Teaching Literature at a Distance: Open, Online and Blended Learning [Paperback]

Featuring essays by an international array of literature scholars, this volume examines the challenges and opportunities of teaching literature at Open and Virtual Universities in a wide range of national, cultural and linguistic contexts. It presents cutting-edge explorations of seminal issues, including: literature pedagogy and curriculum building; canon and theory debates; the uses of hypertext and other digital tools for literary instruction; the writing and evaluation of educational material; and the teaching of digital literature. These issues are addressed from various critical and theoretical viewpoints, which reflect the contributors' long educational and administrative involvement with open and distance learning (ODL) in a rich diversity of cultural and academic frameworks.

As the first scholarly attempt to bring together questions of literature pedagogy and issues in open and distance, online and blended learning, this book is an essential resource for literature instructors and administrators in ODL, e-learning and b-learning programs. It offers techniques enabling scholars in more traditional academic settings to make literature courses more effective and stimulating by using tools developed for distance learning.

Takis Kayalis is Associate Professor of Modern Greek Literature at the University of Ioannina, Greece.

Anastasia Natsina is Associate Lecturer of Modern Greek Literature at The Hellenic Open University, Greece.

This volume recommends itself as a primer in blended or distance learning delivery of courses in literature... it will serve well those who are already most disposed to learn from teachers in open and distance learning. Open LearningIntroduction \ Part I: Open and Distance Learning: Curricula and Pedagogies \ 1. Tendencies and Stakes of Literary Studies in European Open and Distance Learning Universities Anastasia Natsina \ 2. Teaching First-year Students in Open and Distance Education: Aims and Methods Elll£