Studi e ricerche

Blended Learning and the Global South

Virtual Exchanges in Higher Education

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open access | peer reviewed
    edited by
  • Giovanna Carloni - Università degli Studi di Urbino «Carlo Bo», Italia - email
  • Christopher Fotheringham - University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa - email
  • Anita Virga - University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa - email
  • Brian Zuccala - University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa - email

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

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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