The joint project “Open Education Resources (OER)-Portal Niedersachsen — Development of micro