The rapidly-developing 21 st century world of work and knowledge calls for self-directed lifelong (SDL) learners. While higher education must embrace the types of pedagogies that foster SDL skills in graduates, the pace of change in education can be glacial. This paper describes a social annotation technology, the Collaborative Lecture Annotation System (CLAS), that can be used to leverage exis...

Background: Self-directed learning (SDL) is an essential teaching-learning method for transforming medical students into lifelong learners. In SDL, learners are responsible undergoing their process and gradually shifting control from teacher to themselves. However, First-year MBBS in need of receiving training support become self-directed Hence, the present study aimed evaluate outcomes adoptin...

BACKGROUND Existing theories of self-directed learning (SDL) have emphasized the importance of process, personal, and contextual factors. Previous medical education research has largely focused on the process of SDL. We explored the experience with and perception of SDL among internal medicine residents to gain understanding of the personal and contextual factors of SDL in graduate medical educ...

Adequate training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and use of an automated external defibrillator (AED) is an important component of a workplace safety training program. Barriers to traditional in-classroom CPR-AED training programs include time away from work to complete training, logistics, learner discomfort over being in a classroom setting, and instructors who include information irr...

Background: Self-directed learning (SDL) is considered a vital learning parameter in health professions studies. This dynamic technique helps the medical graduates to take initiative for solving their learning problems and become a lifelong learner to meet the challenges in health care profession. Methods: The 100 students of first year M.B.B.S were randomly divided into two batches of 50 stude...

The goal of this study was to look into the effects gender and age on students’ ICT self-efficacy ( ICT-SE), self-directed learning (SDL) e-learning readiness (ELR) ,engagement (SE) among middle late teens. Using an easy sample technique, data obtained from students at various schools, colleges, universities in Rawalpindi Islamabad. total size 300 students, with 144 boys (n=144) 156 girls (n=15...

INTRODUCTION Self-directed learning has been recommended as a promising methodology for lifelong learning in medicine. However, the concept of self-directed learning continues to be elusive, with students and educators finding difficulty in defining it and agreeing on its worth. METHODS In this paper we review the literature of self-directed learning in health professions education and presen...

AIM This paper reports the findings of an investigation into teachers' and students' understanding of the term self-directed learning (SDL), and their views concerning its value in paediatric intensive care (PIC) nurse education. METHODS Qualitative methods of data collection and analysis were used. The findings from interviews with teachers and students across eight PIC nursing courses are r...

BACKGROUND Existing literature is mixed as to whether self-directed learning (SDL) delivers improvements in knowledge, skills or attitudes of medical students compared with traditional learning methods. This study aimed to determine whether there is an association between engagement in SDL and student performance in clinical examinations, the factors that influence student engagement with SDL i...