Formalizing Informal Learning-What? Why? How?

 Attended "Formalizing Informal Learning- What? Why? How?" by Lance Dublin. Thanks to the kindness of the people at Elluminate, the archive will be available for a month or two here (free of charge). I will probably attend more of Lance's presentations but in archive format so I can stop and digest the information a bit more, he talks very very rapidly.

Take Aways:

• "Informal learning is never organized, has no set objective in terms of learning outcomes and is never intentional from the learner's standpoint. Often it is referred to as learning by experience or just as experience.... "
• "Making mistakes is inevitable."
• "Surprises are a given."
• The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be." Paul Valery 1871-1945

The problem with informal is it is also unrecognized and untrackable for the most part. Unrecognized and untracked learning often equates to under-appreciated learning. How do we create a way for people to get recognition aside from the time/staff intensive testing?