Full Description
Virtual Exchange refers to the numerous initiatives and methodologies which engage learners in sustained online collaborative learning and interaction with partners from different cultural backgrounds as part of their study programs and under the guidance of teachers or trained facilitators. This book reports on a large-scale European project, VALIANT (Virtual Innovation and Support Networks for Teachers), which explored how Virtual Exchange can be applied to bring togethaer students of Initial Teacher Education with in-service teachers. The book also examines how participation in these Virtual Exchange initiatives impacted on aspects of teachers' and student teachers' professional development, their motivation levels, sense of professional isolation as well as on their intercultural, digital and other soft skills.
Contents
Robert O'Dowd / Margarita Vinagre : Introduction to the VALIANT study and this volume — Pia Sundqvist / Robert O'Dowd : The VALIANT model of Virtual Exchange — Euline Cutrim Schmid / Jekaterina Rogaten / Margarita Vinagre : The research methodology of the VALIANT study — Maria- Victoria Soulé / Savvi Antoniou / Maria Christoforou / Jekaterina Rogaten : Impact of Virtual Exchange on teachers' and student teachers' motivation levels — Gabriella von Lieres und Wilkau / Margarida Morgado / Melinda Dooly Owenby / Ute Massler / Xiaoting Yu / Carina Schönberg / Jekaterina Rogaten : Impact of Virtual Exchange on teachers' and student teachers' sense of isolation — Margarita Vinagre / Anna Nicolaou / Shannon Sauro / Pia Sundqvist / Jekaterina Rogaten : Impact of Virtual Exchange on teachers' and student teachers' digital collaboration skills — Begoña F. Gutiérrez / Jekaterina Rogaten : Impact of Virtual Exchange on teachers' and student teachers' intercultural competence — Kelly Arispe / Euline Cutrim Schmid / Katja Kugler / Meike Hähl & Jekaterina Rogaten : Impact of Virtual Exchange on teachers' and student teachers' professional development — Jekaterina Rogaten : Case studies: Virtual Exchange - How and why it works — Margarida Morgado / Laura Torres Zuniga / Jekaterina Rogaten : Case study 1: Virtual Exchange for teacher to teacher collaboration — Shannon Sauro / Anna Wärnsby / Jekaterina Rogaten : Case study 2: Virtual Exchange for teacher and student collaboration — Andreas Kullick / Yolanda García Hernández / Avelino Corral Esteban / Adrian Jose Acosta Jimenez / Mónica Ferreira Mayrink O' Kuinghttons / Jekaterina Rogaten : Case Study 3: Virtual Exchange for student to student collaboration — Pilar Garcés / Robert O'Dowd / Margarita Vinagre : Conclusions and recommendations for further implementation of Virtual Exchange in teacher education
