The recent increase in research about how we best learn in the 21st Century has identified the ‘power’ of informal and non-formal learning over qualification focussed education. Recent research has even highlighted that informal & non-formal learning is not just enriching, but has the potential personal, educational and societal benefits (not just in supporting formal education, but as a source of learning in itself). In fact, the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-Operation & Development) highlight it as “an important means for making the ‘lifelong learning for all’ agenda a reality for all and, subsequently for reshaping the learning to better match the needs of the 21st Century knowledge economies and society”
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