Sentence examples for self-directed projects from inspiring English sources

To spur creativity, Google management created the concept of "20 percent time," the portion of employees' schedules that they could commit to entirely self-directed projects.

The constructivist theory of learning is right; but the constructivist prescription for teaching, in terms of priority for self-directed projects, does not necessarily follow.

Google employees are allowed to spend 20percentt of their time on self-directed projects, and these employees used that time to pursue their passion for public transit, he said.

Will you learn new skills, either through classes, self-directed projects, or visiting other organizations?

Nancy argued that young people would do well to pursue Mr. Stephens's vision of mentor-guided "self-directed, project-based learning" in college.

Remember their mythical policy that employees can spend 20percentt of their time (an entire workday per week!) on a self-directed project — a policy that led to the invention of Gmail?

Indirect needs assessment involved examining responses to a previously conducted survey of provincial surgeons; interviewing three cancer surgeons from different regions of Ontario; and by analyzing an online portfolio of self-directed learning projects.

Second, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada WebDiary database was analyzed to identify the cancer-related self-directed learning projects most often undertaken by Ontario general surgeons using this online portfolio [ 18].

We find an intriguing parallel here with the findings of the physician learning and change study (Fox et al. 1989), Slotnick's (1999) research on physician learning, and research on adults' self-directed learning projects (Tough 1979), all of which describe a learning process that begins when an individual confronts a problem that he or she is motivated to do something about.

Might you undertake a self-directed learning project like this?

The degree programme consists of four interlocking taught courses specifically tailored to medical students, providing structured teaching over a 12 week period and building up to a detailed self-directed group project.