In conversation with Heather Sauyaq Jean Gordon Heather is an Iñupiaq Indigenous woman from Alaska. The Iñupiat are the Inuit people in Alaska and are related to Inuit in Canada and Greenland. She grew up in the city of Homer on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula far south of where the traditional Read More …
Anna Nicolaou teaches English at the Cyprus University of Technology. She is also a researcher in the areas of virtual exchange and enhanced language learning and holds a PhD in VE from Trinity College in Dublin. Anna has participated in a number of different projects around this topic over the Read More …
Brazilian student, Israel Nascimento de Oliveira is from the Centro Paula Souza, where Osvaldo Succi heads up the COIL/Virtual Exchange programme. This week, he gives us a student perspective on a virtual exchange he undertook on the topic of water. Israel is 21 years old and studies Mechanisation of Precision Read More …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …