The teaching will take place digitally. The teaching method, inspired by Team-based learning, offers a set-up that allows for competencies development:
1) Students from different partner institutions are set in multicultural and multilingual teams. The teams remain permanent throughout the whole course. The permanence of the teams allows relationships to form, but it also implies that students must manage relationships throughout the course with people different from themselves and work on their collaboration skills. In their teams, students will work on an international business project.
2) Each session focuses on a specific topic. Before class, students learn the basic knowledge/concepts at home, e.g., by reading assigned texts or watching a video lecture.
3) Class activities include group tests (multiple-choice questions) that check that the basic knowledge is understood and application activities, such as case studies and group discussions.
4) A few times during the semester, students engage in a peer-to-peer feedback exercise. This allows students to reflect on the process of working in a global team and see how their behaviours are perceived by team members who have other cultural backgrounds than theirs.
Thus, in addition to knowledge about collaborating in virtual teams across cultures (through theories and case studies), the course, as a whole, works as a experiential activity where students practice and develop their communication and collaboration skills.
The teaching sessions will take place between October 1st and media November.