The NALL survey of adults' current learning is the first large- scale survey in this country and the most extensive one anywhere to attend to the full array of adults' learning activities, including not only schooling and continuing education courses but also informal learning that occurs outside organized education. If these education and training ships do not pay increasing attention to the massive amount of outside informal learning, many of them are likely to sink into Titanic irrelevancy. It occurs either on our own or with other people.
Most people engage in some other types of informal learning related to their general interests.
The average number of hours devoted to informal learning activities by all Canadian adults over the past year was around 15 hours per week. Province Average hrs. While measuring the iceberg of informal learning remains an elusive task, the available evidence suggests that the amount of time adults are devoting to informal learning is probably increasing. The current survey also finds this general pattern. Level of schooling Avg.