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VIRTUAL DUAL IMMERSION PROGRAM

VIRTUAL DUAL IMMERSION PROGRAM. AUSJAL and AJCU. “Leveraging Connections”. VIRTUAL DUAL IMMERSION PROGRAM WHO ARE WE?. We are a Hub Telecollaboration project based on language and cultural exchange and intercultural exploration across contexts. 22 Universities in USA and Latin America

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VIRTUAL DUAL IMMERSION PROGRAM

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  1. VIRTUAL DUAL IMMERSION PROGRAM AUSJAL and AJCU “Leveraging Connections”

  2. VIRTUAL DUAL IMMERSION PROGRAMWHO ARE WE? • We are a Hub • Telecollaboration project based on language and cultural exchange and intercultural exploration across contexts. • 22 Universities in USA and Latin America • More than 14,000 participants since 2006 • More than 175 collaborating faculty

  3. NETWORKING COMMUNITY “When separate, local efforts connect with each other as networks, then strengthen as communities of practice, suddenly and surprisingly a new system emerges at a greater level of scale. This system of influence possesses qualities and capacities that were unknown in the individuals. ” Wheatley 2008

  4. AJCU MAP

  5. HOW WE LEVERAGED OUR CONNECTIONS AUSJAL & AJCU AJCU

  6. PROGRAM EVOLUTION 2006 2010 2008 2009 2011 2012 2013

  7. STUDENT PARTICIPANT NUMBERS Student Totals 38 826 128 302 2,520 9,631 14,448 YEAR 2006 2011 2008 2009 2011 2012 2013

  8. RESISTANCE AND EVOLUTION How have we coped with resistance? What has allowed us to continue to evolve?

  9. PROJECT COORDINATION TEAM • Conductors of connection and movement • Receive requests • Establish contacts based on expectations and preferred models • Needs and contextual analysis of request • Connect coordinators based on potential opportunity for best experience • Confirm session and connection • Follow through on success and challenges • Negotiate path to success • Mentor one another to continue to evolve and get better

  10. MAKING PRIORITY BE COMMUNITY “As networks grow and transform into active, working communities of practice, we discover how life truly changes, which is through emergence.” Wheatley 2008

  11. Professional Development Guest Speakers Thematic Webinars with Experts from our Universities Virtual Interviews Virtual Conferences A COMMUNITY EVOLVING BY COLLABORATING WITH OTHER NETWORKS Research Projects in addition to individual faculty research. University of Iowa and Virtual Dual Immersion Project. 1.) Sociolinguistics and Telecollaboration 2.) Resistance in coordination and faculty

  12. OUR VISION EVOLVE AS A COMMUNITY IN FOUR AREAS: • More members and universities • Innovate new models and methods • Better infrastructure, improve processes • Deeper integration to global hubs and networks

  13. BIBLIOGRAPHY MONTES, Jairo A. y Solanlly Ochoa A. (2006) Apropiación de las tecnologías de la información y comunicación en cursos universitarios. En: Revista Acta Colombiana de Psicología V. 0 N. 2. Bogotá O’DOWD, Robert. (2007) Online Intercultural Exchange. An introduction for Foreign Language Teaching. Ed. Michael Byram, University of Durham, UK, Alison Phipps, University of Glasgow, UK. O’DOWD, Robert. (2011) Intercultural Communicative competence through telecollaboration. En: Jane Jackson (Ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Language and Intercultural Communication. Routledge. SCOLARI, Carlos. (2009) Hipermediaciones. Gedisa Barcelona WENGER, Etienne (2006) Communities of Practice. http://www.ewenger.com/theory/ WHEATLEY, Magaret; FRIEZE, Deborah (2008) Using Emergence to Take Social Innovation to Scale. Publication of The Berkana Institute Margaret www.berkana.org.

  14. Contacts • Colleen Coffey • ccoffey30@yahoo.com • Carolina Marturet • cmarturet@gmail.com • Oscar Mora • oscmoras@javerianacali.edu.co

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