Virtual Exchange Toolkit

A guide for libraries, museums and community groups

About Virtual Exchange
About this project

Widening opportunities for intercultural learning

Thanks to a Churchill Fellowship, I traveled to the USA and Japan to learn from pioneers of Virtual Exchange in education.

I wanted to find out if this method could be taken outside of schools and universities, to give more people the opportunity to connect across borders and cultures.

The answer was yes, with the right support. The result is this toolkit – a guide to support anyone interested in Virtual Exchange.


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Start by finding out more about Virtual Exchange, then browse the series of articles to support you in setting up VE in your context. 

About Virtual Exchange
Deciding

What is VE? Case Studies and examples

by Nik
on May 26
Reading Time: 2 minutes Virtual Exchange is an umbrella term used to describe any online, international, people-to-people collaboration. Therefore, it can look very different […]
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Deciding

Finding your why: reasons to try Virtual Exchange

by Nik
on May 26
Reading Time: 2 minutes There are many reasons why Virtual Exchange is a valuable practice for participants. These include: An interdependent world We live […]
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CollaboratingDeciding

Finding a partner

by Nik
on May 26
Reading Time: 3 minutes There are really only two things you need to run a successful VE project: As you are reading this now, […]
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Meet the author

Churchill Fellow 2020

Nicola Beer

About me

I am a PhD student at Lancaster University, researching staff experiences of running Collaborative Online International Learning projects (a form of Virtual Exchange). I’m also Head of Digital Education and Inclusive Curriculum Enhancement at Oxford Brookes University, where I support lecturers in working with students to co-create a curriculum that is inclusive and makes the best use of digital tools. 

I was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 2020 to investigate the feasibility of making Virtual Exchange opportunities more widely available to adults not in education.