The University Without Walls experiment on the University of Massachusetts, Amherst campus, began in 1971. The central animating concepts of the original experiment include the value of knowledge that is learned both within and without ‘the walls’ of the university. These various knowledge sources are integrated into the student’s individualized plan of study within an interdisciplinary analytic framework. This approach is described here as integrative interdisciplinary studies and its on-going strength as an approach to adult learning is in the synergy of these approaches. An integrative interdisciplinary approach supports transformative learning within a context-specific understanding of knowledge.

马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特校区的无墙大学实验始于 1971 年。原始实验的中心动画概念包括在大学“围墙”内外学习的知识价值。这些不同的知识来源在跨学科的分析框架内被整合到学生的个性化学习计划中。这种方法在这里被描述为综合跨学科研究，其作为成人学习方法的持续优势在于这些方法的协同作用。综合的跨学科方法支持在特定于上下文的知识理解中进行变革性学习。