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Toward Mindful, Self-regulated Learning: Creation of a Learning Academy for Management Students

KEYWORDS: self-regulated learning, mindfulness, delay of gratification, metacognition

Today’s learning environment for Management students is filled with challenges, often including long work hours, demanding course loads, and frequent distractions from personal technology devices. Many students struggle to establish personal study skills and habits that will allow them to learn efficiently and resist temptations for immediate gratification. Two Management professors share their experience with this problem from their recognition of significant challenges of the student learning process today, through their exploration of literature from a variety of fields of study, and ultimately to the design, facilitation, and results of a five week, research-based Learning Academy for undergraduate Management students.

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