Abstract
Through interviewing several independent workers with different background and from different industries, researcher wants to know the whole self-directed learning process of independent workers, and how the internal factors and external factors, like personalities, job nature, positive and negative feedback, influence their motivation of self-directed learning. This research concludes that independent workers’ self-directed process can be formed as a four-step model. The four steps includes “stimulated by role models”, “develop motivation of self-directed learning”, “take action of self-directed learning” and “application”. When independent workers start self-directed learning, the motivation to help them complete the whole learning process is mainly developed from independent workers’ personalities. Moreover, another motivation which keeps self-directed learning process circulating is developed from independent job nature and the positive and negative feedback. Researcher hope people could understand more about independent workers and how they demonstrate themselves during the self-directed learning process through this research.