Informal Learning VCC

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Learners remember 10% of what they read; 20% of what they hear; 30% of what they see; 50% of what they see and hear; 70% of what they discuss with others; 80% of personal experience; 90% of what they teach someone else.

We aim to understand how integrating people into open and inclusive science-focused virtual communities can facilitate Informal Learning and lead to a more informed public capable of evidence-based decision making. We also aim to develop improvements of Place4Us and the VCC software to facilitate more Informal Learning.

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[Apr. 19, 2025] A Call to Action for Humanity: The new book by Rutger Bregman is a “Call to Action for Humanity” (Trevor Noah). Read the extract in the Guardian.

[Jan. 22, 2025] Join the Deliberation in the Deliberation Room "From Knowledge to Wisdom": This Deliberation focuses on how we can transform education to help students understand the difference between knowledge and wisdom and to gain wisdom out of their studies. Among others, we aim to understand to what extent critical reading integrated in studies can help to achieve these outcomes. Come and join the deliberation ...

[Jul. 06, 2023] Building Community: The ILearn VCC is in the process of building a community for informal learning. You are invited to join ...