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German and Chinese Cultural Exchange

Looking for students from a Chinese university who are interested in getting to know more about company structure, business etiquette as well as cultural and social differences between Germany and China. This can be done as a language course, where students of both institutions will be learning the aforementioned topics, Read More …

Destination Studies

I will be teaching a new course this year within the Department of Tourism, and am looking for an exchange partner for one or both semesters. The course is called "Destination Studies" and in the first semester will focus primarily on Japan, and in the second, some other region of Read More …

Project Ibunka 2021

A cross-cultural web exchange project, Project Ibunka 2021, Call for Participation Hello, again! I’m Masahito Watanabe, Wata, at Yokohama National University, Japan. I’m going to organize a new web-based intercultural exchange project, Ibunka 2021, again this year. “Ibunka” means “different cultures” in Japanese. This is a web-based bulletin board discussion Read More …

Virtual exhibition of tangible cultural herritage

This Virtual Exchange focuses on introducing the tangible cultural heritage (physical artifacts produced, maintained, and transmitted intergenerationally in society) to students from other cultures with follow-up creation of a web-based virtual exhibition of tangible heritage. During our project, students will share and explore the specific objects that have a cultural Read More …

Encompassing All Voices

To gain more experience with COIL and virtual exchange we've set up a COIL project last year as a form of professional development with teaching staff from three institutions (Amsterdam, Brussels and Kenyatta). The central topic of this Virtual Exchange project was ‘Encompassing all Voices’ in which we question the Read More …

VE with Social VR for teacher educators

Dear colleagues, Please note that this is not a "normal" VE proposal and I'm not looking for a partner class for university students. I'm specifically looking for teacher educators, who would like to explore the affordances of Social VR as part of a Virtual Exchange for teacher educators. In my Read More …

Virtual Exchange for students of Tourism

I am looking for a partner class for a Virtual Exchange with my Spanish students of Tourism. The exchange would run from October to mid-December and would be based around tasks related to tourism and issues of global citizenship. My students are B2/C1 students of English. The exchange could be Read More …

Transnational Feminism

I'm looking for collaborating partners to develop a course on feminist movements/feminist theory in the two countries. The idea is that the students learn more about feminism in other national contexts and discuss the possibilities of transnational feminist alliances, solidarity and postcolonial feminisms. I'm also open to other collaboration ideas Read More …