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Choose your own Adventure Self Directed Adult Learning and Assessment

Join us as we present the initial lessons learned generated from the new PhD in Management program upgrade. By enabling self-directed learning in a research and topic context, students are taking responsibility for their learning and experiencing deeper development of research skills. Blended learning, experiential learning, and learning-styles-model strategies have not been successful in students taking ownership of their learning and that is especially true for a PhD program. Online course design has become predictive and static. The courses become less desirable for adult learners as they have options to learn about topics in meaningful ways, such as bite size learning or searchable online video content. Online learning institutions need to explore opportunities for flexibility of content and student engagement in the online environment. In 2018, a Walden University PhD program began a program update to address the issue of student flexibility as well as ways of improving assessment utilizing both formative and summative measures of learning. Taking a self-directed learning approach to complex topics within the content courses of the program allows the students to explore the content in a personally meaningful way, allowing students to take control of their learning and find ways to improve their intrinsic learning capacity.