Dr. Caleb Collier

Director, The Institute for Self-Directed Learning


Caleb leads the research, networking, and consulting efforts of the Institute. Caleb has a PhD in Teaching and Learning from Georgia State University with a research focus on self-directed learning. He served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. He has authored many articles on learner-led education and his book, Theoretical and Historical Evolutions of Self-Directed Learning, is a foundational text in the field. Caleb’s greatest passion (and greatest adventure) is his family, and he gladly spends most of his time with his wife and three children at their home in Atlanta.