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

Thema codes JNV • JNM • CJAD • 1QFG

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-529-2 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-529-2 | Dimensioni 16x23cm | Pubblicato 06 Settembre 2021 | Lingua en