Informal: doing something unrelated to the course that teaches you transferable skills which you can apply to the programme.
Formal: specific course content.
Non-formal: non-compulsory activities still relevant to the course.
As a blog group, we took five things we would like to improve and then thought of different ways we can work on this, thinking of examples for each category. After a group discussion at the end of this task we realised that artist research and contacting illustrators came under the non-formal heading rather than formal because it is something you would do in your own time and not as a compulsory part of the course. Also, I don't think that drawing in a personal sketchbook is an informal way of improving drawing skills because informal learning suggests that this is a subconscious process. It isn't easy to clarify which category each of these fit into but drawing requires you to think and analyse what feeds from your brain to the paper which, I think, makes it a non-formal method of learning.
This diagram explains where I fit in relation to the modules of the course and how the different topics should interlink and affect my work.
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| Kolb's Learning Cycle - Experiential Learning |
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