This book offers an important overview of technology-enhanced education in Southern Africa. This book will be of interest and value to scholars of digital education, multimodal learning and education within Southern Africa and beyond.

Chapter 1: Contextualising multimodal learning environments in Southern Africa.- Chapter 2: Cultivating locally transformative digital pedagogies: The need for formative-intervention research.- Chapter 3: That’s so hot right now: Generation Z’s technological use during the COVID-19 lockdown.- Chapter 4: Alternative Multimodal Composition Assessments in Academic Literacy Modules.- Chapter 5: Rethinking assessment and feedback in a digital age in crises: Who is assessed? By whom? For what purpose?.- Chapter 6: Developing a Connective Student Support Framework for a resource constrained ODL institution in Mauritius.- Chapter 7: Professionalising Socialisation for Pragmatic e-Curriculum to the Rescue of South African Universities.- Chapter 8: Studying with a Chatbot: Students’ Perceptions and Performance at the Institute of Adult Education in Tanzania.- Chapter 9: Teacher perspectives on blended learning in a changing educational landscape.- Chapter 10: A Systematic Review of Digital Storytelling as Educational Tool for Teaching and Learning in Southern Africa.- Chapter 11: Technology-enhanced Teacher Professional Development: The Experience of a Digital EdTech Start-up in Malawi.

“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

This book offers an important overview of technology-enhanced education in Southern Africa. With original research from Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe, this book provides in-depth scientific scholarship focused on the dynamic multimodal learning environments in the region. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world has largely had to adjust to remote 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.

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.

“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

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

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