Irène Hill began her career as a lecturer in French studies. Over time, this has morphed into a lot of different programmes and currently, she is a lecturer in modern languages, with translation at Oxford Brookes University. Irène is also the programme lead for modern languages and a longstanding virtual
In conversation with Heather Sauyaq Jean Gordon Heather is an Iñupiaq Indigenous woman from Alaska. The Iñupiat are the Inuit people in Alaska and are related to Inuit in Canada and Greenland. She grew up in the city of Homer on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula far south of where the traditional
Anna Nicolaou teaches English at the Cyprus University of Technology. She is also a researcher in the areas of virtual exchange and enhanced language learning and holds a PhD in VE from Trinity College in Dublin. Anna has participated in a number of different projects around this topic over the
Brazilian student, Israel Nascimento de Oliveira is from the Centro Paula Souza, where Osvaldo Succi heads up the COIL/Virtual Exchange programme. This week, he gives us a student perspective on a virtual exchange he undertook on the topic of water. Israel is 21 years old and studies Mechanisation of Precision
This week, teacher educator and Virtual Exchange (VE) researcher Malin Reljanovic Glimäng (University of Malmö) in Sweden shares how place-based education can contribute to fostering critical thinking and ‘glocal’ awareness. This happens when students use their cities as classrooms . What is Place-Based Education? “Place-based education (PBE) is a powerful
Samantha Blanco is currently a junior at the University of Florida. She is studying interior design as a minor and landscape architecture. At the time of her virtual exchange in interior design, she was a sophomore (a second year student). Samantha studied under the guidance of Luis Mejia, who we
Izzy Crawford is Associate Dean at the Aberdeen Business School, Robert Gordon University. She is also Lead Partner for the COIL@UArctic thematic network, which is part of the University of the Arctic (UArctic). COIL/VE has really been taking off within the network! The University of the Arctic isn’t a university
Deborah Mulas is a 36-year-old student who relocated a few years ago from Cagliari in Sardinia, to Ireland, where she attends the University of Limerick. This is where she had her first experience with virtual exchange. Deborah managed to get some of her qualifications from her cultural heritage course at
Natalie Manrique is a recent graduate from the University of Florida and took part in the virtual exchange guided by Luis Mejia and Edgar Martinez Muñoz with Cali Colombia to collaboratively design a restaurant interior. “I’m Colombian myself’, says Natalie, ‘so being originally from Cali meant it was a bit