Presentation Overview

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Presentation Description

From cloud-based resources and wearable technologies to augmented and virtual reality and driverless vehicles, a steady stream of technological advances will continue to impact learning in unexpected ways. We will discuss the latest technology trends in higher education and how they will impact the online and traditional classrooms while exploring student-centered learning and heutagogical practices. The concept of heutagogy expands our current thinking of pedagogy and andragogy to look at self-determined learning. Emerging technologies support heutagogy by making learning more pervasive and ubiquitous, giving learners more opportunities to determine what, where, when and with whom learning takes place. Connecting information from a variety of fields and individuals is necessary to add depth and breadth to the self-determined learner's knowledge base. As educators, we can create the curiosity to find and explore connections between many sources while using emerging technologies that can lead learners to new knowledge and enhanced learning. As the need to justify technology expenditures grows, the presenters will share results of a case study of learning at scale at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and how multimedia learning was used to improve learning performance.

Learning Outcomes

Attendees will:

• understand the most recent trends and enjoy the exploration of new learning technologies
• explore the definitions, continuum, and characteristics of pedagogy, andragogy, and heutagogy
• participate in activities that will exemplify the characteristics of heutagogical approaches to learning
• discuss how the technologies being showcased can benefit the self-determined learner and accomplish specific desired learning outcomes
• create strategies to utilize heutagogy in new ways to strengthen and extend learning through the use of online tools and mobile devices.