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

Thema codes JNV • JNM • CJAD • 1QFG

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-529-2 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-529-2 | Dimensions 16x23cm | Published Sept. 6, 2021 | Language en