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Robert O'Dowd

@robodowd.bsky.social
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Full Professor (Catedrático) in English Studies at Universidad de León, Spain. Researches Virtual Exchange, Blended Mobility & English medium Instruction.

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Robert O'Dowd @robodowd.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
The deadline for the call for proposals for our book on Blended Mobility in Higher Education is approaching. Send your abstracts using the application form before 1 July: forms.gle/StXJB9T1xazt...
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Abstract submission for "Blended Mobility in Higher Education - International Perspectives, Practices and Outcomes"
For more information on the volume, please see this document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PjB0mxW3Z8qDcpLPXFnlNnlMIbwGrrpCUdqNUYcGTWM/edit?tab=t.0 Submit your abstract here before 1 July 2025.
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Robert O'Dowd @robodowd.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Announcing our Erasmus+ BIP "Innovation in Foreign Language Education" for student teachers across Europe! This course combines online, international group projects and a mobility experience in León, Spain (Dec. 9-13, 2025). More info: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Robert O'Dowd @robodowd.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Call for chapter contributions to an edited volume on Blended Mobility in Higher Education. This volume will explore theoretical frameworks, showcase evidence-based practices and investigate the impact on students, faculty, and institutions. More information here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Robert O'Dowd @robodowd.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
“The Learning Process Is Mutual”: Connecting Student Teachers and In-Service Teachers in Intercultural Virtual Exchange - My new article with co-author Sina Werner has now been published in open access: www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/14... #VirtualExchange
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Robert O'Dowd @robodowd.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Just submitted a proposal for this conference which will take place at Trinity College Dublin in November 2025. A fine place for a conference! #VirtualExchange #AppliedLinguistics
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Colin Flynn (Cóilín Ó Floinn) @colinjflynn.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
#IRAAL2025 🌟50th Anniversary 🌟 will by hosted by CLCS and Lumiere in Trinity College Dublin. See the Call for Papers | Gairm ar pháipéir for details.
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Robert O'Dowd @robodowd.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Is there a website for the conference?
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Anna Nicolaou @annanicolaou0.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Save the date! The UNICollaboration Research Conference is coming to Cyprus University of Technology on 4th & 5th June 2026!
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Robert O'Dowd @robodowd.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Developing intercultural citizenship through Virtual Exchange often means engaging your students with uncomfortable and controversial topics. This article by Byram, Porto & Wagner illustrates the challenges: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ftr/10.1...
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Robert O'Dowd @robodowd.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Can't attend this year but this is a wonderful conference. Highly recommended.
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Robert O'Dowd @robodowd.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This is very well written and insightful. But it's also very scary. snyder.substack.com/p/what-to-ex...
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting Catastrophe
And What to Do. A guest essay by Laurie Winer
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Robert O'Dowd @robodowd.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Any foreign language learner / speaker would have noticed what was happening on a linguistic level when Trump and Vance ambushed Zelenski. This excellent thread explains it very well.
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Robert O'Dowd @robodowd.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Call for proposals for a wonderful conference in a magnificent location: ICC 2026: Intercultural Competence in a Rapidly Changing World: Supporting Sustainable Futures for All. February 27 – March 1, 2026 in Tucson, Arizona: icc.cercll.arizona.edu/cfp26/ @cercll.bsky.social
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ICC 2026: Call for Proposals | CERCLL Intercultural Competence Conference
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Robert O'Dowd @robodowd.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
open.spotify.com/episode/3j1r... "You cannot defeat the hard physics of things" Friedman shows up what will eventually happen to Trump's plans and also explains why he is so eager to be nice to Russia.
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Thomas Friedman Has Given Up on Politics — but Not on the World
The Opinions · Episode
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Boris Pistorius, German Defence Minister, responds to Vance: "This is not acceptable... Democracy doesn’t mean that a vociferous minority will automatically be right. They cannot decide what truth is.... I am happy to live in Europe, where democracy is defended against internal & external enemies."
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Mery Díez-Ortega, PhD @meryenda.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
🌐 CALICO 2025: Converging Realities and Realms of Possibilities! 🌍 📅 May 27-31, 2025 🏛️ San Diego State University, San Diego, CA Registration is now open! Join us for CALICO 2025, where language learning and technology converge to explore emerging trends, research, and practical applications.
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Robert O'Dowd @robodowd.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
In 1939 it was appeasement, this time it's connivance. They are not the same.
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Robert O'Dowd @robodowd.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
A wonderful few days working with teachers from Technical University of Košice, Slovakia about how to design and run #VirtualExchange projects with partners of the Ulysseus European University. Wonderful to see how they offer seed funding to support online collaboration between partners.
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Newnet @madoe2014.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Repost if you are with Bishop Budde
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EuroCALL 2025 Conference @eurocall2025.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
🎓 #EuroCALL2025 will take place at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, a historic and stunning venue in Milan! 🌿 Don’t miss this chance to present your work and explore a world-class city. 🗓️ 27–30 August 2025 | 📢 eurocall2025.com #eurocall #tblt #languagelearning #ELT #Edling #appliedlinguistics
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Robert O'Dowd @robodowd.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
The Stevens Initiative has just published their 2024 impact report on their @VirtualExchange initiatives: www.stevensinitiative.org/2024-year-in...
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2024 Impact Report - Stevens Initiative
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EuroCALL 2025 Conference @eurocall2025.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
The call for papers for #EuroCALL 2025 is out! Don't miss the opportunity to share your work at our in-person conference in Milan on 27-30 August 2025. Check the website eurocall2025.com
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EuroCALL 2025 - Milano
Università Cattolica | 27-30 August 2025
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Robert O'Dowd @robodowd.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Interesting new open access article about how pre-university teachers use Virtual Exchange by Ciara Wigham and colleagues: TRAINING NEEDS OF IN-SERVICE PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION TEACHERS WHEN IMPLEMENTING INTERCULTURAL VIRTUAL EXCHANGES hal.science/hal-04851000... #VirtualExchange
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Catherine Jeanneau @cathjeanneau.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Start of a few exciting days with student teachers from all over Europe taking part in a Blended Intensive Programme. Thanks @robodowd.bsky.social for the invitation to join the group
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Robert O'Dowd @robodowd.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
This week we are welcoming at the Universidad de León student teachers and teacher trainers from 8 European countries and the US for our Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme on the theme of Innovation in Foreign Language Education.
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Robert O'Dowd @robodowd.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The Irish times links in bluesky to the main homepage and not to the article - am I doing something wrong or is the @irishtimes.bsky.social ?
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Neil Selwyn @neilselwyn.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Some questions that we need to be asking about AI and education (... from my keynote yesterday at the Udforsk AI conference)
Points for future discussion
 
