Encouraging Transnational Learning Through Virtual Exchange in Global Teacher Education

Slapac, Alina · Huertas-Abril, Cristina A.

May 2024 · IGI Global

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The literature on higher education discusses globalization and internationalization in areas such as competencies, mobility, policies, and knowledge transfer. The COVID-19 pandemic and advancing educational technologies have prompted universities to rethink education, leading to innovative ways for teacher educators and students to connect and learn virtually. Educators and administrators are seeking to advance their teaching through intercultural partnerships and relevant models to improve the quality of education through international connections. The current global situation has also prompted the need to further knowledge of communication technologies.

Encouraging Transnational Learning Through Virtual Exchange in Global Teacher Education aims to provide resources and recommendations for global teacher educators, practitioners, researchers, and pre-service and in-service teachers on developing international virtual exchange programs in teacher education. The book aims to showcase effective online pedagogies, provide practical values of online collaborative teaching and learning, and connect theory to practice in critical global citizenship, digital literacies, and teacher development. Led by educators and researchers in teacher education programs involved in virtual exchange partnerships and research, the book shares implications for teacher development with an international component based on shared studies. The book will be a resource for connecting international partners and efforts to internationalize institutions. Covering topics such as virtual exchanges, collaborative online international learning (COIL), telecollaboration, and global education, this book is ideal for international teachers, teacher trainers, students, and researchers interested in collaborative online international learning (COIL).

About the author

Alina Slapac is an associate professor of action research, and curriculum and instruction in the College of Education, Department of Educator Preparation & Leadership at the University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL), USA. Her research interests include teacher preparation and development with focus on virtual exchange (VE) contexts through the social justice lens, internationalization of teacher education and global citizenship education, (participatory) action research, culturally and linguistically responsive teaching (culture as strength), and transformative pedagogy. She has been collaborating with educators from China, Norway, Romania, Spain, South Africa, South Korea and USA on research and teaching, including Collaborative International Learning (COIL) partnerships. She has also received three prestigious university teaching awards: Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (UMSL, 2022), The Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (UMSL, 2020) and Emerson Excellence in Teaching Award (UMSL, 2013). Dr. Slapac has been an UMSL Global Fellow and an UMSL Inquiry Circles Fellow on global competency. Among numerous journal articles and book chapters, she also co-edited two books: Handbook of Research on the Global Empowerment of Educators and Student Learning through Action Research (Slapac, Balcerzak & O’Brien, 2021) and Beyond Language Learning Instruction: Transformative Supports for Emergent Bilinguals and Educators (Slapac & Coppersmith, 2019) (IGI Global). She currently serves as the Vice-Chair for Internationalization of Teacher Education TAG (Topic Action Group) through the American Association for Colleges of Teacher Education (ACCTE).

Cristina A. Huertas-Abril , Associate Professor, belongs to the Department of English and German Studies of the University of Córdoba (Spain), where she teaches at the Faculty of Education Sciences and Psychology. She is the Principal Investigator of the Research Group HUM-1122 Research in Languages, Technology and Education (RELATED). Her research mainly focuses on Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), teaching English as a Foreign Language, bilingual education and teacher training. [Editor]

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