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