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T1 Upscaling Virtual Exchange in University Education: Moving From Innovative Classroom Practice to Regional Governmental Policy
A1 O’Dowd, Robert
A1 Garcés García, María Pilar
K1 virtual exchange
K1 internationalization at home
K1 use of technology
K1 policies/strategies—national and regional
K1 policies/strategies—institutional
AB Virtual exchange (VE) is an educational practice that involves the engagement of groupsof learners in extended periods of online intercultural interaction and collaborationwith international peers as an integrated part of their educational programs and underthe guidance of educators and/or facilitators. Despite more than 20 years of researchand recent large-scale initiatives such as Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange, this approachremains relatively unknown and often misunderstood in international education.Based on the qualitative and quantitative data of an Erasmus+ KA3 European PolicyExperiment, which brought together practitioners, researchers, and ministerial policymakers from five European countries and autonomous regions, this article examinesthe challenges involved in implanting and upscaling an innovative practice such asVE in university internationalization practices. A case study from a Spanish regionalautonomy, which took part in the project, is used to highlight barriers to take-upand integration at classroom, institutional, and policy levels. The data also provide aclear illustration of how an international practice such as VE can gain recognition andsupport though the coordination of bottom-up and top-down initiatives.
SN 1028-3153
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/79141
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/79141
LA eng
NO Journal of Studies in International Education, Junio 2020, vol. 25, n. 3, p. 283-300.
DS UVaDOC
RD 11-ene-2026