Learning outside the box
Date
2020-06-17Discipline
EducaciónAbstract
International education has been particularly affected by the global health crisis. Students have had to stop their mobility and therefore international collaboration requires redesigning and adapting to the ongoing pandemic and its consequences.
The Catholic University of Valencia 'San Vicente Mártir' is working on the application of mobilities and virtual exchanges between students and academics at a global level. This contribution describes the differences between mobility and virtual exchange. We present the benefits and risks when carrying out virtual exchanges, the technologies that facilitate them, the active methodologies that best frame these practices and two examples of pilot interventions carried out in two different areas: teacher training and business English. The results of both interventions are presented from the point of view of teachers and university students.