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Open learning

Here are entered works on learning such as that provided by open universities and associated with courses flexibly designed to meet individual requirements, aimed at removing barriers that prevent attendance at more traditional courses.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Learning

• Adult education
• Self-culture
• Distance education
• Independent study

• Open learning -- Research

• Flexible learning
• Flexistudy
• Self-supported study

• Open: The Philosophy and Practices That are Revolutionizing Education and Science (London: Ubiquity Press, 2017), ed. by Rajiv Jhangiani and Robert Biswas-Diener (multiple formats wth commentary at Ubiquity Press)
• Open Knowledge Institutions: Reinventing Universities (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2021), by Lucy Montgomery, John Hartley, Cameron Neylon, Malcolm Gillies, Eve Horwitz Gray, Carsten Herrmann-Pillath, Chun-Kai Huang, Joan Leach, Jason Potts, Xiang Ren, Katherine Skinner, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, and Katie Wilson (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• At a Tipping Point: Education, Learning and Libraries (Dublin, OH: OCLC, c2014), contrib. by Cathy De Rosa, Joanne Cantrell, Margaret Gallagher, Janet Hawk, Irene Hoffman, Renée Page, Lorraine J. Haricombe, and Deb Wallace (PDF at oclc.org)
• Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education Through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge (2008), ed. by Toru Iiyoshi and M. S. Vijay Kumar (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Open at the Margins: Critical Perspectives on Open Education, ed. by Maha Bali, Catherine Cronin, Laura Czerniewicz, Robin DeRosa, and Rajiv Jhangiani (multiple formats at rebus.community)

• International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning (2000-) (full serial archives)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• College in the Country: A Program of Education for Adults (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1959), by Mildred English (PDF at Georgia)
• Lessons in Reading-Writing-Arithmetic, for Special School Work in Georgia (Atlanta: C. P. Byrd, state printer, 1916), by Georgia Department of Education
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Museum and Popular Culture (New York: American Association for Adult Education, 1939), by Thomas R. Adam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Masters of Their Own Destiny: The Story of the Antigonish Movement of Adult Education Through Economic Cooperation (with revised statistics; New York et al.: Harper and Row., ca. 1960), by Moses Coady (PDF at stfx.ca)
• Masters of Their Own Destiny: The Story of the Antigonish Movement of Adult Education Through Economic Cooperation (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1939), by Moses Coady (page images at stfx.ca)

• EB Erwachsenenbildung (in German) (partial serial archives)

• EB Erwachsenenbildung (in German) (partial serial archives)

• Adult Education Bulletin (partial serial archives)

• Adult Literacy and New Technologies: Tools for a Lifetime (1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Adult Education Among Negroes (Bronze Booklet #1; Washington: Associates in Negro Folk Education, 1936), by Ira De Augustine Reid (page images at HathiTrust)
• Experiments in Educational Service for Adults (typescript; 1940), by American Library Association Adult Education Board, contrib. by Ernestine Rose (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Adult Literacy and New Technologies: Tools for a Lifetime (1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Documenting and Assessing Learning in Informal and Media-Rich Environments (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2015), by J. L. Lemke, Robert Lecusay, Michael Cole, and Vera Michalchik (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Documenting and Assessing Learning in Informal and Media-Rich Environments (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2015), by J. L. Lemke, Robert Lecusay, Michael Cole, and Vera Michalchik (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Research-Based Principles for Adult Basic Education Reading Instruction (2002), by John Kruidenier
  • HTML at ed.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Masters of Their Own Destiny: The Story of the Antigonish Movement of Adult Education Through Economic Cooperation (with revised statistics; New York et al.: Harper and Row., ca. 1960), by Moses Coady (PDF at stfx.ca)
• Masters of Their Own Destiny: The Story of the Antigonish Movement of Adult Education Through Economic Cooperation (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1939), by Moses Coady (page images at stfx.ca)

• Reader Services in Libraries: A Day in Honor of Margaret E. Monroe (1982), ed. by John J. Boll (page images at Wisconsin)

• Moral Enterprise: Literature and Education in Antebellum America (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Derek Andrew Pacheco (PDF at Ohio State)

• How to Do It, by Edward Everett Hale (Gutenberg text)
• How to Do It (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co., 1871), by Edward Everett Hale
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• The Improvement of the Mind; To Which is Added, A Discourse on the Education of Children and Youth (London: Printed for J. Walker and Co., 1814), by Isaac Watts (page images at Google)
• The Book of Culture: The Basis of a Liberal Education (Garden City, NY: Garden City Pub. Co., c1934), by Ethel R. Peyser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Correspondence Between a Mother and Her Daughter at School (second edition; London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1817), by Mrs. Taylor and Jane Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Education of the Will: The Theory and Practise of Self-Culture (6th American edition, from the 30th French edition; c1909), by Jules Payot, trans. by Smith Ely Jelliffe (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Student's Guide (fifth impression; London: University of London Press, 1920), by John Adams
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Schoolmate (partial serial archives)

• The Art of Memory: Being a Comprehensive and Practical System of Memory Culture (St. Paul: National Pub. Co., 1898), by Henry H. Fuller (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Mastery of Memorizing (third edition; Harrisburg, PA: J.P. Downs, c1891), contrib. by James P. Downs, Wm. Raimond Baird, John Heyl Vincent, William Archibald Dunning, and G. F. C. Smillie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Psychological Exercises (New York: Farrar and Rinehart, c1930), ed. by A. R. Orage (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed (deluxe edition, 1907), by C. A. Bogardus (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Phoenix: seu Artificiosa Memoria (in Latin; Vicentiae: Apud Petro Bertelli Bibliopola Patauina, 1600), by Petrus Ravennas (page images at HathiTrust)

• Guide to Memorizing Music (Cincinnati et al.: John Church Co., c1906), by A. J. Goodrich (page images at HathiTrust)

• Flexible Pedagogy, Flexible Practice: Notes from the Trenches of Distance Education (Edmonton: AU Press, 2011), ed. by Elizabeth J. Burge, Chère Campbell Gibson, and Terry Gibson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
• Mobile Learning: Transforming the Delivery of Education and Training (2009), ed. by Mohamed Ally (PDF files with commentary at AU Press)
• Teaching in a Digital Age: Guidelines for Designing Teaching and Learning (third edition, general; Vancouver: T. Bates Associates, c2022), by Tony Bates (multiple formats with commentary at bcccampus.ca)
• Accessible Elements: Teaching Science Online and at a Distance (c2010), ed. by Dietmar Karl Kennepohl and Lawton Shaw (PDF files with commentary at AU Press)
• The Theory and Practice of Online Learning (second edition; Edmonton: AU Press, c2008), ed. by Terry Anderson (HTML and PDF with commentary at aupress.ca)
• The Theory and Practice of Online Learning (second edition, 2008), ed. by Terry Anderson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
• Teaching Crowds: Learning and Social Media (c2014), by Jon Dron and Terry Anderson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
• Teaching Health Professionals Online: Frameworks and Strategies, by Sherri Melrose, Caroline Park, and Beth Perry (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education Through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge (2008), ed. by Toru Iiyoshi and M. S. Vijay Kumar (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Open: The Philosophy and Practices That are Revolutionizing Education and Science (London: Ubiquity Press, 2017), ed. by Rajiv Jhangiani and Robert Biswas-Diener (multiple formats wth commentary at Ubiquity Press)
• New Technologies, New Pedagogies: Mobile Learning in Higher Education (2009), ed. by Jan Herrington, Anthony Herrington, Jessica Mantei, Ian Olney, and Brian Ferry (PDF in Australia)

• Emerging Technologies in Distance Education (c2010), ed. by George Veletsianos (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.