No. 75 (2021): SPECIAL ISSUE:Virtual mobility: opening up educational mobilities

Editors of the Special Issue:
Gemma Tur Ferrer (University of the Balearic Islands, Spain)
gemma.tur@uib.es

Ilona Buchem (Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany)
buchem@beuth-hochschule.de

The characterization virtual mobility is based on three main conceptual pillars – international, digital and collaborative. We understand that these characteristics are common to other related concepts although an institutional agreement and the transcript of records for the exchange and recognition of credits seems to be a distinct characteristic of virtual mobility. A recent approach to virtual mobility has added the dimension of open education as the fourth pillar of virtual mobility and the new concept has been framed as Open Virtual Mobility. These different approaches show that the concept of virtual mobility can be interpreted and designed depending on the actual objectives, practices and educational contexts, as shown in the articles in this special issue.