Center for Informal Learning and Schools (CILS) is an American-based National Science Foundation funded center to create a program of research, scholarship...

Informal learning is characterized "by a low degree of planning and organizing in terms of the learning context, learning support, learning time, and...

specialists, publishers, broadcast journalists, and many others. Center for Informal Learning and Schools chronolog - a citizen science environmental monitoring...

The Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC) at the University of Pittsburgh is an interdisciplinary center focused on describing, understanding...

Education. Retrieved June 17, 2013. "Project Details: Center for Informal Learning and Schools". Informal Science. Retrieved June 17, 2013. Guthrie, Julian...

formal, informal, and nonformal learning methods. The UN and EU recognize these different forms of learning (cf. links below). In some schools, students...

computers, MP3 players, mobile phones, and tablets. M-learning can be an important part of informal learning. M-learning is convenient in that it is accessible...

with 'formal learning', but have more structure than that associated with 'informal learning', which typically take place naturally and spontaneously...

Constructionist learning is a theory of learning centred on mental models. Constructionism advocates student-centered, discovery learning where students...

CILS may refer to: Center for Informal Learning and Schools Center for International Legal Studies, an Austrian law institute Certificazione di Italiano...

centres were sponsored and overseen by courts; by religious institutions, which sponsored cathedral schools, monastic schools, and madrasas; by scientific...

school." Library services to schools have evolved since the late 1800s from public or state library book wagons, to informal classroom collections to what...

continue learning to maintain a license. Lifelong learning institutes are educational organisations specifically for lifelong learning purposes. Informal lifelong...

professional development opportunities for those who work in science centers and other institutions of informal learning. ASTC's professional development services...

concepts and the language of a subject should be split into multiple steps. Other informal learning theories look at the sources of motivation for learning. Intrinsic...

a trade school, career center, career college, or vocational college. Vocational schools were called "technical colleges" in Australia, and there were...

Monastic schools (Latin: Scholae monasticae) were, along with cathedral schools, the most important institutions of higher learning in the Latin West from...

formal schooling system, while informal education involves unstructured learning through daily experiences. Formal and non-formal education are categorized...

17). Interactions between teacher and student are informal and based on Jiddu Krishnamurti’s philosophy that "Learning cannot happen when there is fear"(handling...

higher learning such as colleges, technical training institutes, community colleges, nursing schools, research laboratories, centers of excellence, and distance...

campus. The Center aims to transform computing, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (C-STEM) education in both formal and informal K-14 programs...

the current and former democratic schools around the world. This list also includes sub-branches of democratic schools such as Sudbury schools inspired by...

imitation, and grammar. Multiple organizations support classical education in charter schools, in independent faith-based schools, and in home education...

families use less formal, more personalized and individualized methods of learning that are not always found in schools. The actual practice of homeschooling...

Outside of the classroom, augmented learning is important for informal STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education. This form of education...

including Schools without Walls, Schools within a School, Multicultural Schools, Continuation Schools, Learning Centers, Fundamental Schools, and Magnet...

Graduate School, July 2009. How Do You Define 21st-Century Learning? Making 21st Century Schools – Creating Learner-Centered Schoolplaces/Workplaces for a New...

the Encyclopedia of Informal Education. Thorpe, Mary; Edwards, Richard; Hanson, Ann (1993). Culture and processes of adult learning. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-08981-4...

assessment for learning, including diagnostic testing, is a range of formal and informal assessment procedures conducted by teachers during the learning process...

state schools. In Canada, schools for children who are having difficulty in a traditional secondary school setting are known as alternate schools. In French...