CONTEXT Medical schools worldwide are increasingly switching to student-centred methods such as problem-based learning (PBL) to foster lifelong self-directed learning (SDL). The cross-cultural applicability of these methods has been questioned because of their Western origins and because education contexts and learning approaches differ across cultures. OBJECTIVES This study evaluated PBL's c...

The study focuses on the development of virtual teams from perspective individuals by extending theory self-directed learning (SDL) beyond extant research in nursing education and applying it to a sample adult population working Hungary. After finding necessary theoretical steps connect SDL with teams, was conducted validate existing instruments or, if this is impossible, develop new instrument...

The ability to self-direct a research program determines graduate degree completion. Yet, on incompletion of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs assumes students’ present level self-direction adequate neglects recognize lack self-directed learning (SDL) as key. This essay explores SDL for STEM, presenting the work theoretical nuclear physicist David J. Rowe key exa...

Introduction. This is quasi experimental research in order to determine and compare the learning level of nursing skills ( in B.A students) with self-directed learning and tutor-directed learning pattern in Shaheed Beheshti Univeristy of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Nursing and Midwifery faculty, 1998-1999. Methods. First of all, a questionnaire composed of some demographic data such ...

BACKGROUND Self-directed learning (SDL) is expected of health science graduates; it is thus a learning outcome in many pre-certification programs. Previous research identified age, gender, discipline and prior education as associated with variations in students' self-directed learning readiness (SDLR). Studies in other fields also propose personality as influential. METHOD This study investig...

Attrition is a major concern in schools of nursing, and research shows that it is most prevalent in baccalaureate nursing students as they first encounter their initial nursing and core science courses. Nurse educators anticipate that beginning nursing students have the potential to be self-directed learners; and have the initiative to independently identify and implement resources and strategi...

Problem-based approaches to learning have a long history of advocating experience-based education. Psychological research and theory suggests that by having students learn through the experience of solving problems, they can learn both content and thinking strategies. Problem-based learning (PBL) is an instructional method in which students learn through facilitated problem solving. In PBL, stu...