Virtual Mobility in International Work Placements

Virtual mobility can be an alternative or an addition to physical mobility when it comes to realizing the goals of internationalizing European higher education. Virtual mobility is a term that has a broad scope. At AVNet, an educational support unit of the K.U.Leuven (BE), we define the concept of virtual mobility as „a set of ICTsupported activities that realise or facilitate international, collaborative experiences in a context of teaching and /or learning“. There are different levels at which virtual mobility can be implemented in higher education: the level of the assignment, the course, the curriculum, etc. In this paper we will focus on the enhancement of international work placements through the use of new technologies.