Maria de Lurdes Martins
Maria de Lurdes Martins is a faculty member at the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, where she teaches English for Tourism to undergraduate students. She holds a PhD in Linguistics (2012) from the University of Aveiro. Her research interests include virtual exchange, technology in foreign language teaching/, intercultural collaboration, Web 2.0 enhanced foreign language learning, dialogical and dialectical language learning and social networked language learning. She is one of the co-founders of the Consortium of Virtual Exchange. She has been part of virtual exchange projects since 2014.
Areas of expertise: virtual mobility, digitally mediated international collaboration, international project planning and management, higher education, school education, vocational training, e-learning, language learning, languages for specific purposes.
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Virtual exchanges are not only beneficial for students but can also enhance educators’ digital competences. The European Framework for the Digital Competence of Educators (2017) has been applied to a virtual exchange project on sustainability to show how higher education (HE) teachers from two different continents have been able to improve their digital competence level while contributing to the internationalization of their HE institutions.