Michael Moore

Michael Moore – main issues were structure and dialogue. “The primary interest is in . . . constructing an environment inn which the individual learner . . . can learn” (Moore, 1986, p. 8). He describes a situation where 90% of adults are interested in learning something on their own and looking for environments where this can take place. Many times educational institutions ignore these students because they do not fit their educational definitions because they do not place much importance on self-directed learners. Moore emphasized the need for the “institution of distance education [to] modify its teaching in order to give each learner the chance to exercise autonomy” (Moore, p. 19). He placed importance on creating an environment where the individual adult learner can not only structure the program learning objectives, but can also determine the resources and projects where “discovery learning . . . give the learner a chance to be actively involved” (Moore, p. 19). The overall idea for distance education is “to serve others, not to serve the machine” which means that the educational system is structured to support “learner freedom, individualism and self-direction” (Moore, p. 22).