{"id":95,"date":"2008-06-25T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T09:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/?p=95"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:12:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T16:12:43","slug":"considering-the-formal-and-informal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/considering-the-formal-and-informal\/","title":{"rendered":"Considering the formal and informal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read a really <a href=\"http:\/\/ubernoggin.com\/archives\/195\" target=\"_blank\">interesting post<\/a> on formal and informal learning and the impact of social networks on <a href=\"http:\/\/ubernoggin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Robbins<\/a>&#8216; blog.<\/p>\n<p>The slideshow is well worth a view, particularly the exploration of the differences between what university education and social networks provide, and new conceptions of the role of the teacher in Higher Education:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>teaching students to learn in an information economy;<\/li>\n<li>guiding students to shape their own paths;<\/li>\n<li>enabling students to access professional networks;<\/li>\n<li>modelling lifelong learning practices;<\/li>\n<li>relating as a more experienced community member.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I wholeheartedly agree with Sarah&#8217;s analysis, but feel &#8211; from my experience with both university staff  &#8211; that we are still a long way away from this being an accepted model. I think that true teacher commitment to this paradigm is essential for its success &#8211; but this re-framing of role and loss of control clearly isn&#8217;t easy. I am really interested in ways to get lecturers to think about re-conceiving education &#8211; and ways to create the autonomous teacher as well as learner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read a really interesting post on formal and informal learning and the impact of social networks on Sarah Robbins&#8216; blog. The slideshow is well worth a view, particularly the exploration of the differences between what university education and social networks provide, and new conceptions of the role of the teacher in Higher Education: teaching students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[44,54,48],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-learning","category-thoughts","tag-blogs","tag-informal-learning","tag-web-20"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71sY0-1x","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":690,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}