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Author: Lorenza Bacino

Place-Based Education through Virtual Exchange

26 June 202526 June 2025 Lorenza Bacino

This week, teacher educator and Virtual Exchange (VE) researcher Malin Reljanovic Glimäng (University of Malmö) in Sweden shares how place-based education can contribute to fostering critical thinking and ‘glocal’ awareness. This happens when students use their cities as classrooms . What is Place-Based Education? “Place-based education (PBE) is a powerful Read More …

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An ambitious virtual exchange design programme 

19 June 202519 June 2025 Lorenza Bacino

Samantha Blanco is  currently a junior at the University of Florida. She is studying interior design as a minor and landscape architecture. At the time of her virtual exchange in interior design, she was a sophomore (a second year student). Samantha studied under the guidance of Luis Mejia, who we Read More …

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Virtual Exchange at the University of the Arctic  

12 June 20256 June 2025 Lorenza Bacino

Izzy Crawford is Associate Dean at the Aberdeen Business School, Robert Gordon University. She is also Lead Partner for the COIL@UArctic thematic network, which is part of the University of the Arctic (UArctic). COIL/VE has really been taking off within the network! The University of the Arctic isn’t a university Read More …

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A climate virtual exchange from a mature student perspective

5 June 20253 June 2025 Lorenza Bacino

Deborah Mulas is a 36-year-old student who relocated a few years ago from Cagliari in Sardinia, to Ireland, where she attends the University of Limerick. This is where she had her first experience with virtual exchange. Deborah managed to get some of her qualifications from her cultural heritage course at Read More …

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A Virtual Exchange in Learning by Design

29 May 202529 May 2025 Lorenza Bacino

Natalie Manrique is a recent graduate from the University of Florida and took part in the virtual exchange guided by Luis Mejia and Edgar Martinez Muñoz with Cali Colombia to collaboratively design a restaurant interior. “I’m Colombian myself’, says Natalie, ‘so being originally from Cali meant it was a bit Read More …

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Exploring different justice systems with Virtual Exchange

22 May 202519 May 2025 Lorenza Bacino

Adrianna Ruiz is a recent graduate from the University of Florida. She undertook a dual degree in Criminology and Political science with a minor in Sociology. She managed to graduate in three years and was a student of Dr Erika Brooke for the virtual exchange with Ecuador. Adrianna explains the Read More …

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Using virtual exchange to compare different judicial systems

15 May 202514 May 2025 Lorenza Bacino
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Xavier Andrade Castillo, is Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure in the Law School at the San Francisco de Quito university, Ecuador  His partner in Virtual Exchange is Erika Brooke, Associate Instructional Professor in Criminology in the  Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law at the University of Florida. Read More …

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“Experiencing Virtual Exchange makes us better people”

8 May 20257 May 2025 Lorenza Bacino

Osvaldo Succi is the COIL / Virtual Exchange coordinator at the Higher Education Unit of the Centro Paula Souza in Sao Paustatelo, Brazil. He spent years as a professor of English and it was during this time that he had the realisation that his students needed more than they were Read More …

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A Virtual Exchange in Global Health Technology

1 May 20251 May 2025 Lorenza Bacino
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Ana Maria Porras is Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida in the US. She has undertaken two iterations of her virtual exchange module titled: Comparing Perspectives on Global Health Technology. She partnered with Daniel Suarez Venegas from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia. Ana Maria has every intention Read More …

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A virtual exchange in neuromuscular aspects of exercise

24 April 202524 April 2025 Lorenza Bacino

Diba Mani is an Instructional Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology and Kinesiology, in the College of Health and Human Performance at the University of Florida. She is a passionate advocate of virtual exchange in her courses. Kinesiology, she explains, is the scientific study of human movement, such as biomechanics, Read More …

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