Online Intercultural Exchange
connecting, collaborating, co-creating
Teresa MacKinnon,
Principal Teaching Fellow, SFHEA
School of Modern Languages and Cultures
#Clavier project:
● large scale virtual exchange Warwick/Clermont Ferrand,
France
● Formal and informal learning, shared space on EWC
● professional development for staff
● connected educators extending to Poland, Sweden,
Japan, US, Finland...#clavedu G+ community
Context:
Virtual Exchange (OIE) development within Languages@Warwick
#clavier project case study published in INTENT report and tasks
uploaded to uni-collaboration database.
Growing interest in telecollaboration and online intercultural exchange
to support skills for “global graduates”
British Council Going Mobile report states virtual mobility provides:
“a rich seam of opportunities for interaction across borders”.
Higher Education Academy Internationalising Higher Education
Framework.
“...the future belongs to those who learn to work
together with other groups without regard to location,
heritage, and national and cultural difference”
(Grandin & Hedderich, 2009)
Key competencies in 3
broad categories
From DeSeCo project,
OECD.
• Students as creators
• Rhizomatic growth into teacher education
communities exploring new pedagogies
• Connecting through tasks – by proxy
• Virtual mobility becomes physical mobility
• Empowerment leads to unexpected studentled innovation
References:
Cross, Simon and Galley, Rebecca (2012) MOOC Badging and the Learning Arc. Blog post 16 November 2012. Available
from: http://oro.open.ac.uk/42038
O’Dowd, R., & Ware, P. (2009). Critical issues in telecollaborative task design. Computer Assisted Language Learning,
22(2), 173–188.
The Mozilla Foundation and Peer 2 Peer University (no date). Open Badges for Lifelong Learning. Working Document.
Retrieved 19.01.2015 from
https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/5/59/OpenBadges-Working-Paper_012312.pdf
Clavier on uni-collaboration.eu http://uni-collaboration.eu/?q=node/302
O’Dowd, R. (2013). The competencies of the telecollaborative teacher
https://warwick.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/Rob+O%27Dowd+presenting+at+cwil+day+2/1_e530960x
Haulk, M and MacKinnon,T. (2015). Soft certification of participant engagement and task completion
https://warwick.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/COIL+recording+final/1_aoyjttqe/6610831