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Informally Learning

  • By Higham Hall
  • Jun 7, 2013
  • Lifelong Learning Philosophy

One could argue that Informal Education is all the rage these days. The ability to consider anything as a potential learning experience is a powerful notion. Unfortunately, this also means that we have seen the demise of formal arenas for developing informal learning. But we do have some remedies, if only we would wake up 

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