【资讯】上外开设的跨文化慕课 Online Learning towards IC Competence
MOOC
2020
10th MOOC Run
SISU IC Institute
This time of adhering to the wisely recommended measures to contain the spread of the Corona virus provides a unique opportunity to advance and access online education. Since 2015, SISU and FutureLearn have partnered to offer the “Intercultural Course” twice a year. To serve those needing online resources for their course planning during this time, we are offering the 10th run from the start of this new term.
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/intercultural-communication/10
Our latest course launches internationally on March 2, 2020! We hope this helps all who want to learn with us, whether you incorporate it at the beginning of this term or later. We’ll keep the course open up to July in case you want to use it in the middle or towards the end of this semester. But do keep in mind that FREE access to the course continues for just 7 weeks from the time that you or your students enroll (plan your enrollment start accordingly).
Course Contents and Suggestions for Use
If you have visited the course before, you know that it offers a “learning step” design, easy to incorporate into your class lessons. The 15 or so steps included in each week usually take leaners about 4 hours to complete. But we encourage students to spend more time to read the many comments posted and make their own, enriching social learning on each step.
Each week’s content begins with several introductory steps, awareness-awakening videos or articles on IC constructs, learning activities, relevant case studies, questions for response and reflection, and weekly review steps. The five topics included in this IC course include:
WEEK 1
Comprehending Intercultural Communication
We introduce the course topic via definitions, metaphors, explanatory articles, an applied case and invite participants to reflect on possible sources of culture differences. Topics include:
Outlining Learning Objectives
Sharing Cultural Highlights
Defining Intercultural Communication
Exploring IC Metaphors (“Fish out of Water,” “Cultural Baggage”)
Accounting for Subjective Culture
Considering an Intercultural Incident (Case Study Learning)
Highlighting Goals of Intercultural Learning
Considering Degrees of Interculturalness
WEEK 2
Contextualizing
Cultural Identities
We provide ways to get to know others by focusing on cultural identity and begin to adjust our perceptions of and communications with each other. Topics include:
Exploring “Who am I?” and “Who are You?”
Listing your Identities
Understanding Levels of Identity in Interaction
Identifying Differences in Interaction
Understanding Social Identity Theory
Representing Identity (Onion levels, Perception, Descriptions)
Responding to Diverse Identities
Describing Identities in “Your Cultural Story” and Learning from Others’ Stories
WEEK 3
Comparing Cultural Communication Styles
We introduce taxonomies that describe how ways of interaction vary across cultures, helping you notice differences in how social contexts, personality, space, and time might be perceived. Topics include:
Considering Communication and Context
Linking Culture and Communication
Adjusting High- and Low-Context Styles
Introducing Time and Space
Observing Cultural Communication Styles
Reporting Proxemic Observations
Considering the Nature of Silence
Introducing Monochronic and Polychronic Time
Understanding Mindfulness
Considering Your Time Planning, Scheduling
WEEK 4
Clarifying and Contrasting Values
We explore how values often underlie deeper cultural differences, examine ways to contrast variations of values, and consider how they help us analyze cross-cultural misunderstandings. Topics include:
Defining Values
Exploring Your Values
Introducing IC Values Studies
Describing Your Culture- and Individual-Level Values
Debriefing Value Expectations
Studying Values: History and Concepts
Considering Values Frameworks
Dimensionalizing Individualism, Power, and Time
Understanding Individualism and Collectivism
Speaking Cross-culturally
WEEK 5
Cultivating Intercultural Adaptation
We show how adaptation processes underlie all culture learning and interaction, and how engaging in the culture shock, stress, and adjustment process helps develop intercultural competence. Topics include:
Introducing Culture Shock and Adaption
Experiencing Situational Culture Shock
Explaining and Understanding Culture Shock
Learning from Culture Shock Experiences
Engaging in Intercultural Adaptation Processes
Going through Waves of Cultural Adaptation
Coming Back to Re-Entry Shock
Creatively Expressing Adaptation towards ICC
Adopting Strategies for Personal Development
Reflecting Questions to Evaluate your IC Progress
History &
Status
SISU and FutureLearn have been partnering in online education since signing a cooperative agreement in 2014. The SISU “Intercultural Course,” launched in November of 2015 was China’s first course on the FutureLearn platform.
● Stats
SISU Intercultural Course
Enrolled
54,000
Countries
200+
Engagement
30,000+
Comments
6,500-22,800
As of 2020.02.19
54,000 have enrolled from 200+ countries and regions in the previous 9 runs and 30,000+ have engaged in the learning steps (each run so far generating from 6,500-22,800 rich text comments)!
Besides providing helpful foundational contents on the subject of IC, the course encourages active learning with others and responses from each to indicate what they “like,” make comments, offer replies to other learners (to engage in social learning), and provide reflective learning summaries. You and your students can benefit greatly from seeing the thousands of comments offered by learners from this wide variety of ages, educational, work, and travel experiences, as well as the diverse national and cultural backgrounds. Please enroll and engage in this active intercultural learning experience! To get started just copy this link:
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/intercultural-communication/10
Contact Us
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