Enhancing self-directed learning skills through e-SOLMS for Malaysian learners

e-SOLMS (e-Student-Oriented Learning Management System) was developed to raise students’ awareness of their own roles in learning for skills needed to ‘learn how to learn’ or ‘self-directed learning’ as an important enabling skill before making the transition into tertiary education. e-SOLMS was planned, designed and developed to be deliverd via the Web and it contains lesson ideas which are stored in its repository of Reusable Learning Objects. This model incorporates Self-Directed Learning (SDL) as a personal attribute and a learning process and it also incorporate a third dimension ie. the learning context, to indicate the impact of environmental factors on SDL.