2.3 Virtual exchange

One educational practice that has many applications for supporting collaboration within teaching addressing the climate crisis is virtual exchange. Virtual exchange involves bringing together groups of learners from different cultural and/or geographical contexts for extended periods of online collaboration under the guidance of an educator within a programme of study (O’Dowd, 2020). A different term: telecollaboration is often used interchangeably with virtual exchange to emphasise that this pedagogy uses online rather than text-based activities.