UNICollaboration is starting a new virtual exchange project in partnership with UNIMED. It’s called ‘Critical Virtual Exchange in Artificial Intelligence – CVEinAI HELP US SET UP A NEW WEBSITE FOR THE PROJECT If you are interested in responding to the call for a new website, please see here for the Read More …
Author: Lorenza Bacino
On Open Badges and Recognition of Virtual Exchange
Keen former virtual exchange practitioner, Teresa Mackinnon, lends invaluable support to UNICollaboration in terms of technical support and advice. Online she’s known as @Warwicklanguage as she’s a now-retired former Associate Professor at the University of Warwick and an Honorary Life Member of the Association for Learning Technology. Teresa is also Read More …
“Take your place in the Virtual Exchange and speak out”
Tiril Steiro Eide is a Norwegian student from the University of Bergen. She is undertaking a Bachelors in Gender Studies. Her tutor, Kari Jegerstedt, encouraged her to participate in the Virtual Exchange on Queer Theory with Jon Braddy’s Florida students and which we’ve been discussing during the past couple of Read More …
Queer Theory Virtual Exchange part 2
Last week we spoke to Jon Braddy at Florida Gulf Coast University about the virtual exchange on Queer Theory that he undertook with Norway and Brazil. This week, his VE partner in Norway, Kari Jegerstedt joins us to tell us more from the Norwegian perspective. Kari has been Head of Read More …
Virtual Exchange and Queer Theory
Professor Jon Braddy teaches Queer Theory at Florida Gulf Coast University, where he’s been for the past 22 years. He first began teaching the course in 2013 before taking a break and bringing it back as a virtual exchange in 2023. “It was a hot topic at the time,’ he Read More …
On Critical Virtual Exchange
Dr Mirjam Hauck hails from the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the Open University in the UK. She is a founding member of UNICollaboration and has been a passionate and dedicated scholar in the field of VE for the past 25 years. For the last 4-5 years, her Read More …
Institutionalising Virtual Exchange in Higher Education
Konstantinos Petridis is Associate professor and Vice Rector of Internationalisation at the Hellenic Mediterranean University. He is a physicist specialising in laser physics with a PhD from St Andrews University in Scotland. Dr Petridis researches continuous wave laser systems. In particular, how to engineer the physical and mechanical properties of Read More …
A virtual exchange for future teachers
Twenty-two-year-old Sophie Brazil is studying History and English at the University of Regensburg in Germany and wants to be a teacher of English when she finishes. Currently she is undertaking a virtual exchange with students from Israel and Turkey. They are all trainee teachers and the main goal of this Read More …
CALL FOR PROPOSALS!
Dear VE enthusiasts, colleagues and friends, We are happy to announce that the Call for Applications to host the next UNICollaboration Conference in 2026 remains open. This is thanks to the great interest in the joint VALIANT/UNICollaboration Conference held at the University of Leon, Spain in February of 2024. The Read More …
New VE modules and masterclasses launched!
More from behind the scenes at UC “Our training team has been beavering away behind the scenes working on some new offerings,’ explains UNICollaboration’s Managing Director, Sara Pittarello. “We met over the summer, here in Padua, where we reflected, analysed and discussed what we thought was missing in the field Read More …