What Is Free-Choice Learning?

Learning is a lifelong activity. It is not confined to classes, workshops, or conferences, and is not just for students, or workers pursuing professional skills. Learning is an essential human endeavor – Everyone engages in free-choice learning every day:

• At home, after work, and on the weekends
• Visiting art, science, and history museums;
• Exploring botanical gardens and state parks;
• Reading books, magazines, and newspapers;
• Surfing web sites, blogs, and online message boards;
• Viewing video and film, listening to radio and podcasts.

Such informal, free-choice learning is:

• Self-motivated and self-controlled;
• Cumulative and enriching;
• For the curious;
• For the young, and young at heart.