TY  - JOUR
T1  - USING REFLECTIVE PRACTICES TO EXPLORE POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING READINESS IN MOBILE LEARNING PLATFORM AND TASK-CENTERED ACTIVITY
AU  - Thıagraj, Malini
AU  - Abdul Karım, Abdul Malek
AU  - Veloo, Arsaythamby
PY  - 2021
DA  - April
DO  - 10.17718/tojde.906853
JF  - Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education
JO  - TOJDE
PB  - Anadolu University
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 1302-6488
SP  - 192
EP  - 205
VL  - 22
IS  - 2
LA  - en
AB  - The purpose of this study is to explore postgraduate students’ self-directed learning (SDL) readiness usingMobile learning (M-learning) in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) as a platform and task-centredactivity. Reflective practice is used to measure students SDL readiness. This study is qualitative in nature. Theresearch employed thematic analysis method, which involved systematic coding processes, entailing coding,finding categories and themes. Hence, 34 postgraduate students from a public university were selected viaa purposive sampling method. They were initially introduced to M-learning course content in FutureLearn(MOOCs) platform, followed by reflective practices. Pre-reflective practices happened before students wereenlisted into the M-learning process, During-reflective process in FutureLearn platform and Post-reflectiveupon completion of the task-centered activity. The findings revealed that most of these students were not sureof their own readiness to take on SDL in the M-learning platform during the pre-reflective stage. However,most of them were able to monitor their own readiness at the During-reflective process. Subsequently,they made progress in adopting and self-evaluating their own performance by completing the task-centeredactivity successfully. Therefore, the contribution of this study is on constructing reflective practices basedon three different stages. Hence, the reflective approach practice has given students insight on their ownlearning capabilities and readiness for SDL in the mobile platform.
KW  - Self-directed Learning (SDL)
KW  - readiness
KW  - FutureLearn (MOOCs) platform
KW  - Reflective practice
KW  - Task centered activity
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.17718/tojde.906853
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/1674159
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