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Experiences in Self-Determined Learning Lisa Blaschke, Chris Kenyon & Stewart Hase (Eds.) Experiences in Self-determinded Learning Copyright © 2014 Lisa Marie Blaschke, Chris Kenyon and Stewart Hase All rights reserved. ISBN: 1502785307 ISBN-13: 978-1502785305 DEDICATION To all the children throughout the world who deserve the best education All proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to educating children in Africa through Buy1 Give1 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Thanks to all the contributors who freely gave of their time, effort and knowledge to enable this book Thanks to Amanda Nelson for the cover design A note on spelling: Contributors to this book come from several different countries and use different versions of the English language. The original spelling of a contributor’s work has been unchanged in order to retain the integrity of the work. CONTENTS Biographies ........................................................................ 6 Introduction ...................................................................... 10 The Basics ........................................................................ 14 1 An Introduction to Self-determined Learning (Heutagogy) ............................................................... 15 2 Heutagogy and Systems Thinking: A Perfect Marriage for Conducting Learning Experiences ....... 31 The Learners ..................................................................... 41 3 Embracing Opportunities for Self-directed Learning in Formal Learning Environments .............. 42 4 Moving Students Forward in the PAH Continuum: Maximizing the Power of the Social Web ................. 56 5 Assessment as an Ongoing Act of Learning: A Heutagogical Approach .......................................... 68 6 New Pathways to Knowledge and Learning .............. 76 7 Moving From Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0 .............................................. 84 The Teachers .................................................................... 97 8 Skills for the Learner and Learning Leader in the 21st Century ............................................................... 98 9 Heutagogy and Social Communities of Practice: Will Self-determinded Learning Re-write the Script for Educators? ......................................................... 108 10 Professional Performance Appraisals: From Ticking the Boxes to Heutagogy ............................. 115 11 Creating Learning Legacies Using Blogs ............... 122 12 Heutagogy and the Impact on Adult Learning in Higher Education ..................................................... 130 13 Cultivating Creative Approaches to Learning ......... 141 14 From Obstacle to Opportunity:................................ 159 15 One Way of Introducing Heutagogy ........................ 172 16 Applying Heutagogy in Online Learning: The SIDE Model ....................................................... 178 17 Engaging the Wider Community ............................. 186 BIOGRAPHIES BIOGRAPHIES Jon Andrews is currently the Executive Director of Teaching and Learning at St. Paul’s School, Brisbane, Australia. Jon has spent 18 years in education and has occupied roles as Head of Department, Lead Teacher – Professional Inquiry and Learning Innovation, Assistant Headteacher and Learning Coach. Email: [email protected]; website: www.thecentreonline.com.au; Twitter: @jca_1975 Eric Belt, [email protected], is a subject matter expert regarding online learning pedagogy. He received a Masters of Distance Education from the University of Maryland, University College in 2014, and he holds a B.S. in Business Administra- tion from Towson University 2009. Currently, Eric is a contractual instructional designer at Roane State Community College in Harriman, TN. Eric lives and works out of Baltimore, MD and is a heutagogy enthusiast. To find more information about Eric feel free to visit his website at www.ericsbelt.com. Lisa Marie Blaschke, [email protected], is program director of the Master of Distance Education and E-Learning (MDE) graduate program at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany, as well as an associate professor (adjunct faculty) within the program. She is an executive committee member of the European Distance Education and E-Learning Network (EDEN) and an EDEN Fellow. Her research interests are in the areas of lifelong and self-determined learning (heutagogy) and the pedagogical application of Web 2.0 technologies. Before rejoining academia in 2006, Lisa worked for an international software company, leading and implementing enterprise-wide knowledge management and training solutions. For more on Lisa, see: http://lisamarieblaschke.pbworks.com/ Melanie Booth is a co-founder of the Heutagogy Community of Practice (http://heutagogycop.wordpress.com/). She is a Vice President at the WASC Senior College and University Commission, where her work focuses on creating educational programming for faculty and staff of higher educational institutions within the western region. She holds a doctorate in Educational Leadership with emphases in higher education systems and adult learning and development, and she has expertise in prior learning assessment, faculty development, experiential learning, and community-based learning in higher education. She lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. Bernard Bull. [email protected], is Assistant Vice President of Academics and Associate Professor of Educational Design and Technology at Concordia University Wisconsin in Mequon, Wisconsin, USA. He holds a B.A. in education and history, an M.A. in humanities, an M.A. in curriculum and instruction, and an Ed.D. in instructional technology. His scholarship focuses upon the intersection of education and digital culture, self-directed learning in formal and informal settings, educational innovation, and educational entrepreneurship. 6 BIOGRAPHIES Thomas Cochrane is an Academic Advisor and Senior Lecturer in educational Technology at AUT University's Centre for Learning and Teaching. In 2011 he was awarded as an Ascilite Fellow http://www.ascilite.org.au/index.php?p=awards. His research interests include mobile learning, web 2.0, and communities of practice. His PHD thesis was titled: "Mobilizing Learning: Transforming pedagogy with mobile web 2.0". Thomas has managed and implemented over 40 mobile learning projects, with a recent focus upon Android and iOS smartphones and the iPad as catalysts to enable student-generated content and student-generated learning contexts, bridging formal and informal learning environments. He has over 100 peer reviewed publications. Jackie Gerstein’s byline is, “I don’t do teaching for a living. I live teaching as my doing, and technology has amplified my passion for doing so.” She has been teaching face-to-face and online for several decades. Currently, she teaches Master’s level online courses in Educational Technology for Boise State, Argosy, American Intercontinental, and Western’s Governors’ Universities. She is active in social networks believing that a responsibility of the 21st century educator is to share resources, insights, ideas, and strategies with other educators. She tweets at @jackiegerstein and blogs regularly at http://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/ Stewart Hase is a psychologist interested in how people adapt. He has spent most of his life working in this area in various ways including as a therapist, educator, academic, researcher and writer. A part of being able to adapt involves learning, hence his fascination with how to help people learn and then change. Now semi- retired Stewart spends his time writing, fishing, playing golf, staying agile and traveling, in between the odd consulting job. He is presently fully besotted with his new hobby, painting. [email protected]. http://stewarthase.blogspot.com. http://stewarthase.com.au. Denise Hexom has been a K-12 general and special education teacher, a principal, assistant superintendent and superintendent of schools in both Connecticut and California. She started the first special education for high school students in Queensland, Australia. She also has a corporation, Nascent Group, which helped teachers and principals turned around 37 underperforming schools and districts throughout California. She has been a professor in both education administration and special education and has presented her research throughout the world and has published numerous articles and a chapter in a book, Impact of No Child Left Behind on Special Education. Currently, she is Chair of the Department of Special Education, National University, La Jolla, California. Chris Kenyon is an adviser and consultant who has wandered the globe in an ongoing search for further learning, while at the same time assisting individuals and large organizations in their desired development. His career has included time in aviation, academia, film and television, publishing, executive development, and house design and building. He was the director of a postgraduate program in 2000, and with colleague Stewart Hase established heutagogy as a new approach to learning. For Chris, and his wife, life is about learning and enjoying new experiences. 7 BIOGRAPHIES Vickel Narayan is a learning and teaching consultant at the Centre for Learning and Teaching (CfLAT) at the Auckland University of Technology. Previously, Vickel was an Academic Advisor (eLearning) at Unitec Institute of Technology from 2009 to 2011. He has a keen interest in Web 2.0 technologies and its potential to engage
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