1. Nomenclature Standard 1 for Accredited Courses 1.1 Name of the Course in Recognised Informal Learning qualification 1.2 Nominal duration 15 hours of the course 2. Vocational or The course is developed to meet the needs of clients, from groups characterised by educational disadvantage, by providing a educational outcomes of the point of entry into educational pathways or employment. course The course has educational outcomes resulting in no specific vocational outcomes from the course. This course aims to provide a way of: providing national recognition for informal learning • potentially incorporating informal learning in • accredited courses describing the four levels of informal learning gain acquired • based on skills and knowledge, autonomy, issues and context of the learning granting formal recognition for informal learning 3. Development of the course The definition of informal learning from the Australian Qualifications 3.1 Industry /enterprise/ Framework Council report: Strengthening the AQF: A Framework for community needs Australia's Qualifications, Consultation Paper, July 2010, is adopted for the course: Informal learning is learning gained through work, social, family, • hobby or leisure activities and experiences. Unlike formal and non-formal learning, informal learning is not organised or externally structured in terms of objectives, time or learning support. Formal learning is the learning that place through a • structured program of learning and assessment that leads to the full or partial attainment of a formally recognised qualification. Non-formal learning refers to learning that takes place through a • structured program of learning but does not lead to a formally recognised qualification.
1. Nomenclature Standard 1 for Accredited Courses 1.1 Name of the qualification Course in Recognised Informal Learning 1.2 Nominal duration of the course 15 hours 2. Vocational or educational outcomes of the course The course is developed to meet the needs of clients, from groups characterised by educational disadvantage, by providing a point of entry into educational pathways or employment. The course has educational outcomes resulting in no specific vocational outcomes from the course. This course aims to provide a way of: • providing national recognition for informal learning • potentially incorporating informal learning in accredited courses • describing the four levels of informal learning gain acquired based on skills and knowledge, autonomy, issues and context of the learning granting formal recognition for informal learning 3. Development of the course 3.1 Industry /enterprise/ community needs The definition of informal learning from the Australian Qualifications Framework Council report: Strengthening the AQF: A Framework for Australia's Qualifications, Consultation Paper, July 2010, is adopted for the course: • Informal learning is learning gained through work, social, family, hobby or leisure activities and experiences. Unlike formal and non-formal learning, informal learning is not organised or externally structured in terms of objectives, time or learning support. • Formal learning is the learning that place through a structured program of learning and assessment that leads to the full or partial attainment of a formally recognised qualification. • Non-formal learning refers to learning that takes place through a structured program of learning but does not lead to a formally recognised qualification.
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