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Hope Torkornoo; Turgut Guvenli; Rajib Sanyal – Journal of Teaching in International Business, 2024
While the benefits of short-term study abroad programs are well documented, especially with respect to enhancing cross-cultural competency in the participants, fewer than one percent of college students in the U.S. benefit from this experience. The principal barriers to studying abroad are actual and opportunity costs and its perceived worth. An…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Cultural Awareness, Undergraduate Students, Institutional Cooperation
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Benjamin Ade-Thurow; Erik Jon Byker – Journal of Teacher Education and Educators, 2024
The purpose of this article is to describe and report on a Globally Networked Learning (GNL) course among students in Germany and the United States. Specifically, we examine how GNL is an innovative method for international virtual exchange, which contributes to meaningful intercultural communication through more equitable access to international…
Descriptors: Intercultural Programs, Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Undergraduate Students
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Nikolaos Misirlis – Journal of Teaching in International Business, 2023
This idea of global citizenship is particularly important for the next generation of leaders and thinkers. As students in business schools around the world prepare for their careers, they are targeting not just their local communities, but the seven billion potential customers who make up our global marketplace. In order to succeed in this…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Business Schools, International Schools, Global Approach
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Fondo, Marta; Jacobetty, Pedro – Research-publishing.net, 2019
This study analyses the results of two parallel two-month online exchange projects launched during the spring semester of 2018. The first project was a bilingual one-to-one English/Spanish exchange project for undergraduate business students. The second one was a monolingual one-to-many intercultural practice in English between native and…
Descriptors: Intercultural Programs, Student Exchange Programs, International Educational Exchange, 21st Century Skills
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Powell, Dorothy Lewis; Biederman, Donna J. – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2017
A U.S. and Chinese university developed a short-term student exchange program in public/community health. The program--which consisted of lectures, seminars, field trips, cross-cultural experiences, and a synthesis excursion--resulted in high levels of program satisfaction, increased intrapersonal awareness, and skill acquisition. Program content…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Public Health, Immersion Programs, Student Exchange Programs
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Abruquah, Emmanuel; Dosa, Ildiko; Duda, Grazyna – Research-publishing.net, 2016
This article discusses some practical ideas associated with a pilot intercultural telecollaboration project. The aim of the project was to connect students from five countries: Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Poland and Spain, and to make them interact using social media, such as Facebook, Skype, Google Hangouts, etc. There were success stories…
Descriptors: Barriers, Educational Opportunities, Intercultural Programs, Student Exchange Programs
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Müller-Hartmann, Andreas – Research-publishing.net, 2016
The concept of task has become central not only to an understanding of language learning per se, but also to the design and research of Online Intercultural Exchanges (OIEs). While research on the design of tasks in OIEs has been very productive, we still lack insights into how teachers develop competences in task design on the micro-level.…
Descriptors: Competency Based Teacher Education, Intercultural Programs, Intercultural Communication, Preservice Teachers