Higher education (HE) is considered to be the apex of all educational endeavours.
Therefore, it is expected that student in various institutions of higher learning should be self …

Thanks to the combination of face‑to‑face and online learning which involve the use of
Information and Communication Technology (ICT), blended learning has become a popular …

Introduction The study on self-regulated learning in blended learning (BL) environments
highlights its crucial relevance for both the academic development of students and the …

Students often feel isolated when they do blended learning courses and they do not always
have the necessary skills to work on their own. Blended learning courses need to be …

Within higher education institutions there is currently a movement towards blended learning.
Higher education institutions that were previously known for focussing on a face-to-face …

This book on blended learning environments to foster self-directed learning highlights the
focus on research conducted in several teaching and learning contexts where blended …

Self-directed learning (SDL) is an essential component for the success of distance learning
students. Technology serves as a suitable tool to enable cooperative learning (CL), a …

Independent learning in massive open online courses (MOOCs) requires considerable effort
from the learners themselves. Blended-learning has been recognised to foster independent …

Although self-directed learning (SDL) first emerged as a pedagogic model over forty years
ago, recently it has been all but mandated as a fundamental principle of higher education …

This contribution is about teaching strategies in blended learning environments and its
effects on students' selfdirection. Literature shows a correlation between teachers' teaching …