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Post-COVID, Learning Redefined: Self-Directed Learning in Higher Education

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The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically increased worldwide education technology levels in terms of delivering knowledge. Since March 2020, both students and teachers have adopted digital transformation and therefore created a new workforce that is more digitally literate and tech savvy. This chapter contributes to the need for technical and digital skills to survive in the post-COVID era as blended learning will become the new normal. The study seeks to examine how and to what extent online teaching and learning fostered self-directed learning (SDL) skills in Hong Kong teaching-focused higher education institutions, especially the digital transformation of hybrid and remote learning, in upcoming uncertain global pandemic situations in post-COVID times.

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  1. The University of Hong Kong SPACE Po Leung Kuk Stanley Ho Community College, Hong Kong, China

    Beatrice Y. Y. Dang

  2. The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Hei-hang Hayes Tang

  3. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Joanna W. Y. Yeung

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  2. College of Education, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA

    Xi Lin

  3. School of Education and Urban Studies, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Krishna Bista

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Dang, B.Y.Y., Tang, Hh.H., Yeung, J.W.Y. (2023). Post-COVID, Learning Redefined: Self-Directed Learning in Higher Education. In: Chan, R.Y., Lin, X., Bista, K. (eds) Rethinking Hybrid and Remote Work in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36632-1_9

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