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International Virtual Exchange Conference (IVEC) 2021 special issue: editorial 国际虚拟交流会议(IVEC) 2021特刊:社论

Journal of Virtual Exchange Pub Date : 2022-10-21 DOI: 10.21827/jve.5.39599

Alice Gruber, Mona Pearl

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Virtual exchange in Latin America: a profile of faculty and staff participants 拉丁美洲的虚拟交流:教职员工参与者简介

Journal of Virtual Exchange Pub Date : 2022-10-21 DOI: 10.21827/jve.5.38284

Carmen King Ramírez

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Unexpected affordances of virtual exchange as teacher education: learning about, with, and from students in a conflict country 作为教师教育的虚拟交换的意外支持:了解冲突国家的学生，与学生一起学习，并从学生那里学习

Journal of Virtual Exchange Pub Date : 2022-10-21 DOI: 10.21827/jve.5.38345

Sarah E. Dietrich

{"title":"Unexpected affordances of virtual exchange as teacher education: learning about, with, and from students in a conflict country","authors":"Sarah E. Dietrich","doi":"10.21827/jve.5.38345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21827/jve.5.38345","url":null,"abstract":"Virtual exchange projects with participants in countries in conflict can challenge future teachers to examine previous assumptions and prepare them to better meet the needs of others whose daily lives may be punctuated by violence. Through virtual exchange, participants are pushed out of their comfort zones through interactions with others whose geographic, sociocultural, and sociolinguistic backgrounds are different from their own. Through such projects, future teachers can gain both techno-semio-pedagogic knowledge and intercultural knowledge needed to take an asset-based approach toward cultural and linguistic difference. This article explores the perspectives of graduate students in TESOL who were paired with adult learners of English in Afghanistan for ten 90-minute synchronous online tutoring sessions. Data, in the form of written reflections submitted by the graduate students as a part of their coursework, offer evidence of shifts in participants’ descriptions of cultural difference, knowledge about Afghanistan, content knowledge, and teaching online. These data suggest that through virtual exchange with participants in conflict countries future teachers can gain invaluable professional experience needed to support students who live in places where they do not feel safe, students who have been forced to leave their homes, and students have witnessed or experienced violence themselves.","PeriodicalId":107205,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Virtual Exchange","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131856371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Connecting the disconnected: analysis of a virtual exchange during the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic 连接断开连接:对全球COVID-19大流行期间的虚拟交换的分析

Journal of Virtual Exchange Pub Date : 2022-09-09 DOI: 10.21827/jve.5.38374

Paul Sebastian, Benjamin Souza

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Facilitated COIL conversational model: a virtual exchange between a private university in the US and a teacher college in South Sudan 便利的COIL对话模式:美国一所私立大学与南苏丹一所师范学院之间的虚拟交流

Journal of Virtual Exchange Pub Date : 2022-08-10 DOI: 10.21827/jve.5.38668

Candace D. Bloomquist, C. J. Hobson, James Ayaga, Christopher Trott, Sandra Suiter, Austin D. Freeman

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Safe/brave spaces in virtual exchange on sustainability 可持续性虚拟交换中的安全/勇敢空间

Journal of Virtual Exchange Pub Date : 2022-07-22 DOI: 10.21827/jve.5.38369

Malin Reljanovic Glimäng

{"title":"Safe/brave spaces in virtual exchange on sustainability","authors":"Malin Reljanovic Glimäng","doi":"10.21827/jve.5.38369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21827/jve.5.38369","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the potential for fostering critical intercultural and global awareness through Transnational Virtual Exchange (TVE) focused on sustainability. The study is based on a lingua franca exchange between university students in Argentina, Poland, and Sweden. A qualitative content analysis of student e-portfolios unveiled reflective dimensions construed here as safe/brave spaces, echoing Andreotti’s (2006) notion of soft versus critical global citizenship education. Using theories of critical interculturality and third space, the analysis shows potential for developing participants’ critical reflection through TVE. However, the findings also reveal how in-depth reflection is often a lonely endeavor, overshadowed by project tasks that might unintentionally steer learners toward safe topics and consensus. So far, critical reflection is an underexplored area in empirical Virtual Exchange (VE) research. Student voices in this study bring to the fore questions regarding what it means to approach global citizenship education critically through online collaboration. The findings have implications for future design of VE projects where the focus is on social change through action-oriented tasks, but where critical and dialogic reflection after the completion of a pedagogical task is the salient part.","PeriodicalId":107205,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Virtual Exchange","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115671150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Exploring U.S. students’ takeaways from a cross-Pacific COIL project 探索美国学生从跨太平洋线圈项目的收获

