This study investigated the self-directed learning readiness (SDLR) of 944 Malay undergraduate students in a Malaysian university, using Guglielmino’s Self-directed Learning Readiness Survey (1977), which is 58-item Likert scale questionnaire that uses Delphi technique to identify level SDLR adult learners. Results indicate majority participants possess moderate level. The age-based analysis, t...

To be successful university learners, first year students need to develop skills in self directed learning. This encompasses a range of cognitive and meta-cognitive skills including generating one’s own learning goals, planning how to tackle a problem, evaluating whether learning goals have been met, and re-planning based on this evaluation. Based on qualitative analysis of online learning logs...

INTRODUCTION Clinical nurses are in need of being able to adapt to the ever-changing environment of clinical settings. The prerequisite for their successful adaptation is to be lifelong learners. An approach for making nurses lifelong learners is self-directed learning. AIMS This study was undertaken to evaluate a group of Iranian clinical nurses' readiness for self-directed learning and its ...

Little empirical evidence explains how engineering students’ self-directed learning abilities relate to their learning achievements in the existing literature. To add knowledge base regarding self-directed learning to current engineering educational research, this research attempted to employ two experimental studies to explore the effect of self-directed learning on engineering students’ onlin...

In our rapidly changing technological society, formal training alone cannot meet the need for development of working individuals. Self-directed learning is seen as a solution for adult learners to keep up with these changes. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to identify the essential elements of selfdirected learning that should be integrated into a ubiquitous learning environment for learnin...