Digitally-Enhanced practices and open pedagogy in English-Taught Programs

Giovanna Carloni

Digitally-Enhanced practices and open pedagogy in English-Taught Programs

Flexible Learning for Local and Global Settings in Higher Education

Higher education, which is undergoing a shift due to an increase in digitalization worldwide, needs to refocus its teaching practices by designing flexible courses catering to students’ multifarious post-pandemic needs. The present volume provides a digitally-enhanced framework suitable for designing and implementing flexible courses in English-Taught Programs (ETPs). Language awareness, a key component of ETPs, is especially examined within a Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) framework.

Pages: 298

ISBN: 9788835112129

Edizione:1a edizione 2020

Publisher code: 11058.1

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Higher education, which is undergoing a shift due to an increase in digitalization worldwide, needs to refocus its teaching practices by designing flexible courses catering to students' multifarious post-pandemic needs. In this light, the present volume provides a digitally-enhanced framework suitable for designing and implementing flexible courses in English-Taught Programs (ETPs). Language awareness, a key component of ETPs, is especially examined within a Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) framework. In this respect, from an open pedagogy perspective, a technology-enhanced SFLinformed embedded disciplinary literacy framework is formulated, suitable for local and global online ETP learning environments. On the basis of the framework devised, some transformative digitally-enhanced language awareness practices are developed using text mining. Online course design is also investigated along with collaborative activities instrumental in fostering effective digitally-enhanced learning. Finally, the prototype of a HyFlex (Hybrid-Flexible) course module is developed, suited to implementing virtual mobility in ETPs.

Giovanna Carloni is a lecturer at the University of Urbino, Italy. Her fields of expertise are second language acquisition, foreign language didactics, teaching Italian as a second and foreign language, CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning), English linguistics, corpus linguistics, applied corpus linguistics, corpus-based translation studies, virtual exchanges, educational technology, design for learning, and teacher training.

Introduction
Flexible Learning in Higher Education
(Flexible digitally-enhanced learning in higher education; Blended learning; Digitally-enhanced learning and reflexive pedagogy; The Community of Inquiry framework; Blended learning in higher education: two case studies)
Open Education and Open Pedagogy
(Open Education; The effectiveness of OERs in higher education; Digital learning and OERs; Distant reading and text mining through Open Educational Practices)
English-Taught Programs and digitally-enhanced language awareness
(CLIL in higher education; Systemic Functional Linguistics and CLIL; The implementation of SFL in ETPs: a 3×3 framework)
HyFlex courses for ETPs: a prototype for local and global settings
(The internationalization of the curriculum; Course design; Flexible course design for ETPs and an Open Pedagogy framework)
Conclusion
References
Sitography.

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