SDL, SRL, or SGL - adult learners

I never thought too much about this, but it would appear that we are embarking on new ideas of study here.
Self directed, self regulated and self guided learning. are all basically taking steps to teach oneself.

I am taking this course specifically to further my chances in my profession, it is in fact the direction that I am looking to head.  I have been doing this job for a while, but as this course is through VCC, I have the option for direction but not as much with self regulation or guidance. I have to follow the assignments that are in the course outline. To this extent I do not have full self regulation. this makes some sense as it is an industry standard that is required for the credit. As well, I have some self guiding, but not necessarily all.

With respect to self direction learning also known as Autodidacticism, I have the choice to chose what I will study. After all it is how we first learn in the basics of the world, prior to having others teach us. It puts more emphasis on me the learner, but it is also more control. A good PDF on this is  Jeanne M VanBriesen, Professor Department of Civil and Environmental

Self regulated learning is similar, but now we are talking about the autonomy here. According to Winne and Hadwin (Winne, P.H. & Hadwin, A.F. The Weave of Motivation and Self-Regulated Learning.In Schunk, D.H., & Zimmerman, B.J. (2008), Motivation and Self-Regulated Learning: Theory, Research, and Application (pp. 297–314). New York, NY: Routledge) there are four stages in self regulation.)

1. task perception, (this is where you gather information about the learning and personalize it)
2. goal setting and planning, (as the phase suggest, we plan how we are going to go through the assignments or goals for the learning)
3. enacting, (This is the doing stage of what was set out in the previous step)
4. and adaptation (The last stage is for evaluating what has been done and maximize what is yet to be done)

With self guided learning, there is a little confusion about this being the same as self directed learning. But where I may guide where I may want to go, it is not consciously directed as in the first part. In fact on Wikipedia it does not even rate its own page. But again, I go back to Autodidacticism, which looked at in self directed learning. The actual definition of Autodidacticism is self learning in a subject where there is little or no formal education. However, we do have formal education in this area, and there could be substantial, so we will have to change our definition to self guided, because of the academic implications associated to it with formal education.