Virtual Innovation and Support Networks
Exploring the Impact of Virtual Exchange in Teacher Education
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Summary
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 together 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.
Details
- Pages
- 200
- Year
- 2024
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783034349239
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9783034349246
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9783034347525
- DOI
- 10.3726/b21769
- Open Access
- CC-BY
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- Continuous professional development Virtual Exchange Online Learning Computer Mediated Communication Teacher Education
- Published
- Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, YEAR. PAGES.
Biographical notes
Robert O'Dowd (Volume editor)
Margarita Vinagre (Volume editor)
Robert O'Dowd is full professor for English Studies at the Universidad de León, Spain. He has taught at universities in Ireland, Germany and Spain and has published extensively on the application of Virtual Exchange in higher education. He was recently listed in Stanford University’s ‘Ranking of the World Scientists: World´s Top 2% Scientists’. Margarita Vinagre is full professor of Applied Linguistics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She has taught at universities in Ireland, United States and Spain and has published widely on the integration of Virtual Exchange in higher education. She coordinates the TELNETCOM research group on Virtual Exchange with 22 researchers from 7 countries.
