A Case Study on the Cultivation and Sustainability of Knowledge Sharing and Digital Trust: A COIL Project with Mexican and Turkish University Students

2021-11-24
Kaçar, Işıl Günseli
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The educational settings in the 21st century are characterized by an emphasis on the development of skillssuch as communication, collaboration, and critical thinking and technology integration. Telecollaboration hasrecently been a widely adopted educational practice where learners are engaged in developing theaforementioned skills via online intercultural interaction in collaboration with their peers on an internationallevel under the supervision of facilitators and/or instructors as an integral part of the instruction (Lewis &O’Dowd, 2016; O’Dowd, 2016). Over the past decades, telecollaboration has been referred to as onlineintercultural exchange (O’Dowd, 2007) or virtual exchange (VE) (Helm, 2016).
knowledge sharing, Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) projects/virtual exchange, interculturality, context-dependent, social learning theory
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/101072
5th International Service Management Congress
Department of Foreign Language Education, Conference / Seminar

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I. G. Kaçar, “A Case Study on the Cultivation and Sustainability of Knowledge Sharing and Digital Trust: A COIL Project with Mexican and Turkish University Students,” presented at the 5th International Service Management Congress, Hannover, Almanya, 2021, Accessed: 00, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/101072.
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