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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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