 Teaching in virtual environments to enhance intercultural understanding between Germans and PeruviansKerstin Bremser and Mariella Olivos-Rossini World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development, 2017, vol. 13, issue 5/6, 635-646 Abstract: This teaching brief describes a novel form of acquiring intercultural competencies and foreign language skills in the classroom through the use of virtual environments. Two universities in two different cultural settings (Germany and Peru) coordinated the lecture times of their classes on cross-cultural competencies in such a way that after a few theoretical introduction sessions, classes were jointly taught through the use of videoconferences. Empirical evidence showed that the main achievements of the videoconferences were a better understanding of the other culture (including stereotypes) and awareness of differences in communication patterns, differences between low context and high context, and different value orientations in regards to monochromic and polychronic use of time. In contrast, the main challenges were technological and administrative in nature. Keywords: intercultural competence; cross-cultural competence; synchronous technology; virtual teams; internationalisation at home; mediated technology; Peru; Germany; teaching; e-learning; distance learning. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:wremsd:v:13:y:2017:i:5/6:p:635-646 Access Statistics for this article More articles in World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd |
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