https://doi.org/10.1177/1077695820916620
Journalism & Mass Communication Educator
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Research Articles
Online Journalism Teaching
and Learning Processes
Beyond the Classroom and
the University: Experiences
in International Virtual
Collaboration on Multimedia
Projects
Ainara Larrondo Ureta
1
, Simón Peña Fernández
1
,
and Juliana Fernandes Teixeira
2
Abstract
The current media need for employees capable of producing multiplatform content
and thriving in collaborative environments. This has made digital journalism one of
the fields considered to have the greatest potential today for promoting professional,
research, and teaching innovation. In fact, online journalism has played a major role in
the renovation of communications curricula over the past two decades. This article
examines a case study on a teaching innovation project in online journalism based on
the Internationalization at Home (IaH) transversal perspective. It can be considered
as the first project examining this perspective in the journalism-teaching field. The
examined project was carried out by teachers and researchers of five Ibero-American
universities with the aim that virtual international students of the five universities
collaborated for the production of multimedia in-depth news reports. The article thus
analyses the teaching innovation experience and discusses it in terms of advantages
and disadvantages.
Keywords
online, journalism, teaching, innovation, IaH, Ibero-American
1
University of the Basque Country, Leioa, Spain
2
Federal University of Piauí, Teresina, Brazil
Corresponding Author:
Ainara Larrondo Ureta, Senior Lecturer, Journalism Department, Faculty of Social Sciences and
Communication, University of the Basque Country, Barrio Sarriena, 48940 Leioa, Bizkaia, Spain.
Email: ainara.larrondo@ehu.eus
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