Reflections on Autonomous Learning and Its Educational Importance

Abstract

The objective of the research was to describe the importance of Autonomous Learning in Higher Education students, the method I use consists of a qualitative approach with a phenomenological design, consisted of a theoretical review of the contribution and research on the subject. It was concluded that both education and learning are complex and interdependent processes of cognitive and functional accommodation; that autonomy is a right and the basis of a person's freedom and that autonomous learning is an individualized and independent type of learning, generated and developed by an individual's interest in assimilating something, without the synchronic intervention of other subjects.