Via Virtual Exchange students work together online on tasks and develop several skills such as cooperation and intercultural communication, in addition to professional knowledge. After following this workshop, you are able to
- Formulate actions to adapt your course design to integrate VE.
- Motivate the opportunities for integrating an international experience in your course.
- Select activities/tasks and tools for collaborative and international teamwork of students.
-Discuss possible solutions for basic challenges of VE.
Registration available soon.
This workshop is organised in collaboration with the European University Alliance ‘Circle U’, with partners based in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, and Serbia. In this international setting you will familiarize with Virtual Exchange as a pedagogical activity for engaging students in authentic intercultural collaborative projects with international partners.After completing the course, you will be able to:
- Explain the potential learning outcomes of Virtual Exchanges
- Do the steps for setting up and running a Virtual Exchange in your course
- Use a collection of materials and examples as inspiration for your activities
- Network with teachers from other countries in order to establish potential Virtual Exchange partnerships
3, 5, 10 and 12 Nov 2025: Find more information and register here.
8, 15 Jun 2026: Find more information and register here.
In this international workshop setting you will familiarize with the concept of Virtual Exchange (resp. COIL), reflect on your own teaching culture and discover the learning and teaching culture of your partners. You will collaborate to create a Virtual Exchange setting for your students and create first ideas for fostering the collaboration of your students.After this workshop you will be able to:
- Explicate how culture influences teaching and learning processes at universities
- Describe the intercultural challenges for your students in a Virtual Exchange setting
- Apply different teaching activities that support Virtual Exchange and intercultural learning for your students
- Collaborate with other teachers from the European university on Virtual Exchange activities
18 Feb 2026: Find more information and register here.
11 Sep 2026: Find more information and register here.
In this workshop you will learn about the principles of creating teaching materials that support the facilitation of classes conducted with the Challenge Based Learning (CBL). After this workshop you will be able to:
- Know the principles of designing and types of teaching materials suitable for CBL for independent learning or filling in by Students.
- Draw conclusions about the strengths and weaknesses of your own teaching materials, both closed (for review) and open (to be filled in by Students).
- Improve your own teaching materials and design modern materials useful for the CBL.
Register by 25 Nov 2025. Find more information and register here.
In this international setting you will work through hands-on activities and examples of real service-learning (SL) experiences in higher education. You will also discover a check-list to implement service-learning, and design your own SL experience for one of your courses. After this workshop you will be able to:
- Describe service-learning methodology and identify its defining elements.
- Identify the steps to implement service-learning methodology in a course.
Register by 1 Jun 2026. Find more information and register here.
