Who are Self-Discovery Learners…Online?: A Literature Review

Who are Self-Discovery Learners…Online?: A Literature Review

ISBN13: 9781613503201|ISBN10: 1613503202|EISBN13: 9781613503218
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-320-1.ch002
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Hai-Jew, Shalin. "Who are Self-Discovery Learners…Online?: A Literature Review." Constructing Self-Discovery Learning Spaces Online: Scaffolding and Decision Making Technologies, edited by Shalin Hai-Jew, IGI Global, 2012, pp. 13-23. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61350-320-1.ch002

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Hai-Jew, S. (2012). Who are Self-Discovery Learners…Online?: A Literature Review. In S. Hai-Jew (Ed.), Constructing Self-Discovery Learning Spaces Online: Scaffolding and Decision Making Technologies (pp. 13-23). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61350-320-1.ch002

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Hai-Jew, Shalin. "Who are Self-Discovery Learners…Online?: A Literature Review." In Constructing Self-Discovery Learning Spaces Online: Scaffolding and Decision Making Technologies, edited by Shalin Hai-Jew, 13-23. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2012. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61350-320-1.ch002

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Abstract

Self-discovery learning may be understood in multiple ways—as a state of expertise and learning maturity; as an attitude and approach to self-directed learning; as a perceptive and learning stance to the world; as a minor everyday skill for informal information-seeking, and even as an inherent part of the self-discovery learner. It is this last conceptualization that is addressed in this chapter, which explores who self-discovery learners are and what their learning needs may be. Self-discovery learning may be a human character trait. Further, this chapter explores who self-discovery learners are online and how they behave in those spaces. Given the sparseness of the research data, this work proposes questions of how future researchers may further define self-discovery learners online. Finally, this work offers some suggestions for how those online spaces may be evolved to more closely meet the needs of self-discovery learners.

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