ABSTRACT
This chapter examines strategies that can be used to support self-regulation during self-directed learning in the workplace. Self-directed learning can take many different forms. It can occur formally or informally, online, or through social interactions. Over the past few decades, considerable research attention has been focused on developing strategies that can support self-regulated learning and, in the process, increase the effectiveness of more autonomous or self-directed learning. Guiding strategies are designed to augment learners' self-regulation activity by providing information they need to make effective decisions about how to deploy their attention and allocate their effort. Interventions that fall into the cultivating strategies, aim to develop individuals' capacity to engage in self-regulated learning. In recent years, research has made significant strides in terms of not only identifying the challenges that employees face in autonomous learning environments but also developing various interventions to help them overcome these challenges.
