Module 2: Digital Learning(Choose 2 Individual Homeworks for each Chapter (not Unit) and one Team Homework per Chapter Chapter 1
In your group, discuss your experience working virtually with classmates and colleagues from other cultures (Variation 1) and with classmates and colleagues from your own cultural background (Variation 2). Use the following criteria to create a comparison table showing which of these variants provides a better experience:
- Speed of making decisions;
- Feeling comfortable in the meetings;
- Quality of output.
Discuss the possible reasons for these differences on each criterion. Explain why these differences exist and use the lessons learned from the variation with the better experience to suggest practical ways optimizing
the variation with the less liked experience.
Output: PDF/doc/docx or similar document containing a comparison table; explanations for differences on each criterion; suggestion of practical ways to optimize the variation with the less liked experience
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Re-make the Eeva, Jasmina and Christian example presented here using different applications for the same tasks. At the end of the video, share your experience and provide some tips & tricks for your peers.
Output: short video
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Recommend, in an answer to this post, your favorite app for video editing. Present it shortly and motivate your choice.
Output: comment to this post
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Use one of the digital tools presented in Unit 1.3 (Digital Tool list) in an educational/team work context. Record and share your experience
Output: Short Video |
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Chapter 2
In your group, discuss your experience with e-learning. Select
at least
one advantage and one disadvantage presented in the course materials and
present them
extensively
from the perspective of your own experience. Discuss the possible reasons for the perception of advantages as disadvantages by some learners and vice versa.
Summarize your experience
in a post/podcast/short video.
Output: comment to this post/podcast/short video
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Present one experience you had with a E-Learning or Knowledge Sharing platform, in a “I was today years old when I learned…”.
Output: comment to this post (text or image)
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In your group, discuss the differences between E-Learning 1.0 and E-Learning 2.0. Compare them in a table. Present your thoughts about E-Learning 3.0 characteristics.
Output: PDF/doc/docx or similar document containing a comparison table and E-Learning 3.0 imagined characteristics
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In your group, discuss your experience with mobile learning. Identify the main limitations of using mobile devices for the learning process. Create a short video to present these limits and upload this video on the platform.
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Identify and describe one tool/game/practice of gamification used in the learning process. Using one of the tools create a game to present these tools/games/practices, their benefits, and associated risks. Output: short video, link to the proposed game |
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Chapter 3
Discuss in your team the difficulties you have experienced during online learning and the good practices developed to overcome this difficulty. Describe them in a comment to this post/podcast/short video.
Output: comment to this post/podcast/short video |
Carefully read the terms and conditions of use of one of your favorite mobile applications. Identify the personal data that the selected app collects, processes, communicates and stores. Analyze the use of personal data by the app and discuss your findings here.
Output: PDF/doc/docx or similar document |
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Present a current cybersecurity threat, identified using European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) publications (www.enisa.europa.eu/publications) or another trusty source. Identify: - the affected information resource,
- the modus operandi of the threat,
- threat actors,
- related protection measures.
Output: PPT/similar narrated presentation |
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Identify a fake news that circulated online in your country. Present: - the content of the news;
- the target group;
- the impact on the intended target group.
Output: PPT/similar narrated presentation |
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In your team, starting with the Cognitive Biases Codex described here, identify a cognitive bias that can impact learning processes. Discuss the impact and possible preventive measures in a podcast/presentation/post/short video. |
Design a Cybersecurity Toolkit, by entering the most important security measures to be used by a student. Present it as an infographic/animation/short video. Output: infographic/animation/post/short video |
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Module 1: Intercultural Competences(Choose 2 Individual Homeworks for each Unit and two from the Team Homeworks)
People are not only determined by their national culture, but also by social class, age, gender, company affiliation, etc. Which cultural groups do you feel you belong to? Give reasons for your statements. Were there times when you were particularly proud to be a member of one of the groups or were there painful experiences regarding one of the cultural groups?
Output: comment to this post or post a podcast or a short video |
To what extent are your own behavior patterns influenced by your values and world views, but also by the environment you live in?
Output: comment to this post or post a podcast or a short video |
Have you ever experienced a culture shock? How did it feel? Which strategies were useful to overcome this shock? Output: comment to this post or post a podcast or a short video |
We can define culture through metaphors. If you were to offer a metaphor to express the meaning of the notion of culture, what would it be? Explain why do you think your metaphor is appropriate. Output: comment to this post or post a podcast or a short video |
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Position yourself in four cultural dimensions presented in the E-Learning module. Explain why.
Output: comment to this post or post a podcast or a short video |
Did you ever met people who had different positions in the cultural dimensions? Give examples.
