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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.

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

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

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