VSA Mid Career Education Program for Informal Learning Evaluators

访问者研究协会（VSA）将为职业中期（实践）专业人员计划一个非正式学习研究和评估的继续教育计划。VSA有能力将其传统的深度研讨会项目扩展为更全面、更系统、更非正式的继续教育项目。规划活动将与2005年VSA年会同时进行。在计划会议期间，内容和过程将被审查，最终结果将是一个计划，包括推荐的内容，能力和灵活的，创造性的交付机制。该项目将直接处理非正式学习基础设施，因为需要了解非正式学习的过程和产品，并且由于对项目问责制的兴趣不断增长，基于结果的评估变得越来越重要。一旦这个项目到位，它将服务于那些职业生涯中期的专业人士，他们将访问研究视为一种专业，拥有自己的知识体系、原则和正在进行的研究。它将服务于那些对非正式学习和评价研究感兴趣的人，无论他们是如何进入这个领域的，也无论他们的工作与评价有什么关系。

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.