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Wedemeyer stresses that learning is a natural idiosyncratic, and continually renewable human trait and survival resource. It is not dependent upon teaching, schooling, or special environments, although-properly used-these resources enhance learning. There is a powerful subculture of independent learners who are responsible for much of the real progress that has been made in most areas on endeavor. This book attempts to explain this kind of learning and relate it to schooling, suggesting ways in which all learning-whether traditional or non-traditional-can be encouraged and improved through new kinds of educational institutions and processes.
Figures and Illustrations
Acknowledgments
A Personal Note
Preface
An Introductory Note About Terminology
Part I. The Rise of Non-Traditional Learning
Chapter 1. A New Urgency Regarding Learning
Chapter 2. Learning at the Back Door
Chapter 3. Teaching, Learning, Schooling, and Knowledge
Part II. Non-Traditional Learning and Its Implications
Chapter 4. Distance and Independent Learning
Chapter 5. Open Learning
Chapter 6. The Implications of Non-Traditional Learning
Part III. Technology and Special Processes in Non-Traditional Learning Systems
Chapter 7. Technology and Non-Traditional Learning
Chapter 8. Instructional Design in Non-Traditional Teaching and Learning Systems
Chapter 9. Building and Evaluating Non-Traditional Institutions or Programs
Part IV. Learning from a Lifespan Perspective: Its Ends in a Learning Society
Chapter 10. Lifespan Learning
Chapter 11. Education for What?
Chapter 12. Back Door Learning in the Learning Society
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index