Encouraging self-directed learning by spiralling through a course

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Research and Development in Higher Education Vol. 28: Higher education in a changing world

July, 2005, 639 pages
Published by
Angela Brew and Christine Asmar
ISBN
0 908557 62 0
Abstract 

The paper outlines the results of a personal journey to reconcile the preference for developing adult learning approaches in undergraduate information systems students with their preference for more dependent approaches. The introduction of Grow’s Staged Self-Directed Learning model and an innovation by the author involving deliberately repeating the course material is shown to provide a powerful means of developing adult learning preferences.

Keywords: pedagogy, adult learning, self-directed learning