Informal education is any kind of knowledge acquisition acquired outside established Academic environments. It may come out of community organizations, workforce training schemes, or self-study initiatives. Non formal education engages more structured sub-systems of the educational system that provide even some sort of certified and accredited knowledge, like life-long training, MOOC participation etc. Both informal and non-formal education usually does not lead to a degree or diploma, although certificates may be issued. When such kind of education is performed as part of an extension program that raises attractiveness and innovativeness of education in tertiary education, usually involving cross-border scientific research, then non-typical education emerges. In this later case a diploma is conferred.
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Designing Blended Learning Strategies for Rich Content
Copyright: © 2017
|Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0877-9.ch017
Abstract
Today, an immense amount of photorealistic and high quality medical information circulates over the Internet, whether copyright protected and distributed under license from learning portals or simply freely available. Certified textual data along with audiovisual material that has been gathered from medical professional practices may be used for the production of learning objects for multimedia learning. The use of Content Management Systems (CMS) and Virtual Learning Environments (VLE) allow a vast array of images, videos, animations and sounds to be offered through e-Learning. In many professions, e-Learning is the norm. Accordingly, in medicine there is a tendency to blend in the first years of study more and more online material that leads to extensive multimedia learning. However, not all clinical courses within hospitals and examinations can be replaced by media rich content.