David, are you aware of Infed.org and their Informal Education site http://www.infed.org/ ? There might be something in their archives. It seems to me that informal learning also relates to certain communities of practice, and there might be something in the COPs literature......Alex alex.kuskis@utoronto.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Wiley" <dw2@opencontent.org> To: <air-l@aoir.org> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 6:23 PM Subject: [Air-l] Informal programming learning?
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Everyone,
I'm looking for references to the informal (trans. extracurricular) learning of programming. We all know (or may be) geeks of great prowess who never took a CS course. These people frequently relied on the Internet to receive help, get feedback, etc. Anyone know of any research pieces that detail (or at least reference) this phenomenon?
Thanks in advance. /me recedes into shadow...
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