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Blended Learning and the Global South

Virtual Exchanges in Higher Education

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open access | peer reviewed

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

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