The phrase "accidental learning" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the process of learning that occurs unintentionally or without deliberate effort, often through experiences or interactions.
Example: "Many people experience accidental learning when they pick up new skills or knowledge while engaging in everyday activities."
Alternatives: "unintentional learning" or "incidental learning".
Within two months I'd learned it all instinctively, and that was through purely accidental learning.
However, the professors' clinical workload, lack of sufficient proper formal training, lack of practical applicability of existing standards, and absence of rigorous assessment during the specialized training, reduce their very good quality formation to the level of accidental learning.
Certainly, the interviewees indicated that most of the skills they required, including clinical skills and communication skills were picked up almost by accidental learning during the large amount of time on the wards, which included 26 weeks of medicine and surgery in the final year, rather than explicit clinical teaching.
Since younger kids are more prone to accidental drowning, learning this skill early increases their chances of survival if they should end up in the water.
But many of these accidental techies learn only as much as they absolutely must.
Training has been defined as 'suppressing undesirable natural responses, exploiting desirable natural behaviour and instilling novel behaviour by the deliberate or accidental application of learning theory' [ 46].
Learners' role in enhancing their educational environment requires further attention, and opportunities could be explored in the programme to engage children in creating enriched school environments including the posting of pictures, diagrams, maps on school premises, which also encourage accidental and incidental learning.
Additional clinical background information was provided for each of the technical skills, such as for example information on the frequency of Hepatitis C or HIV transmission in accidental pinpricks for the learning objective 'safe syringe disposal', or a list of drugs contraindicated for long-term peripheral administration for the learning objective 'intravenous cannulisation'.
And Barack Obama, a man usually so sleek and Americanly immune to the pitfalls of bad teeth and accidental gurning, has learned the full Janus effect of statesmanship this week, in the public response to his reactions on two counts.
So his new book, "The Education of an Accidental CEO: Lessons Learned From the Trailer Park to the Corner Office," (Crown Business, 2007, written with John Boswell) tells how he was behind the idea that spawned Crystal Pepsi — a colossal blunder as consumers showed they liked their Pepsi dark.
But since this is, for better or worse, my life now, I decided to go to the 12th annual BlogHer Conference to spend some time among my accidental peers and learn what, exactly, makes an intentional blogger.
