<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . . "Does Mobile Learning Foster Self-Directed Learning?"^^ . "With the ever-evolving educational technology trends, distance learning is\r\nnow able to provide tremendous opportunities of learning that were barely possible\r\nbefore. Despite that, distance education institutions are still continuing the battle with\r\none of their most challenging issue, which is high learner dropout. There is a notion\r\nthat learners will be more successful and less prone to dropout when their learning is\r\nself-directed (Uba, 1997). Recently, research showed that mobile learning encouraged\r\nlearners to be self-directed and there was a substantial decline in dropouts (Attewell,\r\nSavill-Smith, Douch, 2009). This paper is a further effort to investigate the potential of\r\nmobile learning to support self-directed learning and aims to highlight the effect of\r\nmobile learning using short messaging services (SMS) on learners’ self-direction for\r\nlearning. In the study, SMS text messages were sent to mobile phones of science\r\nteachers who were undertaking the Bachelor of Teaching Program at Open University\r\nMalaysia. Data was collected using survey questionnaire as well as interview method\r\nwhereby 35 participants responded to the questionnaire and two were interviewed. The\r\nassessment of self-directed learning was based on the theories of self-directed learning\r\nsuggested by Brockett and Hiemstra (1991) and Candy (1991). The findings show how\r\nlearners exhibited ownership of learning due to mobile learning through their goals and\r\nplans for learning, strategies and processes of learning and self-evaluation of their\r\nlearning. The study also discusses issues that these teachers faced when using mobile\r\ntechnologies for self-directed learning. (Abstract by authors)"^^ . "2012-10-16" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Jung"^^ . "Insung"^^ . "Jung Insung"^^ . . "Kaur"^^ . "Abtar"^^ . "Kaur Abtar"^^ . . "Kaur"^^ . "Harvinder"^^ . "Kaur Harvinder"^^ . . "Open University Malaysia"^^ . . . "International Christian University, Japan"^^ . . . . . "The 26th Annual Conference of Asian Association of Open Universities (AAOU2012)"^^ . . . . . "Chiba, Japan"^^ . . . . . . "Does Mobile Learning Foster Self-Directed Learning? (Text)"^^ . . . "library-document-884.pdf"^^ . . . "Does Mobile Learning Foster Self-Directed Learning? (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "indexcodes.txt"^^ . . . "Does Mobile Learning Foster Self-Directed Learning? (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "lightbox.jpg"^^ . . . "Does Mobile Learning Foster Self-Directed Learning? (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "preview.jpg"^^ . . . "Does Mobile Learning Foster Self-Directed Learning? (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "medium.jpg"^^ . . . "Does Mobile Learning Foster Self-Directed Learning? (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "small.jpg"^^ . . "HTML Summary of #884 \n\nDoes Mobile Learning Foster Self-Directed Learning?\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "LC5800 Distance education"@en . .