Introduction: Self-directed learning development and promotion is one of the major goals of higher education. Since the students are expected to reach a level of individual competence at which they can detect and meet their educational needs without necessarily being in a special educational system and ultimately they can evaluate their learning. Methods: This research is a review on some art...

Introduction: Self directed learning has become a focus for nursing education in the past few decades due to the complexity and changes in nursing profession development. The relationship between self directed learning and learning styles is detectable in different learning situations. This study was performed to determine nursing students' readiness for self-directed learning and also identify...

Introduction: Students need acquiring self-directed learning readiness in order to enable to keep up to date their knowledge and professional competence after leaving the university. The aim of this study was to determine the capacity of current medical education system to create self-directed learning readiness for students. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, self-directed learning readin...

Nowadays, updated knowledge and skills and being self directed learners are the prerequisite for success in college and organizational learning. There has been a lot of concern about self directed learning as a key issue in higher education systems. Self directed learning, derived from adult education, is also influenced by other variables like efficiency of faculty teaching and research self e...

Introduction: Self-directed learning development and promotion is one of the major goals of higher education. Since the students are expected to reach a level of individual competence at which they can detect and meet their educational needs without necessarily being in a special educational system and ultimately they can evaluate their learning. The purpose of this study was to validate the se...

Background & Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic has created a stressful teaching and learning environment that puts it out of its dynamic state and puts most of the learning burden on the student. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between educational environment and self-directed learning in undergraduate nursing students. Materials & Methods: In this cross-sectional desc...

Abstract Introduction: E-Learning is one of the most important and favorable topics in the scientific society and they attempt to facilitate the complexities aspects of human being learning.This research aimed to investigate the mediating role of life orientation on the effect of metacognitive learning and self-directed learning on e-learning level in universities’ managers.The present study wa...