Virtual exchange in teacher education : is there an impact in teacher practice?
Dooly Owenby, Melinda (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Date:	Research-publishing.net 2020
Abstract:	This text presents the results of surveys and interviews of Former Students (FSs) who have taken part in a teacher education course that began in 2004 (still on-going) and that includes Virtual Exchange (VE). The study aimed to look at the impact of two teacher education courses, imparted collaboratively between geographically-distanced universities for over a decade. The course design aims to introduce VE, both theoretically and empirically, as an approach to foreign language teaching in primary and secondary schools. The data are drawn from an online survey as well as in-depth interviews with FSs enrolled in the course between 2004 and 2015. The findings indicate that a significantly high percentage of the FSs who had been exposed to VE had been involved in or intended to implement VE in their own teaching and that the course had provided them with the knowledge and confidence to do so.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Capítol de llibre
Subject:	Virtual exchange ; Telecollaboration ; Teacher education ; Applied learning
Published in:	Virtual exchange and 21st century teacher education : short papers from the 2019 EVALUATE conference, 2020, p. 101-113

DOI: 10.14705/rpnet.2020.46.1136

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