"College completion and college success often lag behind college attendance. One theory as to why students do not succeed in college is that they lack key information about how to be successful or fail to act on the information that they have. We present evidence from a randomized experiment...

pt. I. Autonomous learning : an evolution toward technology-enabled, learner-driven, social, and experiential learning -- pt. II. Organizational and societal influences shaping autonomous learning -- pt. III. Effectiveness and value of autonomous learning -- pt. IV. Closing comment.