How Polish and US students came together to discuss issues of racism and disability in a Virtual Exchange Collaboration Dr Sabina Nowak is an adjunct assistant professor at the University of the National Education Commission in Krakow, Poland. She holds a Ph.D. in English (from the Jagiellonian University, Poland) and
Dr Claire O’Reilly teaches German at the University of Cork in Ireland. She’s been in the German Department since 2005 and teaches a range of subjects. They include: intercultural communication, German/Irish history and relations and of course, virtual exchange. She’s also involved in a bachelor of International Business and German
Eric Hagley is currently undertaking research in virtual exchange for a PhD at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia. He lived and worked for nearly 30 years in Japan, which is when he began developing projects internationally. He undertook his first undergraduate degree there at the age of 18. Eric writes
Dr Linda Beck is currently Associate Dean of Experiential and Global Education. She’s also a political scientist. Promoting Virtual Exchange is one of her responsibilities at the University of Maine, Farmington, USA. Linda and some of her colleagues undertook UNICollaboration training some years back. Over the years, they have formed
Virtual Exchange enthusiast, Professor Anna Turula is a Polish teacher-trainer based in Krakow at the UKEN University. She is Chair of the Technology Enhanced Language Education Department (TELE). Anna has extensive experience of TEFL and has been training other teachers for the past few decades. She considers herself as a
Marina Orsini-Jones is Professor in Global Higher Education Practice in the field of Applied Linguistics. She is currently working on a project entitled: Female Voices in the Third Space using virtual exchange pedagogy as a basis for researching Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in South-North Collaborative Online International Learning. The project
Katarzyna Radke is a Senior Lecturer of English in the Foreign Language Centre at Adam Mickiewicz, Poznan, Poland. She’s done more than 10 virtual exchange collaborations since 2018 and shows no signs of slowing down. “In 2020, the pandemic arrived and we had to change our plans very quickly, a
Thierry Villard, is a language teacher, from the Institute of Technology at the University of Bordeaux. He’s been collaborating on a virtual exchange project with the university of Léon in Spain for the past 6-7 years. Some background to the project: This collaboration is between the University of Bordeaux, France
Francesca Drago, from the Scuola Centrale di Formazione, a vocational training centre Francesca Drago is a virtual exchange enthusiast living in Catania, Sicily. She works at the Scuola Centrale di Formazione which is a vocational training centre. Students coming here focus on training in fields such as hospitality, graphics, wellness,