How Parents Support Children’s Informal Learning Experiences with Robots

Moving Forward Together: How Programs Can Support Informal Caregivers and Parents

presenting the findings from the Informal Caregivers Research Project, funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation’s Children, Families, and Communities (CFC) program and conducted by Mathematica Policy Research. The first brief in this series provided an overview of informal child care in California based on a review of recent literature and from the perspectives of stateand county-level...

Enhancing informal learning experiences with affect-aware technologies

Although institutions of informal learning, such as museums, science centers, and zoos, seek to convey knowledge, they also seek to influence visitors’ interest, attitudes, and feelings about the topics they address. Upon entering an informal learning environment, visitors are surrounded by choices: they decide what to see, where to invest their time, and how long to stay. The quality of the ex...

how digital libraries can support e-learning?

digital libraries offer opportunities for e-learning that are not possible in their physical counterparts. digital libraries complement other learning environments, such as those provided in distance education and courses offered online. like e-learning environments, they provide flexibility of time and place. digital libraries have the potential to offer unprecedented resources to support e-le...

Self-regulated and Informal Learning: Understanding How New Digital Contexts Support Autonomous Learning Processes

The aim of this paper is to reflect on the new challenges associated to online digital content creation and use and its impact on learning based on some of the findings of the ongoing eContentplus European project KeyToNature. This three-year project aims at developing interactive e-tools for learning and teaching biodiversity providing common access to data and interactive educational tools fo...

Literature Review Digital-Mediated Experiences and Kids’ Informal Learning