Educational Technology

by Gary Woodill, Float

Informal learning and implicit learning occur all the time, and these types of learning are where mobile technologies can shine. Mobile technologies can augment and enable documentation of both informal and implicit learning in that these devices are usually used in the immediate contexts in which a learner is located, rather than in a classroom or conference room. In other words, there is no need for a formal setting for learning if learners use mobile technologies to find what they need when they need it, or if they are learning without realizing it through their immediate experiences in the world around them. (This latter type of learning may or may not be augmented by mobile learning technologies).

http://floatlearning.com/2012/07/mobile-tracking-and-assessment-of-informal-learning-part-of-a-revolution/