Self-Directed Learning Improves Quality of Life

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Noorriati Din
Shireen Haron
Rahmah Mohd Rashid

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The SeDLE (Self-directed Learning Environment) Index is developed to measure the strength and ability of the learning environment to facilitate self-directed learning. This is a conceptual paper to explain the development and validation of the SeDLE index. Evidence showed that a self-directed learning environment exhibits a self-directed learner in promoting one's quality of life. The self-directed environment will support and inhibit the ability to function with less supervision among learners thus viewed as a solution to reduce the problem of spoon feeding in the classrooms.

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Din, N., Haron, S., & Mohd Rashid, R. (2018). Self-Directed Learning Improves Quality of Life. Journal of ASIAN Behavioural Studies, 3(10), 154–161. https://doi.org/10.21834/jabs.v3i10.314

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