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