The trouble with telecollaboration in BMELTET

Marina Orsini; Abraham Cervero' Carrascosa; B. Zou

doi:10.14705/rpnet.2020.48.1198

The trouble with telecollaboration in BMELTET

Marina Orsini, Abraham Cervero' Carrascosa, B. Zou

School of Humanities

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This study reports on the 2019-2020 October-February cycle of project BMELTET (Blending Massive Open Online Courses in English Teacher Education with Telecollaboration). The project blends the MOOC Understanding Language (Futurelearn) with telecollaboration (or Collaborative Online International Learning – COIL or Virtual Exchange, VE). It involves students enrolled on teacher education courses at both undergraduate level (from Spain) and postgraduate level (from the UK and China). This work discusses some of the challenges encountered in this 2019-2020 pre-COVID cycle and proposes, in line with other previous related studies, that telecollaboration (or COIL or VE, Virtual Exchange) is troublesome for students as it takes them out of their comfort zone. It does not align with what they were expecting to study at university. At the same time, BMELTET illustrates the gains that students and staff can make when engaging in such a project and its transformational impact on their beliefs

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CALL for widening participation
Subtitle of host publication	short papers from EUROCALL 2020 (Online event)
Editors	Sylvie Thouësny, Linda Bradley, Sanne Larsen, Karen-Margrete Frederiksen
Place of Publication	Dublin
Publisher	Research-publishing.net
Pages	259-265
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Print)	978-2-490057-81-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2020.48.1198
Publication status	Published - 15 Dec 2020
Event	EuroCALL online gathering 2020 - Online/University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Duration: 20 Aug 2020 → 21 Aug 2020 https://cip.ku.dk/english/events/previous_events/eurocall-2020/

Conference

Conference	EuroCALL online gathering 2020
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	Copenhagen
Period	20/08/20 → 21/08/20
Internet address	https://cip.ku.dk/english/events/previous_events/eurocall-2020/

Keywords

telecollaboratioCOILn
English language teacher education
COIL
MOOC
blended

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The trouble with telecollaboration in BMELTET. / Orsini, Marina; Cervero' Carrascosa, Abraham; Zou, B.

CALL for widening participation: short papers from EUROCALL 2020 (Online event). ed. / Sylvie Thouësny; Linda Bradley; Sanne Larsen; Karen-Margrete Frederiksen. Dublin : Research-publishing.net, 2020. p. 259-265.

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Orsini, M, Cervero' Carrascosa, A & Zou, B 2020, The trouble with telecollaboration in BMELTET. in S Thouësny, L Bradley, S Larsen & K-M Frederiksen (eds), CALL for widening participation: short papers from EUROCALL 2020 (Online event). Research-publishing.net, Dublin, pp. 259-265, EuroCALL online gathering 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark, 20/08/20. https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2020.48.1198

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