Eclectic Technology

More and more we hear discussions about digital learning. This post explores three concepts that may be new to you.

Heutagogy is the study of "self-determined" learning. If you think of an online instructor "as a coach, a mentor or a facilitator," as someone whom encourages the learner to be self-directed you have the concept of heutagogy. In our classroom this could take place if we provide our students an opportunity to work on a project where they will have the lead and we will work as a coach.

Peeragogy or paragogy allows learners to leverage "their own expertise." This allows students to work together in small groups and with older students (and adults) it "increases the potential for transfer of learning and as well as encourages sustained engagement among students."

Cybergogy is a new concept for me. The post describes it as "the awareness that face-to-face learning strategies may not apply to distance education and virtual media."

These three "gogies" of online learning may also apply in a classroom where there may be projects where students are engaged in self-directed learning.

The post also provides link to additional resources that look at these three "gogies."

Jackie Gerstein continues to explore the shift from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 , taking it "one step further" by looking at Pedagogy (related to children's learning), Andragogy (related to adults learning) and Heutagogy (related to self-directed learning). The graphic above shows how she defines these three areas in more detail. 

She notes that this shift is moving us from a teacher directed classroom which education driven by essentialism or instructivism (Education 1.0) to a constructivist approach, "where the principles of active, experiential, authentic, relevant, socially-networked learning experiences are built into the class or course structure" (Education 2.0) to a more heutalogical approach (Education 3.0).

The discussion then looks at how to choose a teaching orientation (and it need not always be the same) and then applies these concepts to mobile learning. 

Many resources are included in this post such as a table describing Education 1.0, Education 2.0 and Education 3.0; a Google Drive Presentation on PBL in a High School Science Class that uses mobile technologies; a SlideShare that looks at Education 3.0 and the Pedagogy of Mobile Learning (presenting the concepts discussed in the post); and many links to additional resources.