Learning does not stop when an individual leaves formal education, but becomes increasingly informal, and deeply embedded within other activities such as work. This article describes the challenges of informal learning in knowledge intensive industries, highlighting the important role of personal learning networks. The article argues that knowledge workers must be able to self-regulate their le...

Modeling and realization of an intelligent tutor for informal situations in support of formal education is a new and challenging problem relevant to the learning performance and efficacy. It needs further exploration regarding the factors that distinguish tutoring and learning in a formal classroom and informal places. The paper presents the results from an empirical study identifying the envir...

This paper addresses two questions: (1) Do informal job searchers find good jobs in Hungary? (2) Do social resources theory and the theory of employee referrals explain the conditions under which informal job searchers find good jobs? The questions are examined using a rather unique dataset which was collected among people who completed secondary vocational education in 1998. It is found that t...

This article analyzes the informal sector of entrepreneurial education — free “open” educational projects at federal level in context broader trends development and society, including education’s ‘unbundling’. The search for information was carried out using Internet, as a result 45 initiatives were discovered. results show that entrepreneurship is broad, but there are large number areas improv...

The purpose of this study was to analyse Portuguese coaches' perceptions of, and preferences for, knowledge sources as related to professional background; namely academic education level, coach education level and coaching experience. The study's participants comprised 336 Portuguese coaches from twenty-two sports. A questionnaire was used to identify coaches' demographic characteristics and re...