Adapting Project-Based Learning through Virtual Mobilities in Pandemic Times - TalkTech Project Revisited

Using Open Educational Resources (OER) provides further opportunities for collaboration both in higher education, especially during the last year, in pandemic times. Many universities have embraced video conferencing tools such as Zoom, WebEx, Teams, Skype and Google Meet for everyday learning activities with students. Virtual Mobility (VM) has a great potential to contribute to the internationalization, innovation and inclusion in higher education. This paper describes an ongoing collaboration between two universities, one in the United States and the other in Romania, where students use synchronous and asynchronous communication tools to work in a project-based learning model in information technology. Team members demonstrate, share, compare, and discuss their work, a virtual reality product, using online communication tools of their choice.