Possibilities of virtual exchange for Internationalisation at Home: Insights from the Global South The paper discusses the potential of virtual exchange (VE) to promote the development of Internationalisation at Home (IaH) approaches. The researchers undertook the project during the pandemic. The two universities involved are in the Global South: Brazil Read More …
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NEW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS LAUNCHED
Would you like to get more involved in the world of Virtual Exchange? If so, we have some brand new exciting Special Interest Groups you might like to join. Read on if you’d like to know more about our SIGs and what they offer. WHAT IS A SIG? UNICollaboration’s special Read More …
SIGN up to UNICollaboration’s Free upcoming webinar series on coloniality in Virtual Exchange
This upcoming series will focus on ‘Identifying and interrogating Coloniality in Virtual Exchange’ The first event is free for members and non-members. Registration is compulsory. The link may not be shared. Event 2 and 3 are for members only. If you are not a member, please join us by completing Read More …
How Virtual Exchange exceeded all expectations
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 …
A virtual exchange for thousands of students around the globe
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 …
An interdisciplinary approach to Virtual Exchange
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 is moving beyond academia
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 …
The concept of the ‘Third Space’ in Virtual Exchange
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 …
New Partnership announced with COIL CONNECT
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 …
More than 10 Virtual Exchange projects and still going strong
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 …