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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.

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

Thema codes JNV • JNM • CJAD • 1QFG

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-529-2 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-529-2 | Dimensions 16x23cm | Published Sept. 6, 2021 | Language en

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