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 …
UNICollaboration and COIL Connect are excited to announce their upcoming partnership which will run through 2024. This partnership is designed to promote and connect organisations supporting virtual exchange. We will announce events and webinars in due course and hope our to involve our members and supporters. See below if you 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 …
CALLING ALL VIRTUAL EXCHANGE ENTHUSIASTS! UNICOLLABORATION INVITES YOU TO A WINTER PARTNERING FAIR When: December 13th @ 14.30-16h CET Where: On Zoom Who: For teaching staff and virtual exchange coordinators interested in finding a partner for a virtual exchange project How: Register your interest using the link below and we Read More …
Dear Members of UNICollaboration and fellow Virtual Exchange colleagues: The autumn term of a new academic year is underway or about to get underway for many of us and now seemed the ideal time for a letter to all with updates on what has been happening these past several months Read More …