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
Last week we spoke to Jon Braddy at Florida Gulf Coast University about the virtual exchange on Queer Theory that he undertook with Norway and Brazil. This week, his VE partner in Norway, Kari Jegerstedt joins us to tell us more from the Norwegian perspective. Kari has been Head of
Professor Jon Braddy teaches Queer Theory at Florida Gulf Coast University, where he’s been for the past 22 years. He first began teaching the course in 2013 before taking a break and bringing it back as a virtual exchange in 2023. “It was a hot topic at the time,’ he
Dr Mirjam Hauck hails from the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the Open University in the UK. She is a founding member of UNICollaboration and has been a passionate and dedicated scholar in the field of VE for the past 25 years. For the last 4-5 years, her