Gaining Cultural Intelligence through Second Life Learning Interventions

dc.creator	Sarah Ellin Siegel
dc.date	2010-08-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:12:36Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:12:36Z
dc.identifier	10.3991/ijac.v3i3.1351
dc.identifier	1867-5565
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/da02e88779204d4fa20f21117d2e1fe2
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/15352
dc.description	Companies’ investment in international assignments remains essential, but is affordable for only relatively few employees. In today’s global economy, many employees must gain cultural intelligence. Encyclopedic web sites and smart game simulations are ill-equipped to offer the live, authentic immersive experience of Virtual World environments; learning from colleagues who are country-natives through interacting with them in a Virtual World like Second Life is the next best thing to being there, and it requires no travel. Virtual world learning sessions with local ambassadors are affordable on a massive scale compared with international assignments. In addition, through Virtual World experiences, international assignees can be more effective with colleagues from their assigned countries prior to boarding planes, even prior to Day 1 of the assignment. This research proposal, including a literature review and a research design, asks, and begins to answer: What can cultural intelligence learning in Second Life achieve or advance that cultural intelligence learning in real-life within the cultures, smart game simulations and encyclopedic, self-service web sites cannot as readily?
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	kassel university press GmbH
dc.relation	http://online-journals.org/i-jac/article/view/1351
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1867-5565
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	International Journal of Advanced Corporate Learning (iJAC), Vol 3, Iss 3, Pp 45-50 (2010)
dc.subject	cultural
dc.subject	intelligence
dc.subject	life
dc.subject	virtual
dc.subject	world-based
dc.subject	learning
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Gaining Cultural Intelligence through Second Life Learning Interventions
dc.type	article