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A dynamic, web-based methodology for developing intercultural understanding

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ICIC '10: Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Intercultural collaboration

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1841853.1841861

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This paper describes a pedagogical project that was designed at MIT in 1997 and that has been taking place every year since then, connecting American and French language students for the purpose of helping them develop intercultural understanding. It centers on the dynamic process that allows students to gradually and collaboratively construct, through a series of stages, an in-depth understanding of each other's cultures. It ends with some reflections on the challenges brought by the use of web-based communication tools as well as the pedagogical impact they inherently have on the ways students develop intercultural understanding.

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ICIC '10: Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Intercultural collaboration

August 2010

300 pages

ISBN:9781450301084

DOI:10.1145/1841853

General Chairs:
Pamela Hinds
Stanford University, USA
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Anne-Marie Søderberg
Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
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Ravi Vatrapu
Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
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Toru Ishida
Kyoto University, Japan
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Martha Maznevski
International Institute for Management Development (IMD), Switzerland
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Gary Olson
University of California-Irvine, USA

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