ANANDGOWDA.S ASST.PROF COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING YENEPOYA NURSING COLLEGE, MANGALURU

1. SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING
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2. INTRODUCTION:
Self directed learning is an increasingly
popular topic educators and trainers now a days
attracted to self-directed learning applications for
a successive learner initiating the learning. Now a
days self-directed learning is also called as online
learning.
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3. • Self activity as the basic principle of
learning is universal in its application. An
individual can learn only through her own
reactions to situations.
• There can be no learning where there has
been no self activity. This principle of self
activity may be stated simply: A student
learns through her own activities.
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4. DEFINITION:
Self –directed learning is a process in
which the learner initiating learning,
making decisions about what and how to
learn self in order to achieve a particular
task.
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5. • Self-directed learning as a “process in
which individuals take initiative, with or
without the help of others, in diagnosing
their own learning needs, formulating
goals, identifying human and material
resources for learning, choosing and
implementing appropriate learning
strategies and evaluating learning
outcomes.”
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6. In self directed learning is a process in which
the learner initiating and the responsibility for
what occurs. Individuals select, manage and assess
their own learning activities which can be pursued
at any time, in any place, through any means, at
any age. In schools, teachers can work toward SDL
a stage at a time.
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7. • For the individual SDL involves initiating
personal challenge activities and developing
the personal qualities to pursue them
successfully.
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8. Purposes:
• To plan and participate in one’s own learning
activities.
• To develop the capacity of learning and thinking
of learner.
• To develop the sense of independence by
enhancing emancipatory learning.
• To develop the problem solving approaches.
• To develop time management skills.
• To develop desicion making skills.
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9. BENEFITS OF SELF- DIRECTED
LEARNING:
• Taking responsibility for one’s own learning
leads to-
• Increase self esteem
• Improves the knowledge and learning skills.
• It enhance the thinking ability of the learner.
• Promotes a self- awareness.
• Helps in decision making.
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10. What characterizes the
self-directed learner
• They ask questions.
• They’re organized and focused.
• They’re responsible and hard working.
• They’re creative and curious.
• They’re self-evaluative and reflective.
• They go beyond the required.
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11. SELF DIRECTED LEARNING
PROCESS
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12. Process:
It involves a continual process of:
self -motivation
self-management
self-monitoring
self-modification
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13. Self-management:
Establishes clear goals
Thoroughly gathers information
Persistently stays with a task
Uses a systematic approach to problem
solving, organizational planning, and
decision-making.
Uses articulate, thoughtful communication
Continuous process
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14. Self-monitoring:
Consideration of the ramifications of
thoughts, plans, decisions, and actions
Metacognition - the process of consciously
monitoring one’s own thinking
Self –reflection - process of reflecting on
one’s own thinking patterns, plans,
decisions, and actions.
Self -evaluation
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15. Self-modification
Revises strategies and implies a great effort
to maximize his/her effectiveness based on
feedback
Changes in one’s behavior based on the data
gathered during self-monitoring and on feed
back received from others.
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16. Self-directed LearningModel
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17. StepsofSDL:
1.Deciding what detailed knowledge and skill to
learn;
2.Deciding the specific activities, methods, resources,
or equipment for learning;
3.Deciding where to learn;
4.Setting specific deadlines or intermediate targets;
5.Deciding when to begin a learning episode;
6.Deciding the pace at which to proceed during a
learning episode;
7.Estimating the current level of knowledge and skill
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18. Cont…
8.Detecting any factor that has been backing or
hindering learning;
9.Obtaining the desired resources or equipment;
10.Preparing or adapting a room;
11.Saving or obtain the money necessary for the use
of certain human or nonhuman resources;
12.Finding time for the learning; and
13.Taking certain steps to increase the motivation
for learning.
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19. SKILLS NEEDED TO AN EFFECTIVE
SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING:
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20. There are six kinds of cognitive skills appear to be
particularly important in successful self-directed
learning.
• Goal setting skills.
• Processing skills
• Decision making skills.
• Self awareness.
• Some competence or aptitude in the topic or a
closely related area.
• Other cognitive skills
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21. GOAL SETTINGS SKILLS:
• Here the individual identifies the problem rather
than developing a cognitive ability to engage in
problem identification and solving. They have a
good observation skill and ability to determine
what is important in their learning environment.
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22. PROCESSING SKILLS:
• Observing-the ability to see and understand.
• Seeing and translating- the ability to translate visual
information to notes and records.
• Reading-the ability to read, translate and
comprehend written material.
• Listening-the ability to receive and process aural
information and related it is existing information
schemes.
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23. DECISION MAKING SKILLS:
This denotes the learners thinking ability. Some
might refer to it as being logical in thought. Others
might prefer analytical. Hence the self-directed
learner must develop the ability to identify,
prioritize, select, validate, evaluate and interpret
information obtained through processing.
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24. SELF- AWARNESS.
The successful self- directed learner has the
ability to be aware self. It enables the individuals
to be aware of their learning processes their
weakness and strengths to know of their ability to
use different approach, to know how and what is
distracting in their environment, to know when
they need assistance, and to have a realistic
perception of their ability to achieve learning goal.
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25. CONTENT COMPETENCE:
Here some personal observation indicate that
people skilled in certain areas tend to emphasize
those while avoiding topics and activities in areas
in which they are less competent. For e.g.: one
who knows their own language may learn
another language based on knowledge of the
first language.
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26. OTHER COGNITIVE SKILLS:
• Sensory, including ability to select, identify and
classify information
• Memory-working memory is important in the
processing of information before it is assimilated
into existing long-term memory.
• Elaboration-includes the ability to take an item from
working memory and process it by imaging,
deducing, discriminating, generalizing etc.
• Problem solving and problem posing.
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27. ADVANTAGES OF SELF DIRECTED
LEARNING
• Self-directed learning allows learners to be more
effective learners and social beings
• Self-directed learners are curious and willing to
try new things.
• They can view problems as challenges, desire
change, and enjoy learning
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28. • Self-directed learners are motivated and
persistent, independent, self-disciplined, self-
confident and goal-oriented.
• self-directed learners demonstrate a greater
awareness of their responsibility in making
learning meaningful and monitoring themselves
• Self-directed learning encourages students to
develop their own rules and leadership patterns
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30. DISADVANTAGES
• Possible for frequent errors
• Self directed learning is quite time consuming.
• It needs an organized manner of planning;
inquiring skills, decision making and self
evaluation of work.
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31. ROLE OF TEACHERS IN SELF DIRECTED
LEARNING
• The teacher has to raise student awareness of
their roles in learning
• Learner participation in decision-making is
another fundamental aspect of the SDL
approach
• Teachers could establish a thematic framework
within which students are given choices
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32. • Teachers who want to encourage SDL must
free themselves from a preoccupation with
tracking and correcting errors
• To establish the habit of self-monitoring,
teachers need to encourage learners to reflect
on what they did and to revise attempted
work
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33. • Since SDL stresses meaningful learning, a situated
learning approach, in which teachers bring real-life
problems into the classroom for learners to work on.
• Finally, teachers need to model learning strategies
such as predicting, questioning, clarifying, and
summarizing, so that students will develop the ability
to use these strategies on their own. Teachers also
need to allow individual learners to approach a task in
different ways using different strategies
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34. APPLICATION OF SELF DIRECTED
LEARNING IN NURSING EDUCATION
• Individual projects
• Case studies
• The case analysis method
• The case incident method
• Debates in nursing
• Field work
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