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

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