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0000-0003-3279-8857
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University of Western Australia
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Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 17-11-2021
DOI: 10.1177/10283153211054144
Abstract: International scholarships are an established mode of aid distribution for many donor countries and a life-changing educational opportunity for recipients from the global South. This article draws upon ethnographic field research centred on Dili, Timor-Leste, focussing on case studies of a scholarship applicant, a scholar, and an alumnus. It employs the concept of Southern agency, investigating in idual practices shaped by influences that both constrain and enable action, namely local infrastructure, family and kinship groups, literacies, and the colonial legacy. Scholarship places are limited and extremely competitive, while assigning a moral imperative for alumni to learn and return to contribute to local development, often resulting in the re-production of socially normed roles echoing the colonial era. The global upheaval in higher education resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic emphasises the need for alternative interventions in the global South, including greater investment in local higher education institutions, and online learning.
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
Date: 27-11-2018
DOI: 10.19173/IRRODL.V19I5.3742
Abstract: This paper examines the problems and potential of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and Open Education Resources (OER) in the global South. Employing a systematic review of the research into the use of open online learning technologies in Southern contexts, we identify five interrelated themes emerging from the literature: 1) access to the Internet 2) participant literacies 3) online pedagogies 4) the context of content and 5) the flow of knowledge between North and South. The significance of Southern voice and participation is addressed in the final section, which concludes that on balance, the literature offers a qualified endorsement of the potential and actualities of MOOCs and OER in the global South. The ongoing tendency for the research literature to pay little heed to the agency of the social actors with the most to gain from these innovations is noted, opening up space for further research into the lived experience of online learners in the global South.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-02-2018
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Date: 07-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2019
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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