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The authors have been organising the World Youth Meeting (WYM), an international collaborative project for more than two decades. Students in the authors’ university host the WYM in a faculty’s official lecture. Formerly, presentations during the event were face-to-face at the faculty’s official lecture room; however, the 2020 WYM was conducted online due to COVID-19 restrictions. In this study, the authors report on how the online WYM and the project-based learning (PBL) to host it were implemented in the context of COVID-19 restrictions. The impacts and challenges of PBL are discussed by analysing the data collected through the reflection form prepared by the teachers. Results show that meaningful events can be implemented and their core aims can be achieved. However, the quality of collaboration in PBL should be improved with limited and discretional use of face-to-face settings. It is also challenging to conduct the informal and casual parts of the event.
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Sato, S., Kageto, M. (2021). Implementation of an Online International Exchange Project for an Official University Lecture. In: Li, R., Cheung, S.K.S., Iwasaki, C., Kwok, LF., Kageto, M. (eds) Blended Learning: Re-thinking and Re-defining the Learning Process.. ICBL 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12830. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80504-3_30
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