“I haven’t met many self-directed teenagers,” said a frustrated high school teacher during a recent presentation. As we contemplate the vast problem of teenage disengagement and the apparent low level ...

A research team at the University of Cologne examined how optional support influences students' learning success and ...

The Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Winter, 2007), pp. 9-24 (16 pages) In the boundary-spanning role that salespeople occupy between an organization and its clientele ...

Everyone agrees that education in the United States could be better; but no one seems to want to allow education to be different. The reality is that for education to be better, it must first, be ...

Guests: Ken Danford, executive director of North Star: Self Directed Learning for Teens; and Catherine Gobron, North Star’s assistant director. Anthony Rebora, teachermagazine.org (Moderator): Welcome ...

Two years after colleges and universities made the drastic shift to full remote learning during COVID-19, students are accustomed to the flexibility afforded by online courses. With growing ...

A research team at the University of Cologne examined how optional support influences students' learning success and motivation in secondary biology ...

As regular readers of this blog know, I’m an advocate for Self-Directed Education. My research and that of others convinces me that Self-Directed Education works, is eminently practical, and is far ...

Self-directed learners, or autodidacts, possess the capability to chart their futures in ways that can give them an advantage over their less ambitious contemporaries. I should know, I am one! Back in ...

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Who can resist the romanticism of self-taught achievers? They didn't need school. They didn't need "the system." They needed only their passion and their talent to propel themselves to grandeur. Bill ...