Informal Education, Shared Resources and Services, Ecology
Kellie A. H. Carstensen – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2025
This study examined how informal Conversations in English (CIE) groups helped migrants gain cultural knowledge about communicating in the United States and how the CIE groups facilitated the process of language socialization. The Ethnography of Communication (EC) and Cultural Discourse Analysis (CuDA) were used to understand the connection between…
Descriptors: Socialization, Informal Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Sandra Sanchez Adorno – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2025
This collective case study explored the musical lives of second-generation immigrant children in Miami, Florida, USA, to gain greater insight into music's role in the negotiation, construction, and expression of their "identities in music" and "music in identities." Four children between the ages of 8 and 12 who had at least…
Descriptors: Music, Self Concept, Immigrants, Cultural Background
Daimon, Takayuki – International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 2022
The perspective of mobile learning research has transitioned from using mobile technology for education to learning as a human and non-human practice surrounding mobility. This study exemplifies tourism in an increasingly mobile society as a mobile learning practice. Specifically, the learning of children during family travels and the mutual…
Descriptors: Tourism, Travel, Mobility, Children
Han, Seung Hyun; Oh, Eunjung; Kang, Sung Pil; Lee, Sumi; Park, Shin Hee – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the link between informal learning and employees' in-role performance and whether the mechanism through informal learning mediates the relationships between self-efficacy, job characteristics, trust and in-role performance. Design/methodology/approach: Based on data (n = 294) obtained from the…
Descriptors: Job Performance, Informal Education, Employees, Role
Murphy, Victoria L.; Littlejohn, Allison; Rienties, Bart – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2022
Purpose: Learning from incidents (LFI) is an organisational process that high-risk industries use following an accident or near-miss to prevent similar events. Literature on the topic has presented a fragmented conceptualisation of learning in this context. This paper aims to present a holistic taxonomy of the different aspects of LFI from the…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Informal Education, Organizational Learning, Safety
Fahrenbach, Florian; Luomi-Messerer, Karin – European Journal of Training and Development, 2022
Purpose: This paper aims to draw on a socio-technical perspective to explore how information and communication technology (ICT) supports the validation of non-formal and informal learning (VNFIL) in specific practices and arrangements. Design/methodology/approach: The authors use qualitative content analysis to analyse 43 country reports of the…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Nonformal Education, Informal Education, Foreign Countries
Glenn S. Levine, Editor; David Mallows, Editor – Educational Linguistics, 2022
This volume focuses on the learning of host-country languages by migrants in Europe. It identifies, clarifies, and offers insights into issues and central questions related to the learning of host-country languages with an emphasis on adolescent and adult language learners in formal and informal settings. The book draws on data collected following…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Learning, Second Language Learning, Immigrants
Twining, Peter – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2021
There is a growing body of research looking at young people's use of digital technology in informal contexts. However, there is a gap in the literature about how to describe and categorise young people's digital practices in such contexts. This gap is important because in order to be able to understand the differences between young people's…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Computer Use, Children, Informal Education
Christina Ballico; Sean Foran – International Journal of Music Education, 2024
This paper examines capacity building and professional development in Western Australia's contemporary popular music sector. It reports on a mixed-methods qualitative-quantitative study into the lived experiences and needs of musicians and industry practitioners alike. It examines learning which is undertaken outside of formal education settings,…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Musicians, Professional Development, Music
Ju Seong Lee; Nga Man Yeung; Mary Beth Osburn – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Based on Fredrickson's (2001) broaden-and-build theory, this study investigates how Foreign Language Enjoyment (FLE; consisting of "teacher appreciation, personal enjoyment," and "social enjoyment") mediates the relationship between Informal Digital Learning of English (IDLE) and EFL secondary students' willingness to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning