Adopting an Informal Learning Strategy

Some things are best learned on the fly, incrementally, rather than in classrooms or through structured educational systems or processes.

BY STEPHEN ABRAM, MLS
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This issue's theme is "Learning and Training." There are loads of ways to do that formally. What with Click University and all of SLA's partners, you can earn degrees, continuing education credits, and certificates very easily (well, not that easily--you also have to attend the classes and do the work). But formal learning and training aren't what I'd like to discuss in this month's column. I want to talk about informal learning, including where to do it and what to think about it for the next few months.

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