Output: comment to this post or post a podcast or a short video |
Did you ever had difficulties to cope with different positions in behavior or values of other persons? Output: comment to this post or post a podcast or a short video |
Enter the Hofstede dimensions presentation site (available here)and select your home country. Follow the detailed descriptions and notice the specific aspects of your own culture. Be aware that you may not fully identify with the features of national culture (described based on average values). How do you position yourself in relation to this? What are the areas where you notice differences? How integrated in your own culture do you feel? Output: comment to this post or post a podcast or a short video |
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Can you give an example where you feel that you personally reacted in an intercultural sensitive way, referring to the ethno-relative stage of cultural sensitivity?
Output: comment to this post or post a podcast or a short video |
Have you ever witnessed a situation where somebody acted in a very incompetent way in an intercultural setting?
Output: comment to this post or post a podcast or a short video |
Can you provide an example you witnessed where somebody used metacommunication as a tool to better understand a person of different cultural origin? Output: comment to this post or post a podcast or a short video |
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Think of a situation you experienced, where different verbal communication rules lead to misunderstandings or confusion. Describe the situation and try to explain why this miscommunication could occur.
Output: comment to this post or post a podcast or a short video |
Think of a situation you experienced, where different non-verbal communication rules lead to misunderstandings or confusion. Describe the situation and try to explain why this miscommunication could occur.
Output: comment to this post or post a podcast or a short video |
Did you experience different behaviors or rules on the campus during your exchange year? Output: comment to this post or post a podcast or a short video |
Following the landmarks in the table below, analyze your own communication style. Mention problems that may arise when communicating with people that have different communication styles. Have you encountered such situations? What were the consequences? Provide details.
| | | | | | Individual-centered: individual opinions, equality, lack of formalism | | | Based on implicit information shared by interlocutors, social status, hierarchical relationships, formalism | | | | Receiver-oriented, problem-focused | | | Transmitter-oriented, focused on building the relationship with the interlocutor | |
Note: Our communication style is not "pure". The classifications help us notice the differences more clearly, and based on them we can appreciate what characterizes us the most.
Output: comment to this post or post a podcast or a short video |
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Each one of you, characterize yourself in writing, specifying the national origin and your own presuppositions of a cultural nature, your own specificities. Then each one, write down the cultural presuppositions regarding those present in the team, as you perceive them. Present these lists / inventory notes of your own traits and those of other members, discuss them, comment on each one of them. Become aware of how you perceive yourself and the gap between your own perception and the perception of others. Make an inventory of the differences in perception found. (translated and adapted apud Bosche, Le management interculturel, 1993)
Output: Present your findings in form of a presentation or a short video |
Watch carefully the video based on the presentation called The art of choosing (available here) and describe the differences found regarding the cultures involved. Anticipate problems that may arise if you do not know the differences and collaborate with people from these countries on projects that would involve decision-making. Imagine as many problematic scenarios as possible! What would be the consequences? How important is knowledge of other assumptions in intercultural communication?
Output: Present your findings in form of a presentation or a short video |
Based on the cultural dimensions provided by Edward T. Hall, make a comparison regarding the intercultural communication between your own culture and that of your teammates. Highlight some methods of improving intercultural communication based on the problems that may arise between you (wrong decoding of the verbal / nonverbal message, prejudices and stereotypes, the tendency to evaluate according to your own "grid", anxiety about the "new", etc.).
You have the following table as a support:
Dominant characteristics associated with cultural communication styles
| Explicit communication - "poor context" | Implicit communication - "rich context" | | - precision, logic, analysis, focus on goals, achievement goal orientation, words; | - ambiguity, feeling, synthesis, focus on relationships, orientation on compliance with protocol and objectives; | | - a finality in itself, should not evolve, short-term perspective; | - a beginning of the relationship, can evolve together with the relationship, long-term perspective; | | - egalitarian, focused on expertise and facts; | - hierarchical, focused on status and group relationships; | | | | The relationship with the rules | - universalism, legal resolution of conflicts; | - particularism, problem solving through compromise and mediation; | The relationship with time | - strictly economic, time shortage, monochronism; | - time does not only mean money, abundance of time, polychronism; | | | |
Source: translated and adaptated apud Prime, Usunier, Marketing international : Développement des marchés et management multiculturel, 2004
Output: Present your findings in form of a presentation or a short video |
Enter the Hofstede dimensions presentation site (available here)and select your home country. Follow the detailed descriptions and notice the specific aspects of your own culture. Be aware that you may not fully identify with the features of national culture (described based on average values). How do you position yourself in relation to this? What are the areas where you notice differences? How integrated in your own culture do you feel? Output: Present your findings in form of a presentation or a short video |
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