UNIC 3_3: International Co-Teaching. Integrating Virtual Exchange into the university classroom

In this online course you will familiarize with Virtual Exchange as a pedagogical activity for engaging students in authentic intercultural collaborative projects with international partners.

Virtual Exchange means the engagement of students in online intercultural interaction and collaboration with students from other cultural contexts as an integrated part of their course work under the guidance of their educators. The teachers are planning a Virtual Exchange in a teaching cooperation.

The purpose is to practice how to co-plan and teach with elements of Virtual Exchange. Especially the transfer of the concept into the disciplinary teaching conventions, the integration into the syllabus of the course, the construction of tasks and the support and mentoring of the students during a Virtual Exchange is focused during the course. You will meet teachers from different universities all over Europe in this training.

The workshop will take place online and be held in English (lingua franca).

Attention: The workshop consists of 4 synchronous meetings of 1,5 hours as well as an asynchronous preparation of 30 min. The meetings will be held on Mo. 04.11.2024,  Wed. 06.11.2024, Mo. 11.11.2024 and Wed. 13.11.2024 from 16.00 to 17.30.