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A ‘water’ virtual exchange between Armenia and Brazil

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

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Place-Based Education through Virtual Exchange

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

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An ambitious virtual exchange design programme 

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

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Virtual Exchange at the University of the Arctic  

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

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A climate virtual exchange from a mature student perspective

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

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A Virtual Exchange in Learning by Design

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

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Exploring different justice systems with Virtual Exchange

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

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Using virtual exchange to compare different judicial systems

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.

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