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A design-based virtual exchange with global topics at its heart

Fabian Krengel, PhD candidate, began his virtual exchange journey at the University of Göttingen in the centre of Germany. He’s undertaking his design-based VE at Regensburg university in Bavaria focusing on using VE to train pre-service English Language teachers on how to perceive English as a global language to encourage

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Virtual Exchange reduces isolation during the pandemic

Netherlands-based Louisa Pruschen was a student during the pandemic, when she found participating in a virtual exchange helped her make the best of a tricky situation. “My Erasmus exchange was cancelled’, explains Louisa. “I was supposed to go to the United States but that didn’t happen. I decided to make

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A virtual exchange in English with non-native speakers

Kleiberth Romero Is an 18-year-old software programming student currently living in Colombia. He’s originally from Venezuela. Fiana Annisa Is an English major student from Indonesia. Although geographically divided, they have both been delighted with their recent experience of taking part in the International Virtual Exchange project initiated by Australia-based Eric

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A bilingual English-French Virtual Exchange

Anna Loftus is a third year student in the BA Arts English/French at the University of Limerick in Ireland. She undertook her bilingual virtual exchange in the first semester in her second year between her university and the Université Paris-Saclay. It began in September and ran for the whole semester,

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The Arqus Alliance virtual exchange programme

Julia Loepke is a German student doing a Masters’ in Organisational Psychology at the University of Bochum (Ruhr-Universität Bochum). She recently spent a semester abroad in Italy, and prior to this, undertook a virtual exchange in preparation. The Arqus Alliance Moves project is an initiative for students from all the

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Impact of the International Virtual Exchange Project

Esmanur Kara is a Turkish participant of Eric Hagley’s International Virtual Exchange Project. She’s a 24-year-old English language teacher graduate, currently undertaking a Masters’ in ELT. She wants to be an academic. Up to now, Esmanur has participated in seven iterations of this project and is very happy to be

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A “Simulation-based Virtual Exchange”, the power of role play

Spanish secondary education teacher Anais Ramos now works in an English Academy but earlier this year she participated in Laura Angelini’s Virtual Exchange entitled “Simulation in the Master of Education in Secondary Teaching” hosted on UNICollaboration’s Moodle platform. Anais says she didn’t really know what to expect, despite Laura’s explanation

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