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Sharon Clancy; Cilla Ross – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2024
In this article the authors explore the notion of 'common good' in relation to adult education. They do this by drawing upon the experiences of working-class family members who were both social learners and autodidacts, and who engaged in learning for their own sake and for what they believed to be the common good. The authors use diaries, letters…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Ethics, Working Class, Socialization
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Andrea Vaughans; Jobila Sy – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2024
This chapter describes the implementation and impact of a remediation program in the health sciences. Lessons learned are explored based on common academic difficulties students experience in remediation programs with an emphasis on self-regulated learning outcomes.
Descriptors: Remedial Programs, Health Sciences, Self Management, Independent Study
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Thabang Donald Mokoena; Gideon Petrus van Tonder – International Journal of Educational Management, 2024
Purpose: This paper aims to determine the impact of mentorship on the development of self-directedness among beginner teachers in their initial years of teaching. Design/methodology/approach: The researcher adopted a positivist paradigm to explore the situation of concern. Quantitative research was conducted, involving the collection and analysis…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers, Professional Autonomy, Mentors
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Xiao Wen; Hu Juan – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
To address three issues identified in previous research this study proposes a clustering-based MOOC dropout identification method and an early prediction model based on deep learning. The MOOC learning behavior of self-paced students was analyzed, and two well-known MOOC datasets were used for analysis and validation. The findings are as follows:…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Dropouts, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Research
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Katy Farber; Rachel Mark – Middle Grades Review, 2024
How do service learning and self-directed learning connect and what are the implications for early adolescent students? The authors explore both the service learning and self-directed learning literature and research to discover the connections between the two approaches and concepts. This essay reviews existing frameworks for self-directed…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Service Learning, Early Adolescents, Student Development
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Woldeab, Daniel; Punti, Gemma; Bohannon, Richard – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
This study explores the lived experiences of individualized and interdisciplinary students enrolled in a 4-year public university in the Upper Midwest region of the United States. Those enrolled in this individualized degree program are working adults with significant family, work, and life obligations. As Brookfield (2006), Knowles (1980), and…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Student Experience, Student Empowerment, Responsibility
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Athitaya Nitchot; Lester Gilbert – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2025
Several educational mapping techniques include mind mapping, concept mapping, knowledge mapping and competence mapping. This research used pedagogically informed competence maps featuring subject matter and learner capabilities. Mytelemap, a prototype tool, helps learners structure and visualise competence maps and provides study links based on…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Concept Mapping, Competence, Achievement Gains
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Patrick Bijsmans; Jeanine de Bruin; Afke Groen – European Journal of Higher Education, 2025
The transition from high school to university often amounts to a muddled process, making it both an exciting and challenging time for many undergraduate students. Integrating both academically and socially is key in this respect. Social support from peers and teaching staff, but also from family and friends, can have a decisive impact. A learning…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, High School Graduates, College Freshmen, Problem Based Learning
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Kaylin Ratner; Hou Xie; Gaoxia Zhu; Melody Estevez; Anthony L. Burrow – Child Development, 2025
Purpose offers several important benefits to youth. Thus, it is necessary to understand "how" a sense of purpose develops in supportive contexts and "what" psychological resources can help. From 2021 to 2022, this study investigated purpose change among 321 youth (M[subscript age] = 16.4 years; 71% female; 25.9% Black, 33.3%…
Descriptors: Student Educational Objectives, Independent Study, Student Attitudes, Personal Autonomy
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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
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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
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André Moura; Ann MacPhail; Amândio Graça; Paula Batista – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2024
Purpose: Improving students' learning is dependent on students' participation, meaningfulness, and value of the teaching--learning process. This study explores students' learning experiences when undertaking the role of co-constructors and co- and self-regulators in a cooperative learning environment. Methods: The study included 110 school…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Cooperative Learning, Preservice Teachers, Student Experience
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Min Young Doo; Meina Zhu – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2024
Background: Online learning has become more prevalent over the past three decades, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Educators and scholars have increasingly emphasized the significance of self-directed learning (SDL) on successful learning outcomes in online learning environments. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to synthesize the…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Independent Study, Virtual Classrooms, Academic Achievement
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Arsad Bahri; Wahyu Hidayat M.; Kurnia Prima Putra; Nur Aisyah Ainun; Nurheni Arifin – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2024
This study aims to determine the relationship between students' perception to the learning media, digital literacy skills, and self-regulated learning with students' cognitive learning outcomes in the rural area. This study was the ex post facto with quantitative data. The method used was differential causal comparative with multiple linear…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Rural Schools, Outcomes of Education, Foreign Countries
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Imogen Casebourne – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2024
This study investigated the seamless mobile learning practices of UK government workers at various life stages, to understand how context impacted decisions about how, when and where learning was undertaken. Following Hedegaard, the context was understood as involving settings embedded within institutions. Drawing on analysis of data from public…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Government Employees, Workplace Learning, Handheld Devices
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