International Virtual Exchange Conference (IVEC) 2021 special issue: editorial

Abstract

We are excited to bring you this Special Issue of the Journal of Virtual Exchange, the third volume to publish articles resulting from the International Virtual Exchange Conference (IVEC) 2021. This special issue features two research articles and one practice report presented at IVEC 2021. Each manuscript underwent a double-blind review, followed by rigorous editing and revising. The Virtual Exchange (VE) research in this special issue ranges from VE in pre-service teacher education to faculty inequity in the context of VEs. Fuchs et al. focus on task design and mediation in a pre-service teacher context. Dietrich and Jiménez et al. examine critical aspects experienced in various challenging environments.

Keywords

• teacher education
• mediation
• task design
• conflict country
• global education
• equity