What is a self-directed learning process?

 “All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.” – Martin H. Fischer

What is a self-directed learning process?

It is the knowledge of some steps to achieve goals  in  academic or personal fields, which each individual determines what  s/he want to reach, how s/he will get it, when, where and who else go to take part on it.

A self-directed learning process should have some aspects to be developed;

• Students or people immersed in a self-directed learning process must know their   abilities and skills and identify their weaknesses and work on them.
• They need to set goals for short and long term and work on them being discipline,   having time management and being able to set work in a team,  when it needs.
• A student or person  who want to be part of a self-directed process needs to look for own resources apart  from given by  the tutor, s/he needs to  have an open mind to read and listen other´s ideas and enrich or refuse them, support by their arguments or base on author´s ideas. It means to take knowledge to the world sphere of the ideas and change and transform them, since then collaborative knowledge building.
• A self-directed learner should be able to create their own process of  assessment by analyzing his/her performance and at the same time to accept other´s suggestions and recommendations, check, retake, and re-think  plans to work on them.
• A self-direct learner needs to take his/her context (school, college, job, etc) the new insights and observe the applicability in other´s spaces.
• The self directed learner needs to be aware that the new knowledge and experiences should be taken to a context (school, college, job, etc)
• The self-directed learner should identify clearly the concepts autonomy and freedom to build any process of learning.