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IND101

Module 2 Discussion

Self-Regulated Learning

The baby is crying. Your older daughter is complaining that her stomach hurts. Dirty dishes from breakfast are piled up in the sink. Your phone rings and it’s your spouse who has to work late unexpectedly. And amidst the chaos, you remember that you have a paper due tomorrow.

Take a deep breath…

As an adult student, you have likely already developed coping skills to help you get through even the toughest of circumstances. The theories of self-regulated learning help you to apply these strategies to an academic learning environment, whether it’s scheduling to block out chunks of time, minimizing distractions, relying on support networks, using practice tests and note taking strategies, or something else. Your ability to self-regulate is not fixed – you can hone the underlying principles of metacognition and motivation, use resources to improve, leverage your areas of strength, and develop learning strategies to help you succeed.

Discussion Instructions

Make sure you have completed page 2.10 of the webtext before beginning this discussion. This section will walk you through the steps of the DAACS activities listed below.

Initial post: At the start of the week, by Thursday evening of Module 2, complete the following steps for this discussion

•             Take the DAACS Self-Regulated Learning Assessment (Links to an external site.). (If you have already completed it before taking this course, that’s ok! You can either choose to retake it to see how you’ve changed or used your prior results for this activity).

•             Review your Results in the areas of Motivation, Metacognition, and Strategies. 

•             Then, complete the DAACS Writing Assessment (Links to an external site.), in which you will write 350 words reflecting on your Self-Regulated Learning results.

•             Once you have finished your essay and submitted it through the DAACS site, copy/paste the full text of your Writing Assessment essay into this discussion board as your initial post. (If you completed the Writing Assessment in a previous session, go to the feedback area and click on “Summary” in the “Content” section – this will display the whole text of your essay which you can copy/paste into the discussion board.) 

You will not be able to see posts written by your classmates until you create your initial post.