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An interdisciplinary approach to Virtual Exchange

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

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Virtual Exchange is moving beyond academia

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

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The concept of the ‘Third Space’ in Virtual Exchange

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

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More than 10 Virtual Exchange projects and still going strong

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

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A ‘Shared Garden’ Virtual Exchange project

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

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Implementing Virtual Exchange in a non-formal education context

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,

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Virtual Exchange at the University of Bordeaux

Dr Alexandra Reynolds is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics from the University of Bordeaux. She teaches English and Linguistics and does research in the same field. She is head of Internationalisation at Home Virtual Exchange initiatives for the faculty of Science. She talks to UNICollaboration about the status of Virtual

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A passionate Ambassador for Virtual Exchange

Hiba Ibrahim is the first recipient of UNICollaboration’s brand new ‘Excellence in service’ badge. She’s a 5th year PhD candidate in Applied Linguistics at York University in Canada and is very much hoping to finish her dissertation this year. She’s of Palestinian/Jordanian descent, and dreams to continue her research in

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