Technoheutagogy brings clarity to the teaching of the creative arts, thus leveling the playing field.    Watch this movie and you will see that the development of the theory of learning moves from teacher centred and led instruction through various types and styles of education.

Within the context of Rapid eLearning, the way students dip in and out of styles of learning is characterised as spiralling in a manner often referred to as toggling.  The capacity for students to move in and between the ranges of ‘agogys’ is disrupting teaching and learning.  A peaceful revolution is emerging in the world of learning and teaching theory.  This international phenomenon is powered by technology, the Internet and the noösphere and culminates in a capacity to engage in an environment capable of providing technoheutagogy.

The Art of Steering Student Learning Toward Self-direction

Techno- heut-agogy is the art of directing student learning through stages of self responsibility guiding learners towards technologically assisted, self-efficacious, self-paced, student designed, owned and motivated learning.

Pedagogy always was, and still is, teacher led.  Andragogy is teacher facilitated and directed but based on an understanding of how adults learn and what motivates them.  It is when teachers consciously choose to move towards syneragogy that we see true student inspired and motivated learning.  Through processes such as Proximal Development, groups work together to design projects and when there is a need for teaching they teach each other.  This kind of collaborative, project based teaching and learning reinforces the idea that all learning can be self directed and self paced if students take responsibility to learn how to learn.  The techniques are also informed by the idea that if you want to really master a subject, teaching it will force you to look into the subject fully and therefore develop deep learning of content, process and underlying theory.   Syneragogy leads to Heutagogy, which in turn prepares the student and the teacher to become learning partners in collaborative ventures called Technoheutagogy.

In lay man’s terms, Technoheutagogy is learning that has been transformed by the understanding that through engagement with technology and the Internet an easier and quicker (more rapid) pathway to learning is possible.  If a student learns how to learn, he or she can access any medium and therefore what ever realm of learning he or she requires at the time it is required. (Just In Time)