Learning by doing: English as a Lingua Franca and intercultural competence in an online simulation game - Einzelansicht

Note: This extra course offering is part of the research project ‘Digital Communities and Online Intercultural Competence’ headed by Dr. Milene Mendes de Oliveira and funded by the German-Ministry of Education and Research. Interactions happening throughout the course, and especially the game sessions, will be recorded for research purposes. A term of informed consent, which ensures compliance with ethical and data-protection measures for research data, will be given to participants. Moreover, technical conditions for participating in the course involve stable internet connection, a microphone, and a camera as well as the willingness to sign up for a few (free) online tools, such as conceptboard and Trello.

There are only 10 vacancies in this course. Fully online course with synchronous and asynchronous activities (an international collaboration between the University of Potsdam and Oulu University, Finland)

Part 1: Introductory sessions and tasks

Asynchronous tasks from October 26 to November 2 on Moodle

Synchronous sessions:

October 26 (Tuesday): 10-12

October 28 (Thursday): 10-12

November 2 (Tuesday): 10-12

Part 2: Game sessions (synchronous sessions with Oulu students)

November 4 (Thursday): 11-13 (German time)

November 11 (Thursday): 11-13 (German time)

November 18 (Thursday): 11-13 (German time)

November 25 (Thursday): 11-13 (German time)

December 2 (Thursday): 11-13 (German time)