ABSTRACT
SUMMARY Autonomy learning, with its aim of leading to lifelong learning, is not only pedagogically desirable, but could actually be made more readily cost-effective than more traditional approaches to learning. However, the introduction of autonomy learning constitutes a major change in any educational system and it will fail, unless it is handled at the system level. This chapter illustrates these points in terms of past attempts at educational innovation and concludes with an analysis of the problems — educational, managerial and financial — that stand in the way of a successful introduction of cost-effective autonomy learning.
