What is self-learning and how can you be self-educated IN 2021?

 What is self-learning and how can you be self-educated IN 2021?

What is self-learning and how can you be self-educated

With the rapid evolution of the world, the subsequent evolution in practical areas, as well as the deeper use of information technology, the need for learning, particularly self-learning, began to keep pace with the current global evolution.

Academic education is no longer sufficient as before, for example, the labor market and jobs are highly competitive as a result of open and accessible learning.

And even if you intend to do your own project, it's essential to start with self-learning to keep up with market size, competition and other important points.

The acquisition of knowledge is no longer as entertaining as it used to be, but is necessary to enrich your knowledge in your area of specialization, whatever it may be, as well as other areas associated with it.

In this article we will learn about the concept of self-learning or as some call it self-teaching, direct learning, or independent learning. And the most important features of it, and the challenges of it, and how you get through it, and we'll learn from important points and tips how to become self-taught, and the most important source of self-learning.

What's self - learning?

Self-learning (also known as self-learning or self-learning) is a modern term that has become popular with the advent of the Internet, with educational materials accessible to all.

Self-learning is a process in which an individual takes the lead in diagnosing his or her scientific needs, whether with or without the help of others, then sets learning goals and identifies the necessary human 

and material resources, then continuously plans and evaluates his or her results and advances step by step in self-learning and independent learning.

The difference between individual and self-learning is that individual learning is almost entirely supervised by a specialist, who selects subjects, teaching methods, etc., for example studying at a university and so on.

Self-learning depends more on your effort and choice of areas, as well as your own desires and inner convictions.

Self-Learning Features

Hence the most important features of self-learning. 

1. In schools, universities, and academic education in general you are given a equipped curriculum without making an effort to choose and seek subjects for study.

Self-learning helps you strengthen intellectual and research skills, where you choose, research, plan and follow-up, so you acquire many skills, such as self-control, time management, planning and, above all, discovering your passion.

2. Self-learning builds the self-reliance of a human being, who does self-learning, tries to identify himself and his abilities, choose appropriate areas of learning, then application and follow-up, and of course all of this activates cognitive curiosity.

3. The continuation of the self-learning process enhances the skills of thinking and criticism, as well as building will and success in general.

4. Self-learning promotes the development of creativity in problem solving both in your field of specialization and in your public life, and helps to develop oneself in many directions.

5. Self-learning has no limits or limitations, such as academic learning, in which you can study whatever field you want regardless of your scientific qualifications, and you can learn at the time you set it, as quickly as you do, the way you want it.

6. In self-learning, you're only responsible for the learning process, so there's no fake learning like in academic studies, so for example, you'll find many graduates of the Faculty of Commerce in Egypt who know nothing about trade even though they've been on paper for four years.

In self-learning, you are the first official to decide what has been learned, so there will be no fake learning, because you will only become educated when you really learn.

Challenges of self-learning

Self-learning also has attractive features, and it also has some challenges that you have to deal with seriously to achieve the best possible results from it.

Here are the most famous self-learning challenges:

1. Your mind is not programmed on self-learning.

Our minds have been programmed from a young age to be traditional learners, we have specific learning dates, and there's a teacher who teaches us directly, and our goal in the learning process is to get a degree from schools and universities that proves that we've learned.

Unfortunately, that makes our minds perfectly mismatched to the idea of self-learning.

Solution: The first step in the solution here is to go through the experiment and get yourself into the process of self-learning. Everything at first seems difficult, but with time and a strong reason to learn, your mind will adapt to the idea.

2. Your mind is not programmed for freedom.

Freedom is a double - edged weapon. Definition, characteristics and challenges of self-employment), freedom has the bad limit of giving room to recess, dispersion, and this is an obstacle to self-learning.

Freedom here will be an obstacle to you in two directions:

First direction: 

In the age of the Internet, the whole world is in your hands, and you can literally learn anything you want.

Second direction: 

Freedom of time and this we will discuss separately on the next point.

Solution: 

Try to think deeply about getting to the thing you really like, and you don't start learning anything unless there's a real reason to learn it.

3. Your psyche isn't customized to oversee time

Unfortunately, the concept of time, time management and respect are almost non-existent in our Arab societies. This makes it very difficult for many people to find self-learning.

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How to become self-taught

We would like to emphasize the value of continuity in self-learning. The more you keep following the points below properly, as we will mention, the sooner the result will be.

One healthy meal won't make you lose weight, and one fast meal won't make you look fat. So you have to build a self-learning mindset to be your lifestyle, and it's continuing habits that deliver real results.

Here are the most important methods to take advantage of self-learning:

1. Self-learning readiness assessment

Make a self - assessment of your life in general so you can find an incentive.

Think about your life in general and ask yourself:

What do you need from this world and what are your overall goals for life? And what's the general meaning of it?

What are your current skills and what skills do you have to learn to reach your overall goals?

What are your qualities and shortcomings to deal with?

What areas do you need to study based on your personality and the nature of your life?

How do you spend your day? And what are you wasting your hours on?

How many hours can you study on your day?

2. Be curious.

We don't mean curiosity between humans and the privacy of others, but we mean scientific curiosity, because the first step to learning anything is to be curious about it, or to be willing to understand it, or even to have a reason to learn for it, for example, to benefit people or to evolve in your field of work.

So what areas are you curious about?

If not a specific area, what areas should you learn at the moment, for example: Learn English.

Also ask yourself these questions:

Why do you need self - learning in your life?

For what reason is self - learning imperative to you and your own life?

What kind of self - learning benefit do you have?

3. Set smart targets

After you've known yourself so closely, and you've set your own public and private goals and the areas you need to start with, you need to set smart goals for the field you're going to self-learn.

