DEVELOPING A TRAINING PROGRAMME FOR INTERCUITURAL LEARNING ON THE WEB - EXPERIENCES AND CHALLENGES

摘要

Intercultural Learning in the Internet ― "IntCultNet" ― is a research and development project in which a combination of multilingual, culture-sensitive content and service product is being developed jointly by 5 European countries: Finland, Yugoslavia, Czech Republic, Greece and United Kingdom. Experts from Asia (Vietnam) and the Middle East (Israel) are being involved to enhance global dimension. The project aims at developing a training programme and resources for learning intercultural competence in a web-based learning environment. The consortium has prepared the project for over one year and implemented a pilot training course with Finnish and Yugoslavian students, using incentive materials and interactive assignments built into a web environment. The project is going to be launched in the autumn 2002. Among the outcomes will be increase in the cultural competence of teachers, tutors and diversified special target groups like personnel of enterprises, minorities, disabled, immigrants etc, and promote access to best practise new methods and educational resources.