Dr Steven Pane is a pianist and conductor. For the past 30 years he has been teaching interdisciplinary study and music at Maine Farmington in the US. “We’re a small college, and it’s been quite a ride”, he says. He talks about his recent international virtual exchange collaboration with two Read More …
Ivonne Dekker is a senior lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Utrecht, the Netherlands. She’s been here for 12 years now and teaches Media and Communication courses with a special interest in Media Psychology, news framing, and media and culture, which she loves. She’s involved in graduate assignments, Read More …
Dr Abdoulaye Ndiaye is Assistant Professor in American studies at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Senegal, and Chair of the Senegalese American Studies Association. Professor Nicole Coffey Kellet is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Maine, Farmington in the US. She teaches courses on gender, medical anthropology, health, Read More …
How Polish and US students came together to discuss issues of racism and disability in a Virtual Exchange Collaboration Dr Sabina Nowak is an adjunct assistant professor at the University of the National Education Commission in Krakow, Poland. She holds a Ph.D. in English (from the Jagiellonian University, Poland) and Read More …
Dr Claire O’Reilly teaches German at the University of Cork in Ireland. She’s been in the German Department since 2005 and teaches a range of subjects. They include: intercultural communication, German/Irish history and relations and of course, virtual exchange. She’s also involved in a bachelor of International Business and German Read More …
Eric Hagley is currently undertaking research in virtual exchange for a PhD at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia. He lived and worked for nearly 30 years in Japan, which is when he began developing projects internationally. He undertook his first undergraduate degree there at the age of 18. Eric writes Read More …
Dr Linda Beck is currently Associate Dean of Experiential and Global Education. She’s also a political scientist. Promoting Virtual Exchange is one of her responsibilities at the University of Maine, Farmington, USA. Linda and some of her colleagues undertook UNICollaboration training some years back. Over the years, they have formed Read More …
Virtual Exchange enthusiast, Professor Anna Turula is a Polish teacher-trainer based in Krakow at the UKEN University. She is Chair of the Technology Enhanced Language Education Department (TELE). Anna has extensive experience of TEFL and has been training other teachers for the past few decades. She considers herself as a Read More …
Marina Orsini-Jones is Professor in Global Higher Education Practice in the field of Applied Linguistics. She is currently working on a project entitled: Female Voices in the Third Space using virtual exchange pedagogy as a basis for researching Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in South-North Collaborative Online International Learning. The project Read More …
Katarzyna Radke is a Senior Lecturer of English in the Foreign Language Centre at Adam Mickiewicz, Poznan, Poland. She’s done more than 10 virtual exchange collaborations since 2018 and shows no signs of slowing down. “In 2020, the pandemic arrived and we had to change our plans very quickly, a Read More …