Smart goals are goals:

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Very specific and clear.

It's measurable what's been done and what's left.

It's doable according to your life and your own day system.

Related to the field you want to learn.

Specific time to work and finish.

After setting your goals under the preceding conditions, make a detailed plan to reach your goals. Write down the steps you have to follow, whether daily, monthly or even annual.

Then identify specific clear tools to continuously measure your level of progress, and to speed up the learning process.

For example: Prepare a monthly exam for yourself or write a subject about what you've learned.

4. Identification and assessment of scientific sources

Here, you need to identify the sources from which you will learn, and you need to be very careful in choosing the right scientific sources (we will single out a special part in the article for the most important sources of self-learning).

You can verify that there are references to the sources you see, for example, and you can obtain sources with high academic or scientific reference, such as approved scientific journals, what's more, books that are a source or reference for science.

Also Google's scientific search engine, or even courses for real experts in the field, so with everyone's ability to disseminate information, you will of course find someone who claims the fake specialty or ability, so be careful in choosing your sources.

You can also look for opinions and assessments about a particular book or expert before you start following it and so on.

5. Start Now

After implementing and controlling the above steps, you don't wait until you start, you don't make it complicated on yourself, you set big targets or inappropriate plans.

But make it simple in the beginning and start with the available, and don't wait for the right conditions because the right conditions never come.

It also doesn't relate to your temper in not being able to start now, so that you don't fall prey to procrastination. Never even when you don't want to, by the time your mind gets back, it's gonna be less difficult to keep going.

So try and always resist yourself so you can practice your mind on a learner's mind. Now very simply carry out the said steps and start.

6. Practice what you learn

The best way to know is to use knowledge, so if you're going to practice self-learning, try to find ways to practice what you've learned.

For example, if you're learning a new language, you can look for one of the applications that connect you to the people of the language, and then make conversations with them, or even write so you can practice the language.

Also, if you learn electronic marketing, for example, you can work on a marketing plan yourself for one of the brands between you and yourself.

Or even imagining a brand of a particular goal and working on it, so you can volunteer in an area that's connected to what you want to learn, and you can explain what you've learned to others, it's making your information more consistent.

7. Other learners participated

Today it's easy for us to look for learners who are similar to an area of interest that we've learned all over the world, via Suhail Media and other Internet media in general.

You can benefit from communicating with other learners at more than one point:

You can exchange experiences.

Identifying new educational sources you probably didn't know about.

Exchange questions and explain concepts and topics in a simplified manner.

Engage in discussions and present different views.

Getting a new perspective on a particular subject might increase your experience in the field.

Finally, it feels like you're in a middle like you, and it gives you motivation as it creates a study environment for you.

8. I seek motivation and self-motivation.

There are two types of human stimulation, so-called external stimulation and internal stimulation.

External stimulus: When you are motivated to perform a particular act or conduct that is of apparent or tangible benefit to you, or to avoid conduct in order to avoid punishment or damage in kind before you.

In other words, you do something to get the corresponding sensory benefit, or you avoid something to avoid harm in front of you, for example, your commitment to the law to avoid punishment, or you go to work to get paid and so on.

Internal stimulation: It's something that you do with no tangible external benefit in front of you, and not also to avoid something annoying, but you just do it because it's personally rewarding, and doing the same behavior gives you a psychological reward.

For example, doing something or avoiding it for a big, non-blind purpose in front of you, like working for a long time to learn something in order to start in a completely different field of work, but you have a great passion for it.

External and internal stimulation are important to each individual's life, but what is always most important is the internal stimulation of a human being, because it continues to resist obstacles, fall, rise, and then progress in self-learning.

So always try to find your real interest and find what self - motivates you to continue against the obstacles of life.

9. Building a Growth Mindset

Treat yourself positively and don't make self-learning difficult or one of the sources frustrating, just keep doing the steps that we mentioned and don't give up.

It's very natural to fail or fall and then get up again. Everyone's going through it. Don't make it hard on yourself and try again and look for the glitch in your execution method.

Don't look at someone's ultimate success, but look at previous years of hard work for their success, and also never compare yourself to someone's progress, just focus on your mission and do your best without comparisons to others. Everyone has their own circumstances and abilities.

10. Set time for self-learning

Set a specific schedule of the hours you learn, when you start, what hours, and when you finish. And then, as we said, days, weeks and months will help you resist procrastination, as will your commitment and discipline.

Now that you've come to know the concept of self-learning, its features and its challenges, and you've learned the most important points and advice that will enable you to be self-educated, now come and get to know the most important sources of self-learning.

The main sources of self-learning

When we term self-learning, we have first-hand learning through the Internet, but in fact self-learning can be done through books, journals and scientific references as well.

But to be specific, and because everyone has access to anything online, we're going to talk here about self-learning specifically through the Internet.

Here's a general breakdown of the most important sources from which you can learn online:

Books available on the Internet.

Specialized educational articles available on trusted sites.

Educational videos are available on videos sites such as YouTube.

Corsets available at corsets (large sites with corsets in all disciplines).

Corsets available at leading sites in a particular area.

Corsets are available on the official sites of world universities.

Practical research published at specialized scientific sites.

Of course, all the sources up there you can count on for self-learning, but to make it easy, let's put together a list of specific sites through which you can start self-learning, which provides modern foundations in all disciplines.

Coursera

Udemy

FutureLearn

edX

To get the full list, you can go back to the Best Corsat On Site article, and to access free viruses you can go back to an article; How do you get to free cords in any specialty you want.

Now, my friend, we have finished our essay on self - learning, which we hope will be a useful article for every Arab who seeks to develop their lives. I wish you all the best.