Socio-constructivist Approach in an Intercultural Educational Videoconferencing Project
The article considers the use of socio-constructivistic principles in a cross-cultural academic project involving 30 universities around the world and performed via the technology of videoconferencing. It also emphasizes the need to prepare students both intellectually and psychologically for participation in such projects. An attempt to apply the <i>method of projects</i> as a means to organize active and collaborative learning and to increase student's autonomy is described.