This interview focuses on the qualities and characteristics of autonomous learners, the related concept of learner training, and self-assessment. (Contains eight references.) (JL)

A nursing education course at the Medical University of South Carolina focuses on the student as a person, a learner, and a professional. Important components of the course are the principles and concepts of adult learning that incorporate concepts of self-directed learning and self-awareness. (Author/JOW)

In direct self-education, an individual makes discoveries without the influence of others' experience. Sources of choices among learning materials, the outputs of personal skills and knowledge, and results of selection choices are other elements of self-education. (SK)

The essays in this section offer different possibilities and prospects for first-time fieldwork and make a strong case for directly supervised early fieldwork that includes peer collaboration and individual activity. (SLD)

Observes that the tendency to question pushes some gifted students toward self-directed inquiry and supports their academic talent. Considers ways to nurture all students, especially the ones who don't question much on their own. Explores the author's experience in guiding her students toward becoming self-directed learners and guiding them to…

Behavior modeling has changed to meet the challenges of the new work environment. The following delivery combinations offer efficiency and effectiveness: classroom based, classroom followed by self-study, self-study followed by classroom, and self-study and on-the-job practice. (JOW)

Three methods were used to train 450 Navy personnel in a new computer system: instruction, exploration, or behavior modeling. When learning style matched method, trainees were more successful and satisfied. Behavior modeling training was not influenced by learning style. This group had the highest satisfaction and computer use. (Contains 58…

Alexis de Tocqueville deplored democratic institutions' tendency to thwart people's awakened passion for equality. America is the G7 country with the greatest inequality-now more than previously. Capitalist democracy goes to extremes, producing destructive, de-democratizing imbalances, despite the growing popularity of obedience and "virtue…

The feedback connected to some action made by a learner is discussed and the interactive compensatory model of learning (ICML) is described. It is suggested that instruction usually could be described in one of three approaches, namely direct, socially mediated, and autonomous learning.

This paper is a workshop report of an empirical study called DISUM, which deals with appropriate teacher interventions in the course of students' independence-oriented modelling processes. The project aims at developing and investigating corresponding instructional conceptions, based on an intensive analysis of modelling tasks and of students'…

An experiment was conducted in the context of a problem-based learning course to investigate the influence of a learning-goal-free problem scenario on the quality and quantity of individual study. In half of the tutorial groups, the problem scenario was constructed in such a way that it provided useful learning issues (goal-specified condition),…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine how Malaysian managers acquire job competencies through self-directed learning activities at their workplace. Specifically it aims to investigate what types of job competencies are required for the managers, how they learn to acquire those competencies, and whether the managers have the…

The authors designed a computer-based approach to enhance motivation and self-regulated learning. Participants of the quasi-experimental study were 6th-grade students (N = 151) who worked with a mathematics-learning software program during regular classroom instruction. In the 1st condition, students received attributional software-generated…

The online educational environment is increasingly being used by adults and should be designed based on the needs of adult learners. This article discusses andragogy, an important adult learning theory, and reviews three other adult learning theories: self-directed learning, experiential learning, and transformational learning. During this…

This paper connects an online learning model to the rights to education that the online educational environments can provide. The model emerges from a study of ninety-two online learners and is composed of three kinds of inquiries, namely, independent inquiry, collaborative inquiry, and formative inquiry towards expert knowledge. Online learners…