The Major Characteristics of Informal Education

Education may take place anywhere, anytime; it is a lifelong dynamic process which keeps us learning new things by imparting knowledge and information from many resources and one generation to another generation.

Informal Education is a kind of learning that help us to learn many important things which make us able to lead our effectively, it doesn’t have structured way of learning like well structured curriculum and assessment methods.

The Characteristics of Informal Education

1. Never organized way of learning
2. Learning take place when we living in the group, Community and etc.
3. No mental stress on the learner
4. No age limit
5. It is a process of self learning and etc.

I think Informal Education doesn’t put any mental strain on the learner and it doesn’t have any age limit and Objectives to achieve are most important. Since learning is a lifelong process it has to take place from birth till death, Informal learning provides us with chances to learn many things, which we don’t know from our younger ones, for example learning how to use a Smartphone from youngsters and many more.

Informal Education doesn’t have any way of assessment method or exams so it doesn’t put any stress on the learner by providing all the freedom to learn more things with no time limit, without any assignments and no objectives achieve. Social media became a learning tool in today’s era. Identify the pros and cons of using social media as a learning tool

In today’s modern era using social media almost part of everyone’s day to day life; it starts to evolve to become a tool of learning in today’s era. It has its own pros and cons to the learners.

Pros of using Social media as a leaning tool

1. It gives a chance to the learner to interact with academicians easily.
2. Learner can easily get access to the resources.
3. Easy to form a community of learners where many things can be discussed.
4. It can be used as a tool to communicate to the learners easily, hence most of us familiar with social networks
5. (v)It provides platform and give confidence to the learners to post their thoughts without any hesitations and etc.

Cons of using Social media as a leaning tool

1. Learner may get distracted easily
2. Learner may easily get bullied by others.
3. Sometimes Social media may mislead the learner to get involved in unnecessary arguments and debates and etc.