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Part 1 Issues; Chapter 1 Moving Towards Autonomy, David Boud; Chapter 2 Planning Learning Experiences to Promote Autonomous Learning, Joy Higgs; Chapter 3 On the Attainment of Subject-matter Autonomy, Philip Candy; Chapter 4 Assessment Revisited, John Heron; Chapter 5 Technology and Lifelong Learning, Christopher Knapper; Part II Case Studies; Chapter 6 Reducing Teacher Control, J P Powell; Chapter 7 Independent Study: A Matter of Confidence?, Harry Stanton; Chapter 8 One-to-one Learning, David Potts; Chapter 9 'Parrainage': Students Helping Each Other, Marcel Goldschmid; Chapter 10 Student Autonomy in Learning Medicine: Some Part Icipants' Experiences, Barbara Ferrier, Michael Marrin, Jeffrey Seidman; Chapter 11 The Negotiated Learning Contract, Catherine Tompkins, Mary-Jean McGraw; Chapter 12 Struggling with Self-assessment, John Cowan; Chapter 13 The Experience of Independent Study at North East London Polytechnic, John Stephenson; Chapter 14 On Leadership, Change and Autonomy, Richard Bawden; Chapter 15 Putting it into Practice: Promoting Independent Learning in a Traditional Institution, Malcolm Cornwall;