A new MOOC – Competences for Global Collaboration – is due to start on April 22nd. This has been designed by my colleagues from the University of Applied Sciences in Graz, Austria.
This is a 6 week MOOC – covering the following topics:
Week 1: Communication across borders: Introduction and warm-up (Facilitators: Rupert Beinhauer, Jutta Pauschenwein; Visiting Speaker: Heinz Wittenbrink,)
Week 2: Legal cultures (Facilitator: Doris Kiendl-Wendner)
Week 3: Doing Business in Emergent Markets (Facilitator: Thomas Schmalzer; Visiting Speaker: Vito Bobek)
Week 4: Relationships & Networks in Business to Business Marketing (Facilitator: Denny Seiger; Visiting Speaker: Rahul Singh)
Week 5: International communication and negotiation (Facilitator: Gudrun Reimerth; Visiting Speaker: Maryam Bigdeli)
Week 6: Transfer into individual contexts (Facilitators: Maja Pivec, Jutta Pauschenwein)
The pedagogy of this MOOC has been very carefully thought through and articulated on the MOOC website, where a series of blog posts have outlined the course team’s thinking since they started to build their website in February of this year.
More than 300 people have already signed up for this MOOC. The topic seems particularly important for learning in a digital age. As Charles Darwin is thought to have said:
Jenny Connected 