Journal of Virtual Exchange Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI: 10.21827/jve.5.36443

Xuan Jiang

{"title":"Exploring U.S. students’ takeaways from a cross-Pacific COIL project","authors":"Xuan Jiang","doi":"10.21827/jve.5.36443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21827/jve.5.36443","url":null,"abstract":"English imperialism has helped form the dominance of one-way communication from Native English Speakers (NESs) to English learners, resembled in the existing literature of international education and exchange education (i.e. study abroad programs). Such unbalanced foci in the ongoing scholarship of exchange programs, including Virtual Exchange (VE), do not equally represent the whole participating parties of collaboration and furthermore overlook the learning needs and achievements from NESs. Noticing such a gap in the scholarship, the author intended to explore what NESs and native speakers of more than English have taken away from a Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) project between a university in China and a Hispanic-Serving Institution in the U.S. Twenty-one U.S. students in a writing-as-processes course were asynchronously collaborated with 20 students in a reading-writing course in China over ten weeks. The COIL data of this case study was from U.S. students’ reflections on the peer review giving and given and their COIL reflections. The qualitative findings revealed that Peer Feedback (PF) via COIL broadened participants’ insight about contrastive rhetoric, English as pluralistic, and cross-cultural communication. The COIL project also offered multi-dimensional enrichment and promoted 21st century skills in general. The participants expected some form of continuous VE projects, similar to the current COIL project, in the subsequent semesters. Those findings implied practical considerations of how to further develop COIL – synchronous or/and asynchronous modes, multi-layered collaborations, individual and collective communication, and a balance among students’ autonomy, technology support, and instructors’ affordability of additional arrangements for details. The significance of the study lies in the fact that the findings would help mitigate and balance scholarly attention to students’ takeaways from both participating parties.","PeriodicalId":107205,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Virtual Exchange","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133096154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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COILing diverse islands: a virtual exchange between the University of the Bahamas and the Borough of Manhattan Community College 缠绕不同的岛屿:巴哈马大学和曼哈顿社区学院之间的虚拟交流

Journal of Virtual Exchange Pub Date : 2022-02-25 DOI: 10.21827/jve.5.37388

Raymond Oenbring, Deniz Gokcora

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Virtual exchange: a promising high-impact practice for developing intercultural effectiveness across disciplines 虚拟交流:一种发展跨文化有效性的有前途的高影响力实践

Journal of Virtual Exchange Pub Date : 2022-01-25 DOI: 10.21827/jve.5.37329

N. Commander, Wolfgang F. Schloer, S. Cushing

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COVID-19 impacts on virtual exchange around the world COVID-19对全球虚拟货币的影响

Journal of Virtual Exchange Pub Date : 2021-12-20 DOI: 10.21827/jve.4.38198

Maha Bali, Paulo Goes, Eva Haug, Anita Patankar

{"title":"COVID-19 impacts on virtual exchange around the world","authors":"Maha Bali, Paulo Goes, Eva Haug, Anita Patankar","doi":"10.21827/jve.4.38198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21827/jve.4.38198","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic has simultaneously created both opportunities and challenges for the emerging field of virtual exchange: On one hand, institutional administrators and funding organisations saw virtual exchange as the solution to global learning needs while physical travel was restricted and traditional mobility programmes were suspended. On the other hand, instructors felt overwhelmed by transitioning all of their teaching online, and without physical access to their educational institutions, many students and instructors lacked reliable internet connections or safe places to engage in learning, not to mention the financial burdens of the pandemic.\u0000This moderated panel discussion which took place during the IVEC 2020 conference invited diverse perspectives to explore the impacts of the pandemic on virtual exchange in various contexts around the world. Central to the discussion were issues of equity, inclusion and justice: Is virtual exchange truly a more accessible and equitable form of global learning, as it is often promoted to be?\u0000In this video contribution, Eva Haug moderates the conversation between Maha Bali, Paulo Goes, and Anita Patankar around the following questions.\u0000* How is virtual exchange a solution to global learning during COVID-19?\u0000* What have been the two to three most relevant impacts of the pandemic on virtual exchange activity at your institution, in your country, or region of the world?\u0000* How can we as a field of practitioners maintain and sustain the current momentum and interest in VE in a post-COVID-19 world?\u0000* Can intercultural exchange be apolitical?\u0000* If an institution is in a position of power or privilege, how can they create space in virtual exchange for institutions that are less represented?\u0000\u0000The video recording is accessible on: https://vimeo.com/459415071 (CC BY-NC-NC)","PeriodicalId":107205,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Virtual Exchange","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115411158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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