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Hyejoo Yun; Hae-Deok Song; YeonKyoung Kim – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2025
Self-regulated learning (SRL) is critical in online learning, and profiling learners' SRL patterns is needed to provide personalized support. However, little research has examined how each learner performs the cyclical phases of SRL based on trace data. To fill the gap, this study attempts to derive SRL profiles encompassing all cyclical phases of…
Descriptors: College Students, Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Self Management
Bowen Liu; Yonghe Wu; Hang Shu; Yongpeng Cui; Can Zuo; Wenhao Li – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2024
Self-direction has become an important skill in the 21st century. To cultivate learners with a high level of self-direction, it is necessary to diagnose their self-directed learning (SDL) ability. This study diagnosed and predicted learners' SDL ability based on their actual SDL behaviours. The study was performed in a self-directed 3D design…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Independent Study, Teaching Methods, Self Concept
Mohd Hanafiah Ahmad; Taofeeq Durojaye Moshood; Gusman Nawanir – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This study explores the impact of Industry Revolution 4.0 (IR4.0) on learning factory implementation in Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP). A learning factory is an action-oriented approach to teaching with participants acquiring competencies through structured self-learning processes in a production-technological learning environment. It…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Active Learning, Universities, Teaching Methods
Jiaoying Ji; Saifon Songsiengchai; Clinton Chidiebere Anyanwu; Nur Fauziyah – International Education Studies, 2025
This study focused on freshmen at Yunnan Normal University. The research objectives were threefold: (1) to investigate the role of self-regulatory methods in enhancing students' autonomous learning ability, (2) to study the differences between the control group and the experimental group, and (3) to determine if students are satisfied with…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Metacognition, Foreign Countries, Independent Study
Wiktoria Szawiel; Mónica Raleiras – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2025
This article seeks to discuss narratives underlying the debate on artistic training and (self)education of artists in two distinguished moments: the sixteenth-century Italian Mannerism and nineteenth-century artistic movements which opposed academic instruction. Mannerist treatises were the first to encompass aesthetic and pedagogical concerns in…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Criticism, Art History, Artists
Mitra, Sugata – Prospects, 2022
Education that does not include an understanding of the Internet and how to live with it, is deficient. This article describes how the Internet can be learned in schools, what the curriculum for such learning should be at various stages of schooling, what pedagogical methods should be used to achieve the learning objectives and what methods should…
Descriptors: Internet, Intellectual Disciplines, Teaching Methods, Curriculum
Thomas Howard Morris; George Koutsouris; Lauren Stentiford; Nicholas Bremner – Review of Education, 2025
There is a dearth of knowledge regarding how self-directed learning and inclusion relate as concepts. In this paper, we explore how self-directed learning and inclusion are discussed together in the educational literature. With the aim of advancing our conceptual and theoretical understanding in this regard, we present the findings of a systematic…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Inclusion, Journal Articles, Adult Education
Wong Sing Yun; Sarimah Surianshah – International Journal of Technology in Education, 2024
The emergence of innovative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, such as ChatGPT, which was just released in November 2022, has the potential to significantly transform the current state of education. Put another way, learning is changing as a result of chatbots' personalized assistance, group discussions and collaborations, evaluations of…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Computer Software, Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education
Saltanat Kenesbekova; Aigul Mukhametzhanova; Marzhangul Kussainova; Sayan Zhanbyrbayeva; Laura Alipbayeva – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2024
A modern specialist's ability to self-educate is a valuable professional quality. Education has been given the essential responsibility to develop the learners' readiness for self-education (RSE). However, university students experience difficulties organizing and implementing self-educational activities. The study's goal is to investigate the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Independent Study, Professional Education
Ernesto Pacheco-Velazquez; Virginia Rodés Paragarino; Leonardo David Glasserman; Martina Carlos Arroyo – Journal of International Education in Business, 2024
Purpose: Higher education is undergoing a significant transformation, demanding a rethinking of instructional methods, the establishment of novel assessment frameworks and the incorporation of state-of-the-art technologies to advance the development of learning competencies. The use of simulations is an alternative that offers satisfactory results…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Independent Study
Kaplan, Sandra N. – Gifted Child Today, 2023
The classroom can become the primary source to introduce students to the processes that promote opportunities for self-differentiation or personal intellectual challenges. A missing component in some differentiated experiences is the need to provide gifted students with opportunities to gain the independence that fosters their abilities to assume…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Gifted Education, Independent Study, Self Concept
Xiong, Qinjing; Ju, Yucui – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2023
The concept of Tao occupies a core position in Taoism and even the entire Chinese classical philosophy. For philosophical Taoism, 'Tao' is the ultimate reality. Therefore, exploring Taoist epistemology, its role in governance, education and self-cultivation is necessary. The only way that can be approached beyond human ability to fathom 'Tao' is…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Philosophy, Asian Culture, Religion
Rieger, Georg W.; McIver, Jess; Mazabel, Silvia; Burkholder, Eric W. – Physics Teacher, 2023
It is often challenging for physics instructors to dedicate time during a course to engage students in developing strategic approaches to learning in addition to problem-solving skills and content knowledge. In this work, we introduce a simple modification to our teaching practice with the purpose of fostering student development of self-regulated…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Introductory Courses, Physics, Science Instruction
Scott-Muenter, Mary Suzanne – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study investigated the self-directed learning (SDL) attributes of call center employees and explored the impact of an adaptive learning intervention used within the corporate training program. In order to explore the perception of the learners, the self-rated scale of self-directed learner readiness (SRSSDLR) survey instrument was used to…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Employees, Intervention, Learning Readiness
Irit Sasson; Sigal Tifferet – European Journal of Education, 2025
Developing students' metacognitive awareness and self-efficacy is crucial for fostering independent learning and higher-order thinking skills, especially in research-related tasks. Despite the widespread recognition of the importance of cultivating higher-order thinking skills in higher education, there remains a significant gap in our…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Centered Learning, Intervention, Metacognition