Friendship and Relationships in Virtual and Intercultural Learning Groups

Abstract

This paper reports on a qualitative research study about the perceptions of university students who collaborated in a virtual and international project to learn about intercultural communication. The findings indicate that participants capitalised on the opportunity the project presented to find friends and develop relationships and that the social interaction also characterised and influenced the learning experience itself and had implications for engagement. The paper concludes that the subjectivities of social interaction are powerfully embedded in learning and need to be explored further in higher education studies in order to inform practice. Show more