Sake Jager is a project manager in teaching and learning innovation at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He has recently received an Award from UNICollaboration in recognition of services to Virtual Exchange throughout his career. Congratulations on your Award Sake! Where did it all begin? “It really began
Luis Mejia, originally from Colombia, is Assistant Professor at the University of Florida in the department of Interior Design. He is an industrial designer with a masters’ in product development and doctoral studies in human sciences – and more specifically in interior design. Luis teaches design studio and advanced communication
Paloma Rodriguez is the Director of the Office of Global Learning at the University of Florida, International Center. The office runs a plethora of internationalisation at home initiatives including virtual exchange. Sebastian Rodriguez – who points out that he and Paloma are not related despite sharing the same surname –
Marta Giralt is from the University of Limerick in Ireland, where she teaches in the School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics, including her native Spanish. She’s a keen virtual exchange practitioner with a long history of involvement with UNICollaboration training. Marta particularly enjoys teaching intercultural communication at Limerick. For
Carolin Fuchs As well as Co Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Virtual Exchange, Carolin Fuchs from Northeastern University in Boston, US, has a triple appointment at her institution. She runs the German programme and is also active in the English writing programme in the English department. On top of this,
Claudia Sperrfechter is lecturer and research associate of Computer Science and colleague of Professor Nicole Ondrusch, from Heilbronn University. Claudia’s specialty involves experimenting with innovative methods of teaching computer science to foster critical thinking. She does this by mainly using game-development based learning (GDBL) in virtual exchange, together with colleague,
Professor Nicole Ondrusch from the Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences in Germany. She talks about her Virtual Exchange with a group of journalism students from Venezuela. This collaboration – with her engineering software students at Heilbronn – resulted in the students adopting different roles to design and create games in
Keen former virtual exchange practitioner, Teresa Mackinnon, lends invaluable support to UNICollaboration in terms of technical support and advice. Online she’s known as @Warwicklanguage as she’s a now-retired former Associate Professor at the University of Warwick and an Honorary Life Member of the Association for Learning Technology. Teresa is also
Tiril Steiro Eide is a Norwegian student from the University of Bergen. She is undertaking a Bachelors in Gender Studies. Her tutor, Kari Jegerstedt, encouraged her to participate in the Virtual Exchange on Queer Theory with Jon Braddy’s Florida students and which we’ve been discussing during the past couple of