Malcolm McAfee (1925–2021) never treated learning as a finished system. Across seven decades, he followed curiosity wherever it led — from early mainframe computers to online communities, from “schools without walls” to one of the world’s first virtual universities. Malcolm moved education from the centre to the edges—and then showed the edges were where real learning had always been.
What Malcolm was doing here was quietly radical. He was redefining where learning happens and what counts as knowledge, because reality doesn’t stay in categories. That becomes:
This site accompanies the book and podcast series Malcolm McAfee and the Long Experiment in Learning. Together they explore not only one life, but a continuing question: how do humans learn together when the walls dissolve?
