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"Learning is a social, active, and ongoing process. What would a motivated group of self-learners need to know to agree on a subject or skill, find and qualify the best learning resources about that topic, select and use appropriate communication media to co-learn it? Beyond technology, what do they need to know about learning and putting learning programs together? What does a group of people need to know to use today's digital resources to co-learn a subject? This handbook is intended to answer that last question and provide a toolbox for co-learners."

"Developmental psychologist Lev Vygotsky defined what the person or a student can do - or the problems they can solve - as three different stages: What a student can do on their own, working independently or without anyone's help. What the student can do with the help of someone. What it is beyond the student's reach even if helped by someone else."

Considering the zones of proximal development model should drive educators to seek out and leverage more structured educational interventions, without which the limitations of learning and self-directed learner growth may be undermining the overall impact of the medical education we create.