Robert O'Dowd is Associate Professor for English as a Foreign Language and Applied Linguistics at the University of León, Spain. He has taught at universities in Ireland, Germany and Spain and has published widely on the application of collaborative online learning in university education. His most recent publication is the co-edited volume Online Intercultural Exchange Policy, Pedagogy, Practice for Routledge. He coordinated INTENT – an award-winning project financed by the European Commission aimed at promoting Virtual Exchange in European Higher Education and also coordinated the European Commission’s Erasmus plus KA3 project Evaluating and Upscaling Telecollaborative Teacher Education (EVALUATE) (582934-EPP-1-2016-2-ES-EPPKA3-PI-POLICY). He is also on the executive board of the UNICollaboration academic organization for telecollaboration and virtual exchange (www.unicollaboration.org). He has designed the English Medium Instruction (EMI) training and accreditation programme at his home university and has taught various EMI training programmes in universities in Spain, Italy, Lithuania and Austria. He works regularly as an expert evaluator for the European Commission. His publications are available here: http://unileon.academia.edu/RobertODowd and you can follow him on twitter @robodowd.

Location

León, Spain

Disciplines

• Languages

Affiliation

Universidad de León