introduction: working in the complex and ever changing healthcare settings forces the nurses and nursing students to be equipped with lifelong learning skills. one of the lifelong learning skills is self-directed learning. this study aimed to explore the m.sc. nursing students’ self-directed learning activities. methods: a qualitative design using conventional content analysis approach was used...

We hypothesized that the intellectual development of students, i.e., their beliefs about the nature of knowledge and learning, affects their intrinsic motivation and class performance. Specifically, we hypothesized that students with low intellectual development (i.e., the naive beliefs that knowledge is simple, absolute, and certain) have low intrinsic motivation and low class performance, whe...

Despite the emergence of e-learning trends, the author cocitation analysis (ACA) method has not yet been used to analyze e-learning extensively. This study applies ACA to analyze the collected literature on e-learning from 19812015, with the goal of identifying the top intellectual areas in three time periods – 1981-1991, 1992-2002, and 2003-2014 to provide a reference framework for future rese...

The word of “learning”, in a wide sense, is used as a part of the social system of education and it has been attracting researchers’ interest in our research area of educational systems. The goal of this research is to support creation and inheritance of organizational intellect, that is, “learning” in an organization. In this paper, we will propose an “Intellectual Genealogy Graph,” which is a...

In this paper general tendencies of adaptive learning are described, which are becoming more and more common in the time when IT technologies and use of internet as well as development of web systems is live topic in researches about technology enchanted learning with the aid of intellectual learning systems. Adaptive learning analysis, intellectual tutoring system description and general ITS s...