ICT for Cooperative Communication
ICT for Cooperative Communication is an online course that combines communication theories, global leadership styles, and effective collaboration in virtual teams. It trains you how to master multicultural communication via the use of ICT. It is a platform that gives you the opportunity of forming virtual multicultural teams to exercise leadership and communication skills, in a real-time collaboration medium.
Students will come together to acknowledge differences and overcome obstacles of stereotypes and local habits, in an attempt to prove time and again that ICT is a way to bridge cultures.
Nowadays, the world is becoming smaller and smaller thanks to the use of the Internet and other virtual collaboration tools. Enterprises are extending their presence across continents, nations are realizing that they do not live alone, they share global issues. For instance, people are affected by the global financial situation, the environmental threats, and diseases transcend boarders and cultures.
Therefore, a more collaborative positive approach among nations is what can make or break the world that we live in. By learning the skills of non-prejudicial communication, and the know-how of effectively working virtually, you will have an edge over others in the global scene. Thus the importance of this course.
Course Aims
- Learn how to apply communication theory through ICT to build more tolerant nations
- Analyze the structures behind communication and how to become aware of faulty assumptions and inaccurate stereotypes
- Learn ways to utilize the differences among nations in order to tackle the world’s problems using ICT
- Develop non-violent communication skills to effectively communicate with other cultures
- Develop a global leadership style that can be utilized in a real world medium
- Prepare for a more connected world
- Learn how to build successful synergies
Course Goals
- Learn theories about how to counter different personalities. This new experience will require flexibility, teamwork and individual initiatives
- Display skills in utilizing emerging technologies for multicultural collaboration
- Develop skills in non-violent communication, as well as correct misconceptions and faulty generalizations.
- Design communication structures with others from different cultural backgrounds
- Become aware of conflict resolution practices
- Compress information to its essentials
- Handle negotiations that create agreements among people with different belief systems
- Give constructive feedback
- Initiate and continue an interesting conversation in a multicultural medium
- Learn the principles of attentive listening
- Learn how to use your differences to promote better working environments
The official course website is will be available on the 31st of October 2011 . For more information about the course, send an email to Maral Kalajian, kalajian@dsv.su.se
