Simone Hackett is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher at The Hague University of Applied Sciences (THUAS) She’s been a keen COIL/VE practitioner over many years, delivering, designing, and coordinating COIL. Furthermore, she has a lot of experience in conducting research on the topic. Especially testing the effectiveness of virtual exchange Read More …
Gabriel (Gabe) Flacks is a humanities educator and has been teaching at Champlain College for 19 years. He’s also been an enthusiastic virtual exchange practitioner for about 15 years, “before I even knew the lingo,” he laughs. His enthusiasm for VE ultimately led to him co-founding a piece of software Read More …
Jodie Birdman is part of Leuphanais scientific staff and an adjunct lecturer at Leuphana University in Lüneburg, Germany. In the first instance, she studied teaching and education to be an English teacher in the United States. She has recently completed her PhD in Education for Sustainable Development with a focus Read More …
Marta Fondo is from the Open University of Catalonia (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya – UOC). She recently defended her PhD thesis around the topic of anxiety in foreign language learning and communication. She used virtual exchanges for her research. This is something she says she has experienced herself both as Read More …
Stories from Poland Anna Turula teaches at the School of English at the University of Wroclaw in Poland and we are welcoming her back for her second interview for our Blog! She previously worked at the Pedagogical University in Krakow. Despite changing institutions, Anna remains a committed virtual exchange enthusiast. Read More …
Eveke de Louw and Jos Beelen are from The Hague University of Applied Sciences, THUAS. Eveke works at the Centre of Expertise, Global and Inclusive Learning, where she conducts research into internationalisation at home. More specifically – internationalisation according to academic disciplines. She also researches the role of educational developers. Read More …
Suzi Cavalari is a teacher of English as a foreign language at São Paulo State University (campus São José do Rio Preto), Brazil and Marco Cappellini is a professor of linguistics education at the University of Lyon 1 and ICAR laboratory in France. They’ve been effectively combining research from Read More …
Rawan Tahboub is a PhD student at the Friedrich Schiller university in Jena, Germany. She’s currently working on using virtual exchange as a mechanism for reconciliation, using the inter-Palestinian conflict as her case study. “The idea came from the potential of youth to actually take an active role in reconciliation Read More …
Harriet Nabushawo is a senior lecturer at Makerere University in Uganda. She works in the Department of Open and Distance Learning as well as acting as institutional coordinator for the CVEinAI project. VE from a Ugandan perspective “We are truly enthusiastic about this project, as it brings together a diverse Read More …
Tony Liddicoat is a professor in applied linguistics at the University of Warwick working on issues around intercultural language teaching and learning for longer than he cares to remember. Tony will be a keynote speaker at the UNICollaboration conference next June in Limassol, Cyprus. He’s Australian born and bred and Read More …