Tips for Effective SDL

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Twelve Tips for EffectiveSelf-directed Learning

Khalid Bin AbdulrahmanMD, DPHC, ABFM, AF, MHSc (MEd)

Associate Professor of Family Medicine


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Introduction

Continuing process

We know how to be taught; we havent learn

how to learn

Most learning is informal and self-directed innature


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What is learning

A continuing process resulting in some

modification, relatively permanent, of theway ofthinking, feeling, doing, of thelearners


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Learning means making use of every

resource in or out of educational institutions

for our personal growth and development


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What is SDL?

Is the process for which the individual learner

takes the initiative and the responsibility (with orwithout help) to assess educational needs, set

goals and objectives, plan and identify

appropriate educational activities, implement

those activities, and evaluate the outcomes.


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Why SDL?


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Since the establishment of the medicine at King Saud University in .

A.H.), the curriculum has always been the..

of investigation and evaluation. The college.to draw on the experience of other colleges of

in different countries and several

have been reviewed. The annual system was

at the time of opening the college in 1969


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Proactive vs reactive learner The initiative learners ( proactive ):

* learn more things

* learn better

* enter into learning more purposefully

* with greater motivation* tend to retain & make use of what they

learn better & longer


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Psychological development SDL is more in tune with our natural process of

psychological development

When we are born we are totally dependent

As we grow and mature we develop the need for

independence


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Match the new movement in

adult education

Pedagogy VS andragogy

PBL Curricula

Computer-based education

So, prepare learners


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Life long learning Skills

We must learn from everything we do

We must exploit every experience as a

learning experience

Every institution in the community becomes

a resource for learning


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When SDL becomes more powerful?When we decide:

1. What areas of knowledge and skills we need to

gain in order to get something done (our learningneeds and goals)

2. How we will gain the areas of knowledge and

skills (our learning objectives and activities)

3. How we will know that we've gained the areas of

knowledge and skills (learning evaluation)


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Twelve Tips for Effective SDL


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1.Identify your learning needs

Your self

Your patients

Your peers / colleagues

Your students

Your teachers Others; e.g. family members


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2.Translate learning needs into

learning objectives

Specific

Feasible

At appropriate level of specificity or

generality

Personally meaningful

Measurable as to accomplishment


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3.Identify educational resources

Be able to identify human & material

resources appropriate to different kinds of

learning objectives


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4.Organize learning activities

Be able to select effective strategies for

making use of learning resources & to

perform these strategies skillfully & with

initiative


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5.Set a doable and practical plan

Dont be idealistic; try first, with feasible

learning activity

Time schedule


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6.Set a learning contract

Learning objectives

Learning resources & strategies

Evidence of accomplishment

Criteria & means of validating evidence


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7.Make use of electronic resources

Dont be the last onelearn

how to use it effectively

Be selective

Time management
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8.Maintain high motivation

Internal factors

External factors

Incentives


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9.Be skillful time manager

First things first

Learn & practice


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Priority Table

Urgent Not urgent

Important

Not important


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10.Be skillful critical reader Select appropriate;

1. reading materials,

2. time &

3. place

Scan the contents

Scan the summary

Be critical reader Highlights &/or take notes

Self-assessment


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11.Self-assessment

Written test / practical exam

Peer discussion

Discussion with tutor or resource person

practice


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12.Evaluate educational process

The whole process

You may ask for external evaluator


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Thank you

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