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Is Self-directed Learning for You?
Education (learning) is not a mass customer industry: its a personal industry. Therefore, authentic learning requires a significant personal investment on the part of the learner. Despite what many may think, learning is not only about access, affordability, degrees, or certificates.
Education is fundamentally about learning concepts and skills that we do not acquire naturally through our normal interaction with the world. Authentic learning therefore, takes a great deal of time, personal effort, and is often very uncomfortable.
Traditional brick-and-mortar institutions work best for learners who are often seeking value other than knowledge (a degree, a door opener to a job etc.). Furthermore, the traditional model has scaled to a rather rigid and formalized process of learning. By the way, that traditional model of education was invented hundreds of years ago, has not adapted much to modern learning principles, and may be even less relevant today.
There is however, a small group of learners out there (self-directed), who do not benefit as much from the traditional model. Moreover, self-directed learners are not always fully-engaged even within the so called 'modern' MOOC style learning environments.
Are You A Self-directed Learner?
Answer the following seven questions. If you answer six or more of the questions YES, then self directed learning might be better for you.
If you are already a self-directed learner, you probably don't need to be told where to find content to support your personal learning agenda. However, sometimes we can miss a gem or two and therefore, have a look at the following.
Self-directed Learning Resources
AcademyBridge: Curated Business Education Video site delivering FREE access to 1,000's of business education videos and learning modules (updated daily). Academy Bridge is great for learners who benefit most from video content.
Carnegie Mellon University: Open Learning Initiative has 27 online courses available FREE. Each course also offers a unique target feedback process for learners.
MERLOT: Curated collection on online FREE multimedia educational resources for learning and online teaching.
MIT OpenCourseware: MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is the Grand Daddy of all Open Educational Resource Initiatives.
Open Washington: Open Educational Resources Network. Open textbooks, course material, video and images.
University of Wisconsin: Open Textbook Library has FREE textbooks covering many different disciplines.
The author has curated thee above resources related to open education and is associated with AcademyBridge
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Is Self-directed Learning for You?
Education (learning) is not a mass customer industry: its a personal industry. Therefore, authentic learning requires a significant personal investment on the part of the learner. Despite what many may think, learning is not only about access, affordability, degrees, or certificates.
Education is fundamentally about learning concepts and skills that we do not acquire naturally through our normal interaction with the world. Authentic learning therefore, takes a great deal of time, personal effort, and is often very uncomfortable.
Traditional brick-and-mortar institutions work best for learners who are often seeking value other than knowledge (a degree, a door opener to a job etc.). Furthermore, the traditional model has scaled to a rather rigid and formalized process of learning. By the way, that traditional model of education was invented hundreds of years ago, has not adapted much to modern learning principles, and may be even less relevant today.
There is however, a small group of learners out there (self-directed), who do not benefit as much from the traditional model. Moreover, self-directed learners are not always fully-engaged even within the so called 'modern' MOOC style learning environments.
Are You A Self-directed Learner?
Answer the following seven questions. If you answer six or more of the questions YES, then self directed learning might be better for you.
If you are already a self-directed learner, you probably don't need to be told where to find content to support your personal learning agenda. However, sometimes we can miss a gem or two and therefore, have a look at the following.
Self-directed Learning Resources
AcademyBridge: Curated Business Education Video site delivering FREE access to 1,000's of business education videos and learning modules (updated daily). Academy Bridge is great for learners who benefit most from video content.
Carnegie Mellon University: Open Learning Initiative has 27 online courses available FREE. Each course also offers a unique target feedback process for learners.
MERLOT: Curated collection on online FREE multimedia educational resources for learning and online teaching.
MIT OpenCourseware: MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is the Grand Daddy of all Open Educational Resource Initiatives.
Open Washington: Open Educational Resources Network. Open textbooks, course material, video and images.
University of Wisconsin: Open Textbook Library has FREE textbooks covering many different disciplines.
The author has curated thee above resources related to open education and is associated with AcademyBridge
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