Eva Haug serves as the Educational Advisor for Curriculum Internationalisation and COIL/VE at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. She is also a Senior Lecturer in Intercultural Communication and a Research Fellow at the University of the Free State in South Africa. Eva specialises in professional development for Internationalisation of the Curriculum (IoC) and international online collaboration.
Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programmes (E-BIPs) hold great promise, but without coordinated planning and structure, their chaotic rollout hinders strategic and impactful international collaboration.
Reflecting on a year of on-the-fly online teaching and learning, these six factors have emerged as key elements of impactful online international classrooms.
Virtual exchange has gained popularity as a quick fix in times of closed borders – but are we really engaging in international virtual activities for the right reasons?