It is impossible to find a system in which only formal or only informal learning dominates. According to researchers, they are integrated. If we conduct a comparative analysis of the cost of training, flexibility, efficiency (“don’t put it off until later,” “here and now”), then informal learning undoubtedly has advantages over formal learning.

A number of researchers argue that informal learning, representing a specific educational space, contributes to the “full, comprehensive self-development of everyone’s personality.” “The educational space of informal education is not only a place for acquiring knowledge, it changes a person’s attitude towards the natural environment and develops the necessary social norms of behavior.” Informal education to a greater extent allows young people to learn social roles, improve themselves in various directions, allows them to realize personal responsibility in society, and develop social responsibility.

Despite the fact that informal education does not have clearly regulated norms and rules, it is aimed at the specific educational needs and requests of an individual or group of people.

This speaks of a completely new form of manifestation of informal learning - open information exchange in the system“subject-object relations”, where the environment of the virtual Internet space acts as the subject.

So, certain opportunities of informal education were mentioned above. But still there are some threats which could be faced in terms of this mode of education.

For example, there is no feedback from the teacher, that is, the student cannot be sure whether he has the right direction. Secondly, in the era of digitalization, the number of sources of information is growing, among them there might be unreliable information that needs analysis and filtering, and here the student is left alone with this information within the framework of informal education.