Hybrid international comparative group work on digitalization in adult education and learning : an auto-ethnography on the journey of the moderators and participants

Jean Francois, Emmanuel (author), Rosemann, Therese (author), Saleem Panjwani, Rehana (author), Adewole, Funmilayo (author)

This study aimed to analyse the experiences of two moderators and two participants in an International Comparative Group Work on Digitalization in Adult Education and Learning, which was organised through a hybrid mode of delivery, to provide intercultural perspectives that can inform the understanding of instructional designers and adult educators, as well as other practitioners involved in the digitalization of adult education. Hybrid learning and intercultural learning theory informed the conceptual framework of this study. This is a qualitative research study, which used collaborative autoethnography as the methodology for the overall inquiry. The researchers used their autobiographical stories to analyse their lived experiences throughout their journey interacting in the international comparative group work. The results show that design features related to the planning and implementation of the hybrid international comparative group work on digitalization in adult education and learning enabled the moderators and the participants to experience intercultural learning.

• Language: English
• Keywords: comparative education, adult education, intercultural competence, internationalization, comparative education, distance learning, remote learning
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.01.2025
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: Str. 147-164
• Numbering: Letn. 31, [št.] 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-178399
• UDC: 374.7
• ISSN on article: 1318-5160
• COBISS.SI-ID: 236410627
• Publication date in RUL: 26.01.2026

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Andragoška spoznanja
• Shortened title: AS. Andrag. spozn.
• Publisher: Založba Univerze v Ljubljani
• ISSN: 1318-5160
• COBISS.SI-ID: 45586176

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: učenje odraslih, medkulturne kompetence, primerjalna andragogika, internacionalizacija, učenje na daljavo, primerjalna analiza