HEUTAGOGY – AN APPROPRIATE FRAMEWORK FOR COMPUTER AIDED LEARNING COURSE WITH POST-GRADUATE TEACHER STUDENTS
HEUTAGOGY – AN APPROPRIATE FRAMEWORK FOR COMPUTER AIDED LEARNING COURSE WITH POST-GRADUATE TEACHER STUDENTS

Summary/Abstract: This study is a practical action research. Its purpose is to explore the practicality and applicability of heutagogy for post-graduate students who are preparing to become teachers. The necessity to use a heutagogical framework derives from the fact that students are very different as specialization and level of abilities in using computer and mobile devices. At the same time, they are mature learners, with a bachelor’s degree in diverse fields. The pedagogical research comprises three principal stages: the preliminary stage, to determine the degree of diversity in the students’ group; the pedagogical intervention, and the research evaluation. Computer aided learning is a course whose main outcome is to enable future teachers to use computer and mobile devices in the classroom. Technology has now a spectacular evolution and, to be able to manipulate it in the future, the teachers have to become lifelong learners. Heutagogy can empower them with capabilities like self-efficacy, communication and teamwork skills, creativity, positive values and self-determined learning. The results of the research confirm that the heutagogy is an appropriate framework for the teachers’ education in academic post-graduate studies.

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