The deadline for the call for proposals for our book on Blended Mobility in Higher Education is approaching. Send your abstracts using the application form before 1 July: forms.gle/StXJB9T1xazt...

Announcing our Erasmus+ BIP "Innovation in Foreign Language Education" for student teachers across Europe! This course combines online, international group projects and a mobility experience in León, Spain (Dec. 9-13, 2025). More info: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Call for chapter contributions to an edited volume on Blended Mobility in Higher Education. This volume will explore theoretical frameworks, showcase evidence-based practices and investigate the impact on students, faculty, and institutions. More information here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

“The Learning Process Is Mutual”: Connecting Student Teachers and In-Service Teachers in Intercultural Virtual Exchange - My new article with co-author Sina Werner has now been published in open access: www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/14... #VirtualExchange

Just submitted a proposal for this conference which will take place at Trinity College Dublin in November 2025. A fine place for a conference! #VirtualExchange #AppliedLinguistics

#IRAAL2025 🌟50th Anniversary 🌟 will by hosted by CLCS and Lumiere in Trinity College Dublin. See the Call for Papers | Gairm ar pháipéir for details.

Save the date! The UNICollaboration Research Conference is coming to Cyprus University of Technology on 4th & 5th June 2026!

Developing intercultural citizenship through Virtual Exchange often means engaging your students with uncomfortable and controversial topics. This article by Byram, Porto & Wagner illustrates the challenges: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ftr/10.1...

Can't attend this year but this is a wonderful conference. Highly recommended.

This is very well written and insightful. But it's also very scary. snyder.substack.com/p/what-to-ex...

Any foreign language learner / speaker would have noticed what was happening on a linguistic level when Trump and Vance ambushed Zelenski. This excellent thread explains it very well.

Call for proposals for a wonderful conference in a magnificent location: ICC 2026: Intercultural Competence in a Rapidly Changing World: Supporting Sustainable Futures for All. February 27 – March 1, 2026 in Tucson, Arizona: icc.cercll.arizona.edu/cfp26/ @cercll.bsky.social

open.spotify.com/episode/3j1r... "You cannot defeat the hard physics of things" Friedman shows up what will eventually happen to Trump's plans and also explains why he is so eager to be nice to Russia.

Boris Pistorius, German Defence Minister, responds to Vance: "This is not acceptable... Democracy doesn’t mean that a vociferous minority will automatically be right. They cannot decide what truth is.... I am happy to live in Europe, where democracy is defended against internal & external enemies."

🌐 CALICO 2025: Converging Realities and Realms of Possibilities! 🌍 📅 May 27-31, 2025 🏛️ San Diego State University, San Diego, CA Registration is now open! Join us for CALICO 2025, where language learning and technology converge to explore emerging trends, research, and practical applications.

In 1939 it was appeasement, this time it's connivance. They are not the same.

A wonderful few days working with teachers from Technical University of Košice, Slovakia about how to design and run #VirtualExchange projects with partners of the Ulysseus European University. Wonderful to see how they offer seed funding to support online collaboration between partners.

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🎓 #EuroCALL2025 will take place at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, a historic and stunning venue in Milan! 🌿 Don’t miss this chance to present your work and explore a world-class city. 🗓️ 27–30 August 2025 | 📢 eurocall2025.com #eurocall #tblt #languagelearning #ELT #Edling #appliedlinguistics

The Stevens Initiative has just published their 2024 impact report on their @VirtualExchange initiatives: www.stevensinitiative.org/2024-year-in...

The call for papers for #EuroCALL 2025 is out! Don't miss the opportunity to share your work at our in-person conference in Milan on 27-30 August 2025. Check the website eurocall2025.com

Interesting new open access article about how pre-university teachers use Virtual Exchange by Ciara Wigham and colleagues: TRAINING NEEDS OF IN-SERVICE PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION TEACHERS WHEN IMPLEMENTING INTERCULTURAL VIRTUAL EXCHANGES hal.science/hal-04851000... #VirtualExchange

Start of a few exciting days with student teachers from all over Europe taking part in a Blended Intensive Programme. Thanks @robodowd.bsky.social for the invitation to join the group

This week we are welcoming at the Universidad de León student teachers and teacher trainers from 8 European countries and the US for our Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme on the theme of Innovation in Foreign Language Education.

Some questions that we need to be asking about AI and education (... from my keynote yesterday at the Udforsk AI conference)

Required reading (again) these days. Couldn't recommend this book more. @timothysnyder.bsky.social

Really looking forward to reading this new (open access) book by Francesca Helm: Intercultural Communication in Virtual Exchange: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

My co-authored article with Sina Werner “The First Steps of Blended Mobility in European Higher Education: A Survey of Blended Intensive Programmes ” is now published in Volume 28, Issue 5 of Journal of Studies in International Education. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Very interesting project aimed at integrating Primary and Pre-school Virtual Exchange Projects into Language Teacher Education: invited-project.eu/about/

Call for papers for a special issue of The Journal of English for Purposes of International Communication on the theme of Localizing English Medium Instruction (EMI): h-inet.org/special-issu...

I'm delighted to have been invited to join the board of the Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics. Thank you to Glenn Stockwell for the invitation to work with colleagues in the excellent open access journal. www.castledown.com/journals/aja...

Added! Any other #ve practitioners who would like to be added just message me here.

Finally! Well done Teresa. I'm sure there are lots of others we can add to this list... @giralts.bsky.social @stevethorne.bsky.social @ai4edu.bsky.social

What a great university to study foreign languages in Ireland @unioflimerick.bsky.social

Call for papers for a conference on digital linguistics and education in the magnificent city of Valencia next june: cilidi.webs.upv.es/en/ I look forward to attending and giving a keynote on the challenges facing Virtual Exchange in the new global educational landscape.

Good to see new research on Telecollaborative learning with young learners. We need more of this. Wigham, C.R. & Whyte, S. (2024). Teacher role in synchronous oral interaction: Young learner telecollaboration. Language Learning & Technology, 28(1), 1–27. hdl.handle.net/10125/73599 #VirtualExchange

A brilliant first day at the TEFL9 conference in Lisbon. I was amazed by the number of language teachers who are now doing #VirtualExchange in their classes. Some excellent presentations about the topic too. lnkd.in/d9vyd_5q

My heart breaks reading this article.

This is fantastic

Very interesting presentation at the TEFL conference in Lisbon on a project promoting #VirtualExchange in primary school teacher education. invited-project.eu/about/

On my way to Lisbon to speak about #VirtuaExchange at this conference on the theme of innovation in English language education. 2024tefl9.wordpress.com