* What forms of AI are utterly irredeemable – things we need fight hard against and eradicate?

* What aspects of education are utterly sacrosanct – things we need to fight hard for and protect?

* Is it possible to develop forms of AI to do different/new/hitherto unimaginable things (not just business-as-usual)?

* Is it possible to develop forms of AI that are mindful of the rich diversity of learning & teaching that exist?

* Is it possible to develop forms of educational AI that are not environmentally harmful?
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Robert O'Dowd @robodowd.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Good luck with that!
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Robert O'Dowd @robodowd.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Listened to the tracks version of stolen car ten times last night. How was it not chosen over the other version?
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Robert O'Dowd @robodowd.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Required reading (again) these days. Couldn't recommend this book more. @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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Robert O'Dowd @robodowd.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Reading it again right now. That kind of sums up the world right now.
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Robert O'Dowd @robodowd.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Really looking forward to reading this new (open access) book by Francesca Helm: Intercultural Communication in Virtual Exchange: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Intercultural Communication in Virtual Exchange
Cambridge Core - Social and Cultural Anthropology - Intercultural Communication in Virtual Exchange
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Robert O'Dowd @robodowd.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
My co-authored article with Sina Werner “The First Steps of Blended Mobility in European Higher Education: A Survey of Blended Intensive Programmes ” is now published in Volume 28, Issue 5 of Journal of Studies in International Education. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Robert O'Dowd @robodowd.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Very interesting project aimed at integrating Primary and Pre-school Virtual Exchange Projects into Language Teacher Education: invited-project.eu/about/
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About - INVITED Project
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Robert O'Dowd @robodowd.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Call for papers for a special issue of The Journal of English for Purposes of International Communication on the theme of Localizing English Medium Instruction (EMI): h-inet.org/special-issu...
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Special Issue: Localizing English Medium Instruction (EMI)
CALL FOR PAPERS Special issue, edited by Ofra Inbar-Lourie and Elana Spector-Cohen, Tel-Aviv University, Israel English Medium Instruction (EMI) has emerged in the last two decades as a widely rese…
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Robert O'Dowd @robodowd.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I'm delighted to have been invited to join the board of the Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics. Thank you to Glenn Stockwell for the invitation to work with colleagues in the excellent open access journal. www.castledown.com/journals/aja...
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Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics
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Teresa MacKinnon @warwicklanguage.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Added! Any other #ve practitioners who would like to be added just message me here.
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Robert O'Dowd @robodowd.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Finally! Well done Teresa. I'm sure there are lots of others we can add to this list... @giralts.bsky.social @stevethorne.bsky.social @ai4edu.bsky.social
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Robert O'Dowd @robodowd.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
You also do an excellent job teaching foreign languages to Irish students. I experienced that first hand.
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Robert O'Dowd @robodowd.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
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Robert O'Dowd @robodowd.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
What a great university to study foreign languages in Ireland @unioflimerick.bsky.social
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Robert O'Dowd @robodowd.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Call for papers for a conference on digital linguistics and education in the magnificent city of Valencia next june: cilidi.webs.upv.es/en/ I look forward to attending and giving a keynote on the challenges facing Virtual Exchange in the new global educational landscape.
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Robert O'Dowd @robodowd.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Good to see new research on Telecollaborative learning with young learners. We need more of this. Wigham, C.R. & Whyte, S. (2024). Teacher role in synchronous oral interaction: Young learner telecollaboration. Language Learning & Technology, 28(1), 1–27. hdl.handle.net/10125/73599 #VirtualExchange
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Teacher role in synchronous oral interaction: Young learner telecollaboration
The potential of synchronous technology-mediated oral interaction for second language (L2) acquisition by young learners interests researchers and classroom teachers alike. Research highlights the uti...
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Robert O'Dowd @robodowd.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
A brilliant first day at the TEFL9 conference in Lisbon. I was amazed by the number of language teachers who are now doing #VirtualExchange in their classes. Some excellent presentations about the topic too. lnkd.in/d9vyd_5q
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Robert O'Dowd @robodowd.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
My heart breaks reading this article.
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Robert O'Dowd @robodowd.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Please add me if possible
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Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org · 15/11/2024
This is fantastic
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Robert O'Dowd @robodowd.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Very interesting presentation at the TEFL conference in Lisbon on a project promoting #VirtualExchange in primary school teacher education. invited-project.eu/about/
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Robert O'Dowd @robodowd.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
On my way to Lisbon to speak about #VirtuaExchange at this conference on the theme of innovation in English language education. 2024tefl9.wordpress.com
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