Teaching geography and blended learning: interdisciplinary and new learning possibilities

Lorenzo D'Agostino; Daniela Santus; Lorenzo D'Agostino; Daniela Santus

doi:10.3934/geosci.2022016

AIMS Geosciences

2022, Volume 8, Issue 2: 266-276. doi: 10.3934/geosci.2022016

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Teaching geography and blended learning: interdisciplinary and new learning possibilities

Lorenzo D'Agostino ^{1
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Daniela Santus ²

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Department of Romance Studies, UNC at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Modern Cultures, Università degli Studi di Torino, Turin, Italy

Received: 27 January 2022 Revised: 21 March 2022 Accepted: 31 March 2022 Published: 19 April 2022

The pandemic due to Covid-19 ushered Italian universities into the world of digital education, with geography being one of the disciplines that derived multiple benefits from a worldwide, technological transition. Our contribution focuses on the Turin experience of Cultural Geography teaching for the degree-courses of Languages and Cultures for Tourism (Undergraduate course) and of International Communication for Tourism (Master's degree-course). It highlights how the combined use of Moodle, WebEx, Google Earth, and Instagram stimulated an interest in a traditionally neglected subject, but also offers food for thought on the use of the same technologies in teaching Italian language, through geography, in US universities.
- e-learning,
- teaching,
- geography,
- social media,
- languages
Citation: Lorenzo D'Agostino, Daniela Santus. Teaching geography and blended learning: interdisciplinary and new learning possibilities[J]. AIMS Geosciences, 2022, 8(2): 266-276. doi: 10.3934/geosci.2022016

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Abstract

The pandemic due to Covid-19 ushered Italian universities into the world of digital education, with geography being one of the disciplines that derived multiple benefits from a worldwide, technological transition. Our contribution focuses on the Turin experience of Cultural Geography teaching for the degree-courses of Languages and Cultures for Tourism (Undergraduate course) and of International Communication for Tourism (Master's degree-course). It highlights how the combined use of Moodle, WebEx, Google Earth, and Instagram stimulated an interest in a traditionally neglected subject, but also offers food for thought on the use of the same technologies in teaching Italian language, through geography, in US universities.

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