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King, Monty; Forsey, Martin; Pegrum, Mark – Learning, Media and Technology, 2019
This ethnography, based on fieldwork in Dili, Timor-Leste between 2015 and 2017, adopts an orthodox sociological theorising of agency to investigate the ways in which people in Dili negotiate the numerous interacting structural barriers to digital education. Having identified a lack of attention to learner agency in the literature on the promotion…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Mass Instruction, Open Educational Resources, Foreign Countries
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Anand, Pranit; Lui, Byron – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
There is widespread agreement that collaboration, teamwork and intercultural competence, among others, are essential 21st century skills. Higher education teaching and learning initiatives tend to have a significant focus on developing these skills through assessments and other in-class activities, and yet often do not take advantage of…
Descriptors: 21st Century Skills, International Cooperation, Intercultural Communication, Foreign Countries
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Cori Jakubiak; Peter Smagorinsky – Journal of English as an International Language, 2016
Volunteer tourism is defined as short-term, alternative travel that combines unskilled, voluntary service with holidaying, generally in the Global South. Approximately one-third of all volunteer tourism programs involve teaching the English language or other subjects. This study analyzes application essays submitted to a non-governmental…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Volunteers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning