Self-directed learning

SDL- self-directed learning is important for adult education. It is a process accompanied and supported by behavioral actives involved in the identification and searching out of information. And the purpose of that is to develop self-directed learners. Thus, it is easy to see that for SDL, the most important thing is desire and ability. Why desire? Image that nobody asks you to read the book, no classes. If you want, you probably could abandon everything. In this point, the desire of learning is important. How to motivate the students is the problems teachers face to. Second is the ability. A student wants to learn, but he or she doesn’t know how to learn is a very sad thing. In this case, teachers should use the fitful strategies to support these kinds of students for learning. Therefore, the impact of online learning on the SDL is: 1) planning, 2) monitoring, 3) evaluating. Thus, study of SDL is significant and is also a new area of exploration. Lot more has to be done to identify many attributes and resources, enabling better online teaching and developing better self developed learners.

Entrance

Let's follow the steps: as a Finance major student, I always try to take some relaxative and novel course in the U of L. That's why I am in Edu4766. Don't need to go to the classtoom; don't need purchase any text book; don't have any quiz and exam. Wow...... These are fabulous.

Before taking this course, I took Edu 4767 during summer session, an another course based on website. I felt blog is very useful for an online course. In Edu 4767, we created different topics and gave different opinions through weblogs. The discussions were drastic and long. Students can input their words anytime and anywhere. In our class, a topic always received responses all day long and keeps for several days. The weblog did give us an convenient environment for online course learning.

However, I feel online course is much more traning oriented than the education. What's eduction? Education is something left after you forget all the knowledge you learned before. Education is something more than the knowledge; education is an ability to sum up, conclude, and study something useful from lives, books, experiences, etc...

What I want to say is weblog is an great tool to support online learning, because it can give an environment for everyone join the class, meanwhile gives each students personal spaces.