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Chapitre D'ouvrage Année : 2021

Virtual exchange: from students’ expectations to perceived outcomes

Résumé

What do students expect before starting a Virtual Exchange (VE) with peers? Are their initial expectations mirrored in the final outcomes they perceive after the VE experience? Or, else, do students acknowledge benefits and acquired skills which they did not expect at first? This study draws on qualitative and quantitative data collected across a variety of VE settings within the Erasmus+ EVOLVE project (16 VEs and 248 students in total). In a mixed-methods approach, it confronts students’ expectations and perceived outcomes in order to outline the learning potential of VE, beyond the specific learning objectives set in the different Higher Educational (HE) courses in which a VE was implemented. It brings to light that the overlap between students’ expectations and the benefits they see is only partial. The declared outcomes deviate more from the course learning objectives than the initial expectations do, and they are, unsurprisingly, more nuanced and manifold. Expectations of intercultural and language practice and skills development are more often aligned with outcomes voiced by students than is the case for digital and disciplinary skills. What stands out is a great occurrence of transferable skills in the outcomes, including collaborative, relational, and communicative skills that are not always promoted in the course objectives.

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hal-03324371 , version 1 (23-08-2021)

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Elke Nissen, Catherine Felce, Catherine Muller. Virtual exchange: from students’ expectations to perceived outcomes. Virtual exchange: towards digital equity in internationalisation, 1, Research-publishing.net, pp.139-155, 2021, ⟨10.14705/rpnet.2021.53.1296⟩. ⟨hal-03324371⟩

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