Team Teaching with Overseas Partners in the Days of the “New Normal”: A Better Way to Introduce Innovation and Build Local Expertise

Abstract

The gap in the quality-of-service delivery in the education sector between the developed and developing countries of Southeast Asia continues to grow as the new accountability structures introduced globally are not straightforward, and scholars in Southeast Asia lack research capital to draw on and decades of experience to translate the new policies into practice. The use of technology also presents numerous challenges as CALL (Computer-Assisted Language-Learning) literature too frequently reduces technology to a communication platform or behaviouristic drills, with scholarly imagination being stifled by both our intellectual frameworks and experience. This paper reports on three research projects conducted in Southeast Asia, which sought to counter the abovementioned obstacles. The paper illustrates the context of these projects, how technology was used to support students' learning and includes suggestions for improvement.