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Practicing the Practice: The Heutagogy Community of Practice

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Founded in 2013, the Heutagogy Community of Practice aims to promote awareness of and to enact the learning principles that are its topical focus: heutagogy, or self-determined learning. Similar to Communities of Practice, heutagogy shares common theoretical underpinnings in the ideas of emergence, self-organizing systems, human agency, and constructivism. The Heutagogy Community of Practice was founded for the purpose of bringing together those interested in the theory and practice of heutagogy. The Heutagogy Community of Practice has since expanded to become a springboard for the development of international conferences, publications, and numerous formal and informal collaborations among its members. This chapter presents a description of the evolution of the Heutagogy Community of Practice, while demonstrating the ways in which the Community has maximized the benefits of social media tools (such as WordPress, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook) to connect its members and promote open knowledge-building and sharing.

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Booth, M., Blaschke, L.M., Hase, S. (2017). Practicing the Practice: The Heutagogy Community of Practice. In: McDonald, J., Cater-Steel, A. (eds) Implementing Communities of Practice in Higher Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2866-3_24

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