Education Week

Self-Directed Learning

Guests: Ken Danford, executive director of North Star: Self Directed Learning for Teens; and Catherine Gobron, North Star’s assistant director. Anthony Rebora, teachermagazine.org (Moderator): Welcome ...
Government Technology

How Can Students Hone Self-Directed Learning Skills?

Two years after colleges and universities made the drastic shift to full remote learning during COVID-19, students are accustomed to the flexibility afforded by online courses. With growing ...
Education Week

How Motivated Are Students to Drive Their Own Learning?

Doing well in school isn’t just about being able to read dense books and solve complex math problems. There are other, less tangible qualities that help students succeed, like having the courage to ...
Psychology Today

Three Key Concepts That Enhance Educational Potential

For example, Edwards-Groves (2012) points out that “[i]n contemporary educational media ‘explicit teaching’ has been ...
The Hechinger Report

‘Self-directed learning’ skills are key to making remote instruction work

The Hechinger Report is a national nonprofit newsroom that reports on one topic: education. Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get stories like this delivered directly to your inbox. Consider ...
inforum

Fargo Public Schools approves 2 new schools focused on self-directed learning, mental health

FARGO — The Fargo school board has voted to establish two new academic models or “schools” in the district — one prioritizing individualized learning and the other mental health. During its Tuesday, ...
Psychology Today

Self-Determined Learning: Fanning Sparks Into Flames

If you want someone to be motivated to complete a task, a reward (like a gold star or grade) works well only for tasks that are highly routine; anything involving creativity or deeper thinking ...

Universities can turn AI from a threat to an opportunity by teaching critical thinking

Use AI as a partner, not a threat: Students can be asked to critique AI-generated responses, identify gaps, or adapt them for ...
Online Recruitment

Employees turning to self-directed learning to increase skills development and agility at work throughout the pandemic

New insights from Cornerstone OnDemand reveal three-fold increase in self-directed learning across Europe since Q1 2020, with a 6x spike from July to October 2020 The pandemic is driving employees’ ...
inforum

Fargo Public Schools' Self-Directed Academy to add another grade next fall

FARGO — A new academic model that just finished its inaugural year in Fargo Public Schools will be expanded this fall. The Self-Directed Academy, currently offering grades six through eight, will add ...
JSTOR Daily

Extracting stages of learning habits from year-long self-directed extensive reading logs

This study focuses on the problem that the process of building learning habits has not been clearly described. Therefore, we aim to extract the stages of learning habits from log data. We propose a ...