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

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