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Although self-direction is among the most critical skills required of today's engineering graduates, the complex processes through which individuals develop the attitudes, beliefs, and skills of lifelong, self-directed learners remains unclear. In this ongoing mixed-methods investigation, we draw on existing motivation and self-regulated learning theories to examine how undergraduate students at two...
Although lifelong learning is among the most critical skills required of today's engineering graduates, the complex processes through which individuals develop the attitudes, beliefs, and skills of lifelong learners remains unclear. Instructors have only begun to understand the impacts of academic background, institutional climate, and pedagogy on students' development of the motivations and learning...
Lifelong learning is a worldwide practice. It supposes another approach to learning and, consequently, to evaluation. In the present paper differences between traditional and lifelong learning are presented, and reasons to another type of evaluation are outlined. Lifelong learning offers a waste amount of assessment tools that aimed to develop individuals and increase their motivation. As an example...
In the context of globalization and the emergent “knowledge society,” the concept of building a learning society has been proposed in China and lifelong learning has been adopted as a common educational organizing principle for the 21st century. Adult education, as one form of lifelong learning, is under rapid development. Adult learners are very different from school students in learning styles due...
Calls for educational reform emphasize the need for student-centered learning approaches that foster lifelong learning. To be a lifelong learner includes characteristics consistent with those of self-directed learners, such as being curious, motivated, reflective, analytical, persistent, flexible, and independent. Instructor support of students' self-directed learning (SDL) development relies on understanding...
Students' development of self-directed and lifelong learning capacities is vital for their success in today's engineering environment. Instructors play a critical role in influencing outcomes related to self-directed learning (SDL) through their design of courses that support students' transitions from controlled to autonomous learning behaviors. Yet there is a critical lack of research examining...
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