Lessons without limit: how free-choice learning is transforming science and technology education.

Full Abstract

Societies are becoming nations of lifelong learners supported by a vast infrastructure of learning organizations. The centers of this learning revolution are not schools, but a network of organizations and media (museums, libraries, television, books, and increasingly the Internet) supporting the public's ever-growing demand for free-choice learning - learning guided by a person's needs and interests. Science learning is an important part of this revolution. Traditional boundaries and roles distinguishing groups of science educators and institutions are disappearing. To not understand and embrace these changes will impede our ability to enhance science learning worldwide.

Author information

Author/s: Dierking, Lynn D (LD);

Affiliation: Institute for Learning, Annapolis, MD.

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Historical Article; Journal Article

Journal: História, ciências, saúde--Manguinhos (Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos), published in Brazil. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2005-; vol 12 (issue Suppl) : pp 145-60

Dates: Created 2006/05/05; Completed 2006/11/02;

PMID: 16676468, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 2/18/2009, IMS Date: )

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