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Membership Benefits and Fees 2024
Dear UNICollaboration members, We would like to inform you about important updates related to your future membership renewals as of 2024. As of 2024, memberships will last a solar year, so they will all expire on the 31st of December of the year concerned and membership fees, with the sole exception of Student’s Read More …
IVEC ideas Workshop
New Academic research article on ‘VE and the Development of Transferable skills’
Abstract Videoconferencing is a popular mode of communication in virtual exchange (VE) settings. Recognising technological affordances of teletandem via videoconferencing, we developed a web-based system, L2 (second language) Learning system (L2L), for university language students’ teletandem reflections. L2L provides visualisations of conversation metrics, which students reflect on as a means Read More …
Winter Partnering Fair
CALLING ALL VIRTUAL EXCHANGE ENTHUSIASTS! UNICOLLABORATION INVITES YOU TO A WINTER PARTNERING FAIR When: December 13th @ 14.30-16h CET Where: On Zoom Who: For teaching staff and virtual exchange coordinators interested in finding a partner for a virtual exchange project How: Register your interest using the link below and we Read More …
VALIANT CONFERENCE, LÉON, FEB 2024
BACKGROUND TO THE CONFERENCE This conference brings together teachers, researchers and policy makers who are interested in how Virtual Exchange can be used in professional development programmes as well as Initial Teacher Education. Virtual Exchange refers to the different educational approaches to connecting people from different cultural backgrounds in online Read More …
President’s letter
Dear Members of UNICollaboration and fellow Virtual Exchange colleagues: The autumn term of a new academic year is underway or about to get underway for many of us and now seemed the ideal time for a letter to all with updates on what has been happening these past several months Read More …
Success in European Projects
Four major European funded projects that UNICollaboration has been involved with have now concluded with Final Reports accepted by the EACEA (The European Education and Culture Executive Agency) and the respective National Agencies. Two highly scoring projects including one classified as ‘excellent’. The two are – GODIJIP on Digitalising Joint Read More …
Calling emerging graduates and scholars: Find out more about UNICollaboration SIG and get involved
By Hiba B. Ibrahim About the Graduate Student SIG: The UNICollaboration Graduate Student Special Interest Group (SIG) on Virtual Exchange was established to give emerging scholars a platform upon which to share ideas and challenges within the larger UNICollaboration organisation. Similarly, this SIG will offer students opportunities for networking, sharing Read More …
HOT OFF THE PRESS
Congratulations to our longstanding UNICollaboration members, colleagues and Virtual Exchange enthusiasts, Drs Rut Muniz Calderon and Maria Laura Angelini Doffo from the Universidad Católica de Valencia, Spain “We are glad to share the release of our book and hope you find it interesting” Simulation for Participatory Education This graduate/advanced undergraduate Read More …