{"id":37,"date":"2026-03-12T10:23:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T10:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trendedu.eu\/?p=37"},"modified":"2026-03-12T14:34:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T14:34:46","slug":"37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendedu.eu\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"TREnD 2026 Staff Training Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">TREnD 2026 Staff Training Program<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>TREnD is organized as a series of online conversations, and the Staff Training Program consists of interactive webinars offered to instructors across the TREnD partnership network, which includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>University of Leiden (Netherlands)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>University of Bologna (Italy)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>University of Helsinki (Finland)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Complutense University of Madrid (Spain)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (Netherlands)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Media &amp; Learning Association (Belgium)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Grand Valley State University (USA)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Emory University (USA)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Louisiana State University (USA)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The program is primarily aimed at university teachers who are planning to develop student virtual exchanges and immersive learning activities in the coming years. Each session lasts approximately 1.5 hours, consisting of a 40\u201345 minute lecture followed by a Q&amp;A discussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Participation is also open to interested educators and researchers from other networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Webinar Schedule (all times CET)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Session 1 \u2013 25 February, 3:00\u20134:30 pm<br>Kelly Tzoumis (DePaul University \/ Johns Hopkins University)<br>Introduction to COIL and Virtual Exchanges<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Session 2 \u2013 11 March, 3:00\u20134:30 pm<br>Bill Rankin (Yale University)<br>Integrating Critical Mapping into Higher Education<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Session 3 \u2013 25 March, 3:00\u20134:30 pm<br>Miriam Mulders (University of Duisburg-Essen)<br>Employing Virtual and Extended Reality in Higher Education<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Session 4 \u2013 20 April, 3:00\u20134:30 pm<br>Hanna Lappalainen (University of Helsinki)<br>UNAVEX and Virtual Exchange Practices<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TREnD 2026 Staff Training Program TREnD is organized as a series of online conversations, and the Staff Training Program consists of interactive webinars offered to instructors across the TREnD partnership network, which includes: The program is primarily aimed at university teachers who are planning to develop student virtual exchanges and immersive learning activities in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendedu.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendedu.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendedu.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendedu.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendedu.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trendedu.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"https:\/\/trendedu.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendedu.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendedu.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendedu.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendedu.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}