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Not an academic article, but a page to find several reflections on heutagogy. Everyone needs a community of practice!

Thanks Susan, I found these short and informal essays very helpful. I keep circling around this material feeling as if I cannot quite pinpoint why, even though I agree in essence with much that is said, I am resistant to the terminology and sense that this is a new revelation in educational theory rather than an articulation of what many educators have wanted to achieve for a long time.

Article summary: "This content is meant to do two things. It will, for the uninitiated, summarize the origins of heutagogy and the theories from which it was derived. At the same time we will have a look at more recent work and thinking from authors around the globe and see what they have discovered through using or thinking about heutagogical principles. The main theme is that people are naturally very efficient learners and that we can more effectively make use of this fact in our current education and training systems."

Includes a map of modules and 9 key changes made when using a heutagogical approach to prepare new teachers for the self-determined lifelong learning essential for the real 21st century world.

Downloaded the free 40 page book from this site. Logic + emotion = learning. Some really great tips about adult learners. Hints on visual design, "telling a story to engage the learner." allowing them to finish the story and lot of other jewels in these 40 pages. Great find!

Matthew Guterl writes in the Chronicle of Higher Education about the alternative of open curriculum. It is a nice opinion piece in our discussion of Heutagogy.

I really like this piece, David, thanks for sharing. The conclusion asks some pretty good questions: Parents need to think about the interior work of the curriculum and understand that what is learned in pursuit of a college degree is more than the sum of courses taken. And faculty members and administrators need to be asking themselves: What sort of student emerges from our curricula? A student who can follow a map, or a student who can make one? Because we sorely need more of the latter. And, as much as I love teaching at this place, they shouldn't all come from Brown.

Nurse Educ Pract. 2010 Nov;10(6):322-6. doi: 10.1016/j.nepr.2010.05.001. This article describes use of the heutagogical approach to nursing education - a practice based (and competency driven) program of study.