{"id":11808,"date":"2024-03-04T13:40:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T12:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unicollaboration.org\/?p=11808"},"modified":"2024-04-16T09:34:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T07:34:09","slug":"virtual-exchange-is-moving-beyond-academia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unicollaboration.org\/index.php\/2024\/03\/04\/virtual-exchange-is-moving-beyond-academia\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Exchange is moving beyond academia"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"11808\" class=\"elementor elementor-11808\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-76f2500 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"76f2500\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-47d625c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"47d625c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-68d4676 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"68d4676\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"273\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/unicollaboration.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Anna_Turula-273x300.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-11809\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/unicollaboration.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Anna_Turula-273x300.png 273w, https:\/\/unicollaboration.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Anna_Turula-246x270.png 246w, https:\/\/unicollaboration.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Anna_Turula.png 635w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-19fdf9f e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"19fdf9f\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1764ac8 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1764ac8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Virtual Exchange enthusiast, <strong>Professor Anna Turula<\/strong> is a Polish teacher-trainer based in Krakow at the UKEN University. She is <strong>Chair of the Technology Enhanced Language Education Department<\/strong> (TELE).<\/p>\n<p>Anna has extensive experience of TEFL and has been training other teachers for the past few decades. She considers herself as a tele-collaborative teacher<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Her latest project sees her <strong>interviewing Polish teachers on their virtual exchange experiences<\/strong>. She shares some insights with UNICollaboration.<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5aa1ad95 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"5aa1ad95\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2af42be9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2af42be9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \/wp:image --><!-- wp:heading -->\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Some fascinating insights<\/h2>\n<!-- \/wp:heading --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>\u201cI\u2019m absolutely amazed by the diversity of these projects\u2019,<\/strong> she explains. \u201cI haven\u2019t yet had a chance to analyse the data yet, but I can already see certain <strong>patterns emerging<\/strong>. I\u2019m seeing how people started, who inspired them and who trained them. It\u2019s <strong>quite fascinating to see the scope<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Although so far, Anna has found about 20 teachers to speak to, which by her own admission, is a smallish group, she is still seeing groups emerging.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>\u201cSome are teacher trainers, like myself, and they appear to be using <strong>virtual exchange to supplement the syllabi of teacher training courses.<\/strong> Others are language teachers working in the language teaching centres of universities. They are <strong>incorporating CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) <\/strong>into their courses,<strong> which means some are teaching English to Business students or Pharmacy students<\/strong> for example. Depending on who they teach, they are incorporating the content too.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:heading -->\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The benefits of the CLIL approach<\/h2>\n<!-- \/wp:heading --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Anna can see a lot of potential in using the CLIL approach in the future. <em>In 2006, Marsh &amp; Coyle defined this approach as \u2018when a foreign language is used as a tool in the learning of a non-language subject in which both the language and the subject have a joint role\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>For this reason, <strong>virtual exchange collaborations can increase their scope and interest and incorporate content outside of just teacher training.<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>\u201cTeacher training rarely goes beyond the university walls,\u2019 explains Anna, \u2018and now, I am looking at <strong>exchanges that are actually <em>opening the doors<\/em> of the university and making them thin-walled, <\/strong>which I think is pretty amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>\u201cSome teachers are doing exchanges on different content, being content teachers, not English teachers. But their English is good enough for this kind of virtual exchange. I\u2019m seeing this happen at universities specialising in economics or technical universities, for example.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Basically, Anna is seeing a lot of themes, and values and approaches emerging, and this is very exciting for the future. All the teachers think they are doing something exceptional.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:heading -->\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Beyond the university walls<\/h2>\n<!-- \/wp:heading --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>\u201c<strong>Virtual exchange is going beyond the language theme<\/strong>,\u2019 says Anna, \u2018from 2018, a UNICollaboration conference in Krakow already reflected that these trends were emerging. During the conference, we heard about many other interesting initiatives in the world of VE, such as a <strong>number of business collaborations.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>On a personal level, Anna tries to <strong>find links between teacher training and civic education <\/strong>and several of her telecollaborations have included this element.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>\u201cIn one that I am particularly proud of, we asked the students to find problems in the world around them, often in the world of teacher training. Some of these issues were resolvable on a local level. Then, in their international teams, <strong>they devised solutions<\/strong>. We then encouraged them to try and implement these solutions after the tele-collaboration had ended. Some of them really went for it and this made me very proud as this is exactly what virtual exchange\/tele-collaboration is about. <strong>It\u2019s about bringing change even on a local level and virtual exchange provides the perfect context for this.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:heading -->\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bridging the divide<\/h2>\n<!-- \/wp:heading --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Anna hopes this idea of using virtual exchange to bridge the divide between academia and civil society continues to grow.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>\u201cIf it doesn\u2019t,\u2019 she says, \u2018we risk our universities becoming obsolete in the modern world. It would be a worthwhile research effort to understand the impact of VE in the society. The impact could be felt even years after the experience. Hopefully <strong>the experience will enable them to model how they view the world and move around in it and show responsibility towards the world<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Anna admits she\u2019s had her fair share of failures in virtual exchange, but this comes with the territory, and provides for so much learning.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>\u201cEven if you fail in your tele-collaboration, you can learn so much from the experience of doing the virtual exchange. 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