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Effective use of SRL skills allows you to learn more efficiently and effectively in your lifelong study journey. Self-regulated learning is a self-directive process that enables effective learning through a learner’s strategic use of SRL skills. SRL skills are cognitive, behavioural, affective and/or meta-cognitive in nature. These SRL skills include setting and adjusting educational goals, monitoring goal timelines, formulating useful strategies (such as note taking, memorisation techniques and collaborating with peers)[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11].

Research has shown that SRL is strongly associated with academic performance and course completion across all educational settings [12, 13, 14], where poor SRL can lead to lower academic performance and higher course attrition. SRL is especially important at the university level where the study load becomes heavier and more academically difficult [3, 15], as well as for online …