Dr. Gary Ackerman here. I’m a retired #science #math #computerscience #teacher and #technology coordinator. Now serving as the director of the teaching and learning innovation center at a #communitycollege in northeast USA.
My interests include online teaching and learning, educational technology, sound pedagogy, andragogy and heutagogy.
@garyackerman howdy! Interested to hear your thoughts on heutagogy. Big overlap between autodidacts and those who do well in online learning, I suspect.
@helgztech So, I became interested in heutagogy around the turn of the century--of course we were not using the term--when I was working with and organization that was promoting several active learning models. One of them was "personal performance projects" in which students in k-12 defined an independent project and completed it.
Schools around me (in Vermont) have kept the model, but imposed som many hoops that the self-direction is largely gone.
On my blog, I have three posts that explicitly address self-directed learning:
The Three Agogos (pedagogy, andragogy, and heutagogy)
https://hackscience.education/2019/09/06/the-three-agogos/
Heutagogy (largely draw from a school where we implemented a project)
https://hackscience.education/2022/03/13/heutagogy/
and Creating Things that Matter (a brief review of a book by that title):
https://hackscience.education/2020/06/12/creating-things-that-matter/
@garyackerman oh good stuff, thanks! Interesting to think about some of these alignments in our higher level subjects.