Re-Envisioning and Restructuring Blended Learning for Underprivileged Communities - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1799869415 ISBN 13: 9781799869412

Publisher: Business Science Reference, 2021

Synopsis

Challenges in the educational arena are not new phenomena. However, with the recent outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers and educators have been made even more aware of the need for a paradigm shift in education. Blended learning, as opposed to fully online learning or traditional face-to-face teaching, has been well-researched and has been found to have the potential to provide better educational solutions in challenging contexts. These contexts range from pandemic situations where social distancing is the order of the day to financial and time constraints regarding full-time study, as well as limited physical capacity at institutions. Blended learning solutions are often designed for resourceful institutions and cannot be easily implemented in developing countries and in communities where resources are limited. Typical issues like connectivity, accessibility, lack of suitable devices, and affordability need to be taken into consideration and in cognizance of blended learning interventions. These challenges are often neglected in blended learning research but are critical discussions to be had.

Re-Envisioning and Restructuring Blended Learning for Underprivileged Communities shares how institutions in the developing world and less privileged communities have re-imagined and restructured blended education to enhance teaching and learning for underprivileged communities. This book aims to address blended learning solutions across institutional, program, course, and activity levels. The chapters will cover a variety of learning environments, from rural settings to less developed countries and more, and explore the programs and courses designed to improve student success and accessibility in diverse student populations. This book is ideally intended for teachers, administrators, teacher educators, practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, academicians, and students who are interested in blended learning opportunities in less-privileged settings and to underserved and marginalized populations.

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About the Authors

Chantelle Bosch is a senior lecturer in Computer Science Education in the Faculty of Education at North-West University. She holds a PhD in Computer Science Education and a NRF Y- rating from the South African National Research Foundation. Chantelle is a sub area leader in the Research Unit Self-Directed Learning at the NWU. Her research interests include technology enhanced learning, self-directed learning, blended learning, and cooperative learning and is involved in various projects that explore technology-supported cooperative learning to promote self-directed learning. Chantelle has recently edited two books and she is also an executive member of the UNESCO Chair on Multimodal Learning and Open Educational Resources (OER).

Lydia Kyei-Blankson is a Full Professor who teaches graduate research methods courses. Also, she serves on many doctoral dissertation committees. To date, she has served on 56 dissertations. She is currently the Senior Research Fellow at NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising Center for Research at Kansas State University (KSU) and also serves on the editorial board of International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, Planning and Changing, and Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice. She is the recipient of the Manahan Family Teaching award, the University Research Initiative award, the University Teaching Initiative award, the EAF Spirit award, and the EAF Scholarship Productivity award.

Edition details

• Publisher: Business Science Reference
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1799869415
• ISBN 13: 9781799869412
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 330
• Editor: Bosch Chantelle, Laubscher Dorothy Joy, Kyei-Blankson Lydia