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.
Distance learning • Email • Reciprocal peer learning • Peer-centred cycle • Students • E-portfolios • Blended learning • French foreign language • Digital • Online • Video game-based learning • Teaching • eTandem • Deep reading • Active citizenship • Higher education • Instructional design • Just-in-time teaching • Peerinstruction • Formative assessment • Pre-service teachers • Italian as a second language • Digital stories • E-learning • Global citizenship • Pedagogy • Computer assisted instruction • Digital portfolios • Online learning • English literature • Language learning • Learning management systems • Translation • Virtual learning environments • Intercultural citizenship • Intercultural competence • Oppressed • Italian • Intercultural encounters • Gender equality • Student-centred learning • Institutional culture • Educational change • Second language acquisition • Reflective teaching • Telecollaboration • Gamification • Computer assisted language learning • Text-writing • Digital educational Technology • Game-based learning • Flipped classroom • Foreign language teaching • Humanities • Literary analysis • Reading postures • Virtual exchange