Blended Learning and the Global South
Virtual Exchanges in Higher Education
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abstract
This volume collects a series of theoretical and practical interventions in the area of blended learning globally. It aims to present pedagogues working in higher education contexts in the developing world with models of successful blended learning initiatives designed and implemented by committed educators working with student bodies characterised by unequal access to technology and connectivity. The twelve individual chapters of this volume are an invaluable practical resource for educators but when taken as a whole the collection provides a counter to commonplace beliefs about blended learning originating within the institutions of wealthy countries. It offers theoretical, material and socially grounded currents for thinking about the place of blended learning in the Global South and is a work of resistance to pedagogical epistemologies with ‘first world’ and neoliberal biases.
Digital • Deep reading • Digital stories • Email • French foreign language • Gender equality • Online learning • Second language acquisition • Intercultural citizenship • Translation • Students • Pre-service teachers • Italian • Peer-centred cycle • Telecollaboration • Oppressed • Foreign language teaching • Formative assessment • Computer assisted instruction • Reading postures • Italian as a second language • Reflective teaching • Global citizenship • Distance learning • English literature • Blended learning • E-learning • Gamification • Text-writing • Online • Pedagogy • eTandem • Instructional design • Active citizenship • Learning management systems • Computer assisted language learning • Digital educational Technology • Educational change • Literary analysis • Digital portfolios • Flipped classroom • Intercultural encounters • Student-centred learning • Peerinstruction • Teaching • Institutional culture • Language learning • Game-based learning • Just-in-time teaching • Higher education • E-portfolios • Intercultural competence • Video game-based learning • Reciprocal peer learning • Humanities • Virtual exchange • Virtual learning environments