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