Teaching Literature at a Distance

Anastasia Natsina is Associate Lecturer of Modern Greek Literature at The Hellenic Open University, Greece. Takis Kayalis is Associate Professor of Modern Greek Literature at the University of Ioannina, Greece.

• Introduction; 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 Ellie Chambers; 3. Masters-level Study in Literature at The Open University: Pedagogic Challenges and Solutions W.R. Owens; 4. DecoIonizing the distance curriculum Dennis Walder; 5. The Need for a Community: A Case for World Literature in Open and Distance Learning Takis Kayalis; Part II: Pedagogical challenges in online and blended learning; 6. Delivering Literary Studies in the 21st Century: The Relevance of Online Pedagogies Kris L. Blair; 7. Digital Pedagogy: Taming the Palantiri Ian Lancashire; 8. Teaching Literature in a Virtual Campus: Uses of hypertext Laura Borras-Castanyer; 9. From Passive to Active Voices: Technology, Community, and Literary Studies Louis Marshall and Will Slocombe; 10. Using Technology to Overcome Cultural Restrictions: A case study of teaching English literature online to Arab students Ayesha Heble; Part Ill: Digital tools and Web applications; 11. Literature in Digital Culture: Pedagogical Possibilities Raine Koskimaa; 12. Teaching Poetry with New Media Rui Torres; 13. Metamedievalism, Videogaming, and Teaching Medieval Literature in the Digital Age Daniel T Kline; 14. From Virtuality to Actuality: Representations and Enactments of Critical Theory on the World Wide Web Anastasia Natsina and Takis Kayalis; 15. HyperCities: Building a Web 2.0 Learning Platform Todd Samuel Presner; 16. Affect and Narrative Encoding: The Problematics of Representing and Teaching Yanyuwa Narratives in Cyberspace John Bradley and Frances Devlin-Glass 1 Notes on contributors; Index.

'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 Learning