VSA Mid Career Education Program for Informal Learning Evaluators

访问者研究协会(VSA)将计划为职业生涯中期(实践)专业人员提供非正式学习、研究和评估方面的继续教育计划。VSA有能力将其传统的深入研讨会计划扩展为更全面、更系统的非正规继续教育计划。规划活动将与2005年VSA年度会议一起进行。在规划会议期间，将审查内容和过程，最终结果将是一份包括建议内容、能力和灵活、创造性交付机制的计划。该项目将直接满足非正式学习基础设施的需要，因为需要了解非正式学习的过程和产品，而且由于人们对计划问责的兴趣日益浓厚，基于结果的评估变得越来越重要。一旦这个计划到位，它将服务于那些职业生涯中期的专业人士，他们承认游客研究是一种拥有自己的知识、原则和正在进行的研究的职业。它将为那些对非正式学习和评估研究感兴趣的人提供服务，无论他们是如何进入实地的，或者他们的工作与评估有什么关系。

The Visitor Studies Association (VSA) will plan a Continuing Education Program for Mid-Career (Practicing) Professionals in informal learning research and evaluation. VSA is in a position to expand its traditional in-depth workshop program to a more comprehensive and systematic, non-formal, continuing education program. The planning activity will take place in conjunction with the 2005 VSA annual conference. During the planning meeting, content and process will be examined and the end result will be a plan that includes recommended content, competence and a flexible, creative delivery mechanism. The project will directly addresse the informal learning infrastructure as the need for understanding the processes and products of informal learning, and as outcome-based evaluation becomes increasingly important due to the ever growing interest in program accountability. Once this program is in place it will serve those mid-career professionals who recognize visitor studies as a profession with its own body of knowledge, principles and ongoing research. It will serve those who are interested in research in informal learning and evaluation regardless of how they came to be in the field or how their job relates to evaluation.