What is the intercultural virtual team project?
The model for this course involved once-a-week, face-to-face classroom meetings with students in each country and ongoing online team meetings for the collaborative work. This was the first time such an intercultural virtual course had been offered at SUNYIT, linking SUNYIT in Utica, New York, with Fachhochschule Hannover (FHH) in Hannover, Germany. During this semester-long course, students analyzed the business communication practices at enterprises with operations in both the US and in Germany. For the purposes of the final report, teams could choose either * to recommend the transfer of practices from one context to the other to improve efficiency and customer satisfaction. * to write an informative report comparing the two businesses for a market analyst or professional association that represents that industry. The genesis of the course Though I had used the SUNY Learning Network platform before to teach a technical communication course, I had never used CourseSpace, nor had I ev
