Overview
- Contextualizes multimodal learning environments in Southern Africa
- Provides scientific research focused on dynamic multimodal learning environments
- Valuable to scholars of multimodal learning and digital education
Part of the book series: Digital Education and Learning (DEAL)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
learning. Hence, the editors and contributors pull together important research on digital pedagogies and assessment to demonstrate how technology can be effectively employed for multimodal learning environments within the Southern African context. This book will be of interest and value to scholars of digital education, multimodal learning and education within Southern Africa and beyond.
Reviews
“This book explores the use and adaptation of digital technologies for multimodal learning and teaching, from chatbots to digital storytelling and beyond. Questions of curriculum, assessment, learning and pedagogy are explored, with attention to the modal preferences of learners, multimodal interactional practices and instructional environments, resources and technologies. Collectively the chapters highlight the relevance and significance of the dynamic digital sphere of multimodal learning environments, and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, within Southern Africa.”
— Carey Jewitt, Institute of Education (IOE), Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK
“The editors have put together a thoughtful collection of scholarly chapters focussing on multimodal learning environments and pedagogies. The book is most timely as so much of teaching and education post pandemic has strong multimodal dimensions, making this book highly relevant for any environment that is concerned with learning at all levels of society. This book lays out in-depth insights on the issues pertaining to multimodal learning. It offers the reader a number of innovative pedagogies that can be employed for successful multimodal learning in a variety of environments and not just schooling or higher education. The exciting element of this book is that it is written by scholars from the Southern African region, and the chapters offer valuable insights for anyone across the world who has a stake in the future of multimodal learning and education.”
— Ruksana Osman, UNESCO Chair in Teacher Education for Diversity and Development, Senior Deputy Vice Chancellor: Academic, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
“Going beyond ill-defined and persuasive flipped, blended or virtual idiosyncrasies, this book presents a cutting-edge approach to designing and implementing multimodal learning environments in a scholarly and design-based fashion. It explores different facets of multimodality in the Southern African context: appropriate theoretical pedagogy, the learner (characteristics, attitudes and expectations), targeted skills (composition and digital storytelling), assessment and feedback, learner support, the social divide, technology (chatbots), and the teacher (perspectives and professional development).”
— Jozef Colpaert, Editor CALL Journal, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jako Olivier is Professor in Multimodal Learning and current UNESCO Chair on Multimodal Learning and Open Educational Resources at the North-West University, South Africa. He holds a PhD in Education.
Avinash Oojorah is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Open and Distance learning Mauritius Institute of Education, Mauritius. He holds a PhD in Digitization of Curriculum and has been heading major educational technologies projects at national levels.
Waaiza Udhin is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Open and Distance learning Mauritius Institute of Education, Mauritius. She holds a PhD in Learning with Technology and also coordinates major national educational technologies projects.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Multimodal Learning Environments in Southern Africa
Book Subtitle: Embracing Digital Pedagogies
Editors: Jako Olivier, Avinash Oojorah, Waaiza Udhin
Series Title: Digital Education and Learning
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97656-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-97655-2Published: 24 September 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-97658-3Published: 25 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-97656-9Published: 23 September 2022
Series ISSN: 2753-0744
Series E-ISSN: 2753-0752
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 219
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Education, general, Curriculum Studies