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Cultural Competence Lessons For Engineering Students Working On Global Virtual Teams, Jennifer Alyce Alexander Apr 2012

Cultural Competence Lessons For Engineering Students Working On Global Virtual Teams, Jennifer Alyce Alexander

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With funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology at BYU has been furthering their research on Global Virtual Teams. After Cultural Competence lessons were implemented into the classroom setting in 2010, it was decided that teaching the lessons online asynchronously could have advantages in decreasing the time professors needed to cover the content in class. In 2011, Jennifer Alexander teamed with faculty involved with the NSF grant to design and develop online Cultural Competence lessons. Beginning in August 2011 students at BYU and other cooperating campuses participated in the online Cultural …