This document discusses heutagogy, standards-based open educational resources (OER), and the Learnival social learning environment. Heutagogy focuses on self-determined learning and learner autonomy. Completion rates for massive open online courses are typically low due to lack of motivation and perseverance from learners. Learnival is presented as a platform to help learners become more autonomous through learning how to read effectively, remember information, and perform well on assessments. It also allows sharing of standards-based OER content through features like Google Hangouts and by displaying ePUB format resources that can be accessed on mobile devices. The focus on heutagogical learning and use of standards helps enhance the open education movement.

1. Heutagogy and Standards-based
OER
Lim Kin Chew
SIM University
26 June 2014

2. Contents
• Why Heutagogy and Standards-based OER?
• Learnival – social learning environment
• Standards-based OER
• Conclusion
• Demonstration

3. Demands on the OER Learner
• Motivation
• Perseverance
“Completion rates are typically lower than 10%, with a steep
participation drop starting in the first week. In the
course Bioelectricity, Fall 2012 at Duke University, 12,725 students
enrolled, but only 7,761 ever watched a video, 3,658 attempted a
quiz, 345 attempted the final exam, and 313 passed, earning a
certificate”
Source: Massive open online course - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
(n.d.). Retrieved May 5, 2014, from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course

4. Heutagogy
• Concept coined by Stewart Hase and Chris
Kenyon
• Study of self-determined learning
• Expansion and reinterpretation of andragogy
• Heutagogy applied to emerging technologies in
distance education
• Learners need to be highly autonomous and self-
determined
• Interest in heutagogy due to the ubiquitous Web
2.0 – learner-centered design, learner-generated
content & learner self-directedness in
information discovery

5. Progression from pedagogy to andragogy then to heutagogy

6. Please rate how each statement describes you. 1 2 3 4 5
I enjoy new learning experiences
I am open to new ways of doing familiar things
I enjoy a challenge
I enjoy finding information about new topics on my own
Even when tasks are difficult I try to stick with them
I tend to be motivated to work by assessment deadlines
I take responsibility for my learning experiences
My time management is good
I am good at meeting deadlines
I plan my time for study effectively
I frequently find excuses for not getting down to work
I am happy working on my own
Survey on how autonomous students are as learners can be (Authors Ann Macaskill and
Elissa Taylor, http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-professor-blog/cultivating-
more-autonomous-motivated-learners/)
“1″ being “very like me” and “5″ being “not at all like me.”

7. Helping the students to learn better
How to read effectively
How to remember well
How to do well in
assessments

8. Learnival – Social Learning Environment

9. Using Google Hangouts in Learnival

10. Standards-based OER
• Availability of much digitized content based on
standards like SCORM, IMS C. C., ePUB, etc
• Can be remixed and reused
• Adds to the richness of Open Educational
Resources

11. Learnival used to display standards-based
contents

12. Mobile Learning using ePUB - 1
Book shelf of Aldiko reader

13. Mobile Learning using ePUB - 2
Creating an ePUB OER using Open Office

14. Mobile Learning using ePUB - 3
ePUB OER on Moon

15. Mobile Learning using ePUB - 4
ePUB OER on Linear Algebra

16. Conclusion
• Focus in the OER movement is greatly
enhanced when we are able to advise
students on how to be a self-determined
learner in a heutagogical learning
environment.
• OER practitioners can make use of the
Learnival as a platform to share, develop and
deliver standards-based OER.

17. End of Presentation
Thank you
Lim Kin Chew
kclim@unisim.edu.sg