Tony Liddicoat is a professor in applied linguistics at the University of Warwick working on issues around intercultural language teaching and learning for longer than he cares to remember. Tony will be a keynote speaker at the UNICollaboration conference next June in Limassol, Cyprus. He’s Australian born and bred and
Laia Canals is an Associate Professor and course coordinator at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. She works within the Centre for Modern Languages and at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. As such, she says it’s a great context from which to work on international exchanges. Laia began looking at
Dr Mildred Ayere is a lecturer in the School of Education within the Department of Educational Technology and Curriculum Studies at Maseno University in Kenya. She also doubles up as the director of the eCampus at the university. When asked why her institution was keen to become involved in the
Virtual Exchange Medium – a Centro Paula Souza publication Patricia Patrício is a journalist and professor of Endomarketing and Internal Communication at Fatec Ipiranga, Centro Paula Souza, São Paulo, Brazil. She has been working with our colleague Osvaldo Succi and the Virtual Exchange Team at Centro Paula Souza since 2020.
Anna Rodighiero gives a student perspective on virtual exchange in STEM Anna Rodighiero graduated from the University of Padua in 2023, in chemistry. She was a student of Laura Orian and experienced a virtual exchange with chemistry as a topic. Why did you choose to go on this virtual exchange
A success story from the University of Padova Laura Orian is Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Department of Chemical Sciences at the University of Padua. She teaches physical chemistry to undergraduate students of environmental science and technology. Moreover, she teaches computational chemistry, which is her research topic. But’,
Carrie Martins serves as the Co-ordinator of faculty development initiatives in the Office of Global Learning at the University of Florida in the US. She manages and supports virtual exchange/COIL initiatives at her institution, a role she’s held for the past three years. Success story using UNICollaboration’s Partnering Tool Carrie
Reinout Klamer wears several hats at the Hague University of Applied Sciences and one of the most important ones is as virtual collaboration coordinator. This role links well with his international background. VE/COIL at THUAS THUAS conducts extensive virtual exchange (VE) projects including about 60 initiatives reaching 2,100 students and
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
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