Open learning
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Open learning is a teaching method
Teaching method
A teaching method comprises the principles and methods used for instruction. Commonly used teaching methods may include class participation, demonstration, recitation, memorization, or combinations of these...

 that is, among others, founded on the work of Célestin Freinet
Célestin Freinet
Célestin Freinet was a noted French pedagogue, and educational reformer.- Early life :...

 and Maria Montessori
Maria Montessori
Maria Montessori was an Italian physician and educator, a noted humanitarian and devout Catholic best known for the philosophy of education which bears her name...

.
Open learning is supposed to allow pupils self-determined, independent and interest-guided learning.
More recent work on open learning has been conducted by the pedagogues Hans Brügelmann
Hans Brügelmann
Hans Brügelmann is a German professor of pedagogics.From 1971 until 1973 he has been assistant to the committee "strategies for curriculum reform" at the commission "Deutscher Bildungsrat," a commission for educational planning of the German federal and state governments.Before and after his...

, Falko Peschel
Falko Peschel
Falko Peschel is a German pedagogue and proponent of open learning. He gained attention for his unorthodox education experiments and publications.-External links:*...

, Jörg Ramseger and Wulf Wallrabenstein.

See also

  • Active learning
    Active learning
    Active learning is an umbrella term that refers to several models of instruction that focus the responsibility of learning, on learners. Bonwell and Eison popularized this approach to instruction . This "buzz word" of the 1980s became their 1990s report to the Association for the Study of Higher...

  • Augmented learning
    Augmented learning
    Augmented learning is an on-demand learning technique where the environment adapts to the learner. Instead of focusing on memorization, supplemental information is presented to the learner based on the current context. The augmented content can be dynamically tailored to the learner's natural...

  • Cooperative learning
    Cooperative learning
    Cooperative learning is an approach to organizing classroom activities into academic and social learning experiences. Students must work in groups to complete tasks collectively...

  • Experiential education
    Experiential education
    Experiential education is a philosophy of education that describes the process that occurs between a teacher and student that infuses direct experience with the learning environment and content. The term is mistakenly used interchangeably with experiential learning...

  • Example Choice
    Example Choice
    Example choice is a teaching method that has been developed and explored at the University of Bergen. The main objective is to make mathematics and science teaching more interesting and relevant to the daily life of students...

  • Social learning
    Social learning
    Social learning may refer to:* Observational learning , learning that occurs as a function of observing, retaining and replicating behavior observed in ones environment or other people....

  • Learning by teaching
    Learning by teaching
    In professional education, learning by teaching designates currently the method by Jean-Pol Martin that allows pupils and students to prepare and to teach lessons, or parts of lessons...

     (LdL)
  • Language exchange
    Language exchange
    Tandem language learning is a method of language learning based on mutual language exchange between tandem partners...

  • Open Learning for Development
    Open Learning for Development
    Open Learning for Development is an effort to provide free learning with the ultimate goal of helping developing countries around the world. The Open Training Platform is a UNESCO-driven hub offering free training resources on a wide range of development topics, fostering cooperation to provide...

     an Open Training Platform sponsored by UNESCO
    UNESCO
    The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations...

     offering free training resources on a wide range of development topics, fostering cooperation to provide free and open content for development.
  • Didactic method, the opposite theory of teaching in a scientific way.
  • Distance education
    Distance education
    Distance education or distance learning is a field of education that focuses on teaching methods and technology with the aim of delivering teaching, often on an individual basis, to students who are not physically present in a traditional educational setting such as a classroom...

  • Minimally Invasive Education
    Minimally Invasive Education
    Minimally Invasive Education is a term used to describe how children learn in unsupervised environments. It was derived from an experiment done by Sugata Mitra while at NIIT in 1999 often called The Hole in the Wall....

    , a term used in the deployment of Internet-connected computers in public places to encourage voluntary learning.
  • Self-regulated learning
    Self-regulated learning
    The term self-regulated can be used to describe learning that is guided by metacognition , strategic action , and motivation to learn...

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