Self-directed learning is a broad type of employee development. This type of learning is completed individually, by the employee, with little or no support from any external organizational structures or other people. Self-directed learning is self-powered, self-administered, and self-motivated learning. While it could take a multitude of forms, the most common types of self-directed learning are reading, listening to prerecorded information, watching videotaped information, and following printed or recorded instructions to complete a task. In other words, the learning may be visual, auditory, or kinesthetic and performed by readers, observers, listeners, or doers independently on their own time and at their own pace.