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What is Self-Directedness

Chapter 20
Handbook of Research on Technologies for Improving the 21st Century Workforce: Tools for Lifelong Learning
A form of time and task regulation and management that comes from within the individual not from an external source.
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Online Graduate Programs and Intellectual Isolation: Fostering Technology-Mediated Interprofessional Learning Communities
Kathleen M. Kevany (Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Canada), Elizabeth Lange (St. Francis Xavier University, Canada), Chris Cocek (St. Francis Xavier University, Canada), and Catherine Baillie Abidi (St. Francis Xavier University, Canada)
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2181-7.ch020
Abstract
With more flexibility in higher education, the authors argue that online graduate programs have a significant but unrecognized potential for interprofessional learning. Interprofessional learning is an emerging trend that is considered necessary to address the “wicked problems” in our society that defy simple solutions, disciplinary silos, and cause/effect thinking. This chapter examines the challenges of: fostering good adult education pedagogy in an online context, encouraging peer collaboration and an intellectual culture in an online, self-directed graduate program, and creating the conditions for interprofessional learning.
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Cognitive Coaching: Shifting “Organizations for Learning” Into “Learning Organizations”
The ability and capacity to make decisions that assist one in achieving their own goals and objectives.
Published in Chapter: Cognitive Coaching: Shifting “Organizations for Learning” Into “Learning Organizations”; From: Coaching Applications and Effectiveness in Higher Education
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