Impact Of Informal Learning Research Articles

Teaching and learning in Project Management: what are the challenges?

Purpose: The objective of this work is to understand how teaching and learning in project management happens and what their challenges are.Design/methodology/approach: To achieve this objective, we developed a Systematic Literature Review about teaching and learning in project management. Initially, we found 667 works. After reading the title, we selected 150 works for a full reading. 120 were suitable for the proposed objective. Findings: We found five categories: (1) learning; (2) teaching; (3) education; (4) skills; and (5) knowledge. Originality/value: We observed that there are gaps in the studies dealing with these themes concerning project management. Topics such as management of learning processes, the relationship between learning in educational institutions and organizational environments, the impact of informal learning, experiential learning, comparison of serious games and simulations with other learning methods, serous games in projects, hard skills, and soft skills, are still not widely published in academic journals on project management.

The Impact of Informal Learning on Herders’ Operating Income: An Analysis Based on Human Capital Differences

Improving the operating income of farmers and herdsmen is an important starting point for achieving common prosperity. As a common form of learning and an important source of skills training, informal learning has a certain impact on the economy and income level of farmers and herdsmen. This paper takes 439 herdsmen in three cities of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region as the research object and tries to explore the comprehensive influence, subdivision difference, and mechanism of informal learning on the operating income of herdsmen on the theoretical and empirical levels. The results show that the impact of informal learning on the operating income of herdsmen is “inverted U-shaped”, and there is an informal learning balance point of 2.9776 h, which maximizes the effect of informal learning on the increased operating income of herdsmen. After using the instrumental variable method to deal with endogeneity and conducting robustness tests through winsorizing, quantile regression, and substitution variables, the research conclusions were still valid. Heterogeneity analysis found that informal learning has a significant impact on the increase in operating income of herdsmen in the low human capital group, reflecting the role of “sending charcoal in the snow”. However, it has no significant effect on the increase in operating income of herdsmen in the high human capital group, and the effect of “icing on the cake” is not obvious. In view of this result, government departments should speed up the planning of Internet infrastructure construction in pastoral areas, and accurately push the knowledge and skills needs of herdsmen to help increase the operating income of herdsmen.

Musical Futures and Irish primary schools: an investigation into the impact of informal learning and non-formal teaching on music education

ABSTRACT Musical Futures is an approach to music education grounded in the principles of informal learning. Research has shown that Musical Futures has profoundly impacted teaching and learning in music, pupil engagement and educational strategies for music (Green, Lucy. 2002. How Popular Musicians Learn: A Way Ahead for Music Education. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008b). This paper presents changes in music teaching and learning using Musical Futures approaches conducted in six primary schools in the Republic of Ireland. Using Participatory Action Research, teachers (n = 7) and students (n = 137) engaged with Musical Futures from a period of ten to thirty weeks. Data collection instruments included: pre- and post-engagement semi-structured interviews with generalist teachers; focus group interviews with students; lesson observations; video recordings of lessons; researcher journaling; and teacher reflective notes. Building on the pilot study conducted in Ireland by (Moore, Gwen. 2019. “Musical Futures in Ireland: Findings from a Pilot Study in Primary and Secondary Schools.” Music Education Research 21 (3): 243–256.), no study has examined the potential of the approach in this manner within the Irish primary context. Shifts in practice in music teaching and learning are examined from the teacher and student perspectives respectively, with findings indicating changes in the ownership of learning; assessment practices in music; and musical and extra-musical skill development. This paper proffers new perspectives into music teaching and learning, furthering the understanding of, and enhancing practice within the Irish primary generalist context.

Informal learning as mediating mechanism for the relationship between learning climate and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB)

PurposeThe goal of this study was to examine the mediating mechanism of informal learning between dimensions of learning climate and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). In addition, the study also aimed to investigate the learning climate, in the dimensions of learning facilitation, learning appreciation and error avoidance as antecedents of informal learning.Design/methodology/approachThe data were gathered from sports items manufacturing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Sialkot, Pakistan. Sialkot is home to manufacturing businesses that export their products worldwide. Survey data of 318 middle managers collected at 2 different times were used for testing the research model using structural equation modeling (SEM).FindingsThe results demonstrate that facilitation and appreciation learning climate have a positive relationship with informal learning and error-avoidance has a negative relationship with informal learning. The analysis also revealed that informal learning mediated the linkage between learning climate dimensions and OCB. Moreover, informal learning is significantly related to OCB.Practical implicationsHR practitioners and organizational leaders of SMEs can use, encourage and promote informal learning to improve the skills and knowledge of employees at low cost. For instance, management should strategically implement informal learning at the workplace by providing a supportive learning climate.Originality/valuePrevious studies have overlooked the impact of informal learning on OCB and its mediating effect. The present study addresses this gap by examining the mediating mechanism of informal learning between learning climate and OCB.

Impact of Informal Learning at Workplace on Skill Enhancement of Trainers

Purpose - The main purpose of this paper is to identify the informal learning ways at workplace and its impact on skill enhancement of employees. Design/Methodology/Approach - The paper is exploratory and analytical in nature. Target population for the study was trainers of Bhartiya Skill Development University, Jaipur, India. The paper has been analyzed, concluded on the basis of data collected from both the sources primary and secondary. Primary data has been collected with the help of questionnaire and interview of employees and secondary data collected from research papers, books, journal, articles, and related work done in this field. Finding - The main findings of the paper are that informal learning takes place at workplace default and it is an innovative tool for employees’ learning. Some ways of informal learning like Participation in coworker’s job, providing training to others, interaction with other staff and students some of the ways help in trainers to enhance their technical, soft, and human skills. Research Implications - This paper will contribute to recognize the ways of informal learning in organizations which further help in to develop skills of employees. Practical Implication - The study’s findings can give organizations and HR practitioners ideas about how to engage employees in learning with innovative informal learning practices, how to relate learning with different activities of employees and how to enhance their skills with informal learning activities. The study can also be used as base to develop learning model in an organization with right proportion of learning activities. Originality/Value - This study is original in Indian context, which tries to find out the different informal ways of learning at workplace and its impact on skills enchantment of Trainers.

The Impact of Formal and Informal Communication in Organizations a Case Study of Government and Private Organizations in Gilgit-Baltistan

Organizations, nowadays are working in a competitive environment, where they are associated with different types of learning environments. Informal learning has also a great source of gaining a competitive edge over other organizations. Employees within any organization are in contact with informal learning other than their formal practices. Every type of organization has an informal learning environment where informal learning may be the cause of gaining an advantage, so the aim of this research is to find out the impact of informal learning and its impact of performance of employees. Either it has an influence on the enhancement of skills, behavior and attitude of employees or not. For the research study, organizations (governmental and non-governmental) of Gilgit-Baltistan are selected. A sample of 20 from these organizations, Karakoram International University (KIU) as governmental organization and Aga Khan Planning and Building Services Pakistan (AKPBSP) as non-governmental organization, has been selected to conduct the study. Questionnaires have been distributed among the employees of the stated organizations who gave their responses. These responses became fruitful in analyzing and interpretation of the data. After the analyses and interpretation of the data, it has been concluded that informal learning has a greater influence on the performance of employees of organizations.