Cover -- Contents -- Series Editors' Preface -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction (Nataly Tcherepashenets) -- Telecollaboration and Lessons in World Citizenship -- Technology and Poiēsis of Learning -- Telecollaboration and Innovation in Online Pedagogy and Education Research -- Overview of the Book -- References -- Part I: Telecollaboration as a Practice of Inclusion -- Globalizing Online: Binary Distinctions or Global Partaking? (Hayat Al-Khatib) -- Introduction -- The Use of Telecollaboration in Various Online Education Programs -- Online Education: Comparison between Developing and Developed Countries -- Binary Distinctions or Global Partaking -- The Context of the Study -- Telecollaboration, Internationalization and Social Justice: An Analysis of the Program -- Findings and Conclusion -- References -- Telecollaboration in the Clash of High- and Low-context Cultures: Social Justice at Stake (Anna Turula) -- Introduction -- Telecollaboration vis à vis Bakhtinian Architectonics of Being: Its Potential for Social Justice -- Culture Clash in Telecollaboration: Social Justice at Stake -- Training for Telecollaboration: an Inductive Approach -- Training for Telecollaboration: a Deductive Approach -- Conclusions -- References -- Evaluation of an International Online Learning
Initiative in Special Education (Rebekah Mcpherson, Kelley King, Andrew Milson, and Mary Bailey Estes) -- Materials and Methods -- Participants -- Course Information -- Procedures for Data Collection -- Reliability and Validity -- Procedures for Data Analysis -- Results -- Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- Part II: Web 2.0 and Social Change -- Opening up Worlds: Intercultural Exchanges through Telecollaboration (Derya Kulavuz-Onal and Camilla Vásquez).

Online collaboration with the language- learning software @genda 2.0 (Dominique Vinet) -- Introduction -- A Double Target: Developing Language Skills and Understanding Cultural Differences -- @genda 2.0: an Online Collaborative Platform -- Phasing of the project -- The Notion of Collaboration and Connectivism -- The Teacher as an Online Mediator -- Building rapport -- Achieving Mutual Understanding Through Web-based Learning -- References -- Between "Pleasantville" and "My Way or the Highway": Promoting Productive Discussion of Social Justice in a Globally Linked Learning Environment (Rebecca Charry Roje and David S. Martins) -- Language Difference and Social Justice -- "Writing Seminar": A Globally Networked Course -- Cultural Sharing in Online "Café Bar" Discussions -- Integrating Online and F2F Discussion: Regional Differences in Croatia -- "My Way or the Highway": Negotiating Meaning in Collaborative Writing Tasks -- Opportunities and Challenges -- References -- Part III: Intercultural Encounters as Transformative Experiences -- 'What Do We Chat about When We Chat about Culture?' The Discourse of Online Intercultural Exchanges (Wendy Anderson and John Corbett) -- The Educational Context -- Global Discourse and Participant Identities -- The platform -- The participants -- Transportable identities -- Constructing identity by expressing affect -- Negotiating conflicting identities -- Territories and interventions -- Scaffolding -- Conclusions -- References -- Student-driven intercultural awareness raising with MexCo: agency, autonomy and threshold concepts in a telecollaborative project between the UK and Mexico (Marina Orsini-Jones, Elwyn Lloyd, Zoe Gazeley, Gwenola Bescond and Beatriz Vera López) -- Empowering Critical Multiliteracies and ChallengingMultimodal Digital Competences.

Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC):Byram's ICC model and new Web 2.0 ICC considerations -- Threshold Concepts and Action Research -- The MexCo Project -- Data collected -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Internationalizing U.S. Students with Hip-hop and Social Networks (Himanee Gupta-Carlson) -- Internationalizing with Social Networks -- Creating a Globally Networked Classroom -- Dialogue, dissension, and discomfort -- Social Network Sites as Learning Spaces -- Internationalization and social justice -- References -- Conclusion (Nataly Tcherepashenets) -- References -- Index.