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Rahimi, Ebrahim; van den Berg, Jan; Veen, Wim – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2015
In recent educational literature, it has been observed that improving student's control has the potential of increasing his or her feeling of ownership, personal agency and activeness as means to maximize his or her educational achievement. While the main conceived goal for personal learning environments (PLEs) is to increase student's control by…
Descriptors: Web 2.0 Technologies, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Locus of Control
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Boyer, Stefanie L.; Edmondson, Diane R.; Artis, Andrew B.; Fleming, David – Journal of Marketing Education, 2014
A meta-analytic review of self-directed learning (SDL) research over 30 years, five countries, and across multiple academic disciplines is used to explore its relationships with five key nomologically related constructs for effective workplace learning. The meta-analysis revealed positive relationships between SDL and internal locus of control,…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Learning Processes, Student Motivation, Marketing
1997
This document contains four papers from a symposium on adult learning in the workplace. The first paper, "Measuring Critical Thinking: Is There a Single Instrument?" (Patricia K. Leitsch, Carol A. Lentz), examines two issues: the relationship between tests measuring critical thinking and those measuring readiness for self-directed…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Andragogy, Computer Literacy