Students' perceptions of the differences between formal and informal learning

ICER'11 - Proceedings of the ACM SIGCSE 2011 International Computing Education Research Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 61-68

  Boustedt, Jonas ^a   Eckerdal, Anna ^b   McCartney, Robert ^c   Sanders, Kate ^d   Thomas, Lynda ^e   Zander, Carol ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÄVLE   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c University of Connecticut   (United States)

^d RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE   (United States)

^e ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BOTHELL   (United States)

Author keywords

informal learning; self directed learning

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; FORMAL TRAINING; INFORMAL LEARNING; SCIENCE GRADUATES; SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS;

EDUCATION COMPUTING; RESEARCH; TEACHING; TECHNICAL WRITING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 80053310953     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2016911.2016926     Document Type: Conference Paper

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