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

Year: 2005

Type: article

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.

Source: História Ciências Saúde-Manguinhos

DOI: 10.1590/s0104-59702005000400008

Author: Lynn D. Dierking

Institution: Institute for Learning Innovation

Language: English

Topic: Museums and Cultural Heritage

Subfield: Museology

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2167804740

FWCI: 42.66

Cites: 5

Cited by: 56

Related to: 10