What is Virtual Exchange?
Virtual exchange is an accessible, groundbreaking international experience, which leverages on new technologies and a common lingua franca, and does not entail physical mobility.
Organised jointly between at least two international universities, Virtual exchange is a training activity consisting of little traditional/lecture-based teaching so to encourage a student-centred and leaner-led collaborative experience aimed at developing a common project and/or discussing interdisciplinary topics with a challenged-based approach.
The groups of international students meet remotely on collaborative platforms either autonomously or with a facilitator, who encourages active participation of group members and helps create a positive and collaborative debate without interfering with the contents of the course.
Virtual exchange differs from other forms of online learning in the following ways:
Why Should You Participate?
Virtual Exchange gives you the opportunity to:
Credits Recognition
Your participation in Virtual Exchange projects can be recognised in different ways.
If the course unit is included in the educational offer, the University will recognise the ECTS credits as:
Virtual Exchange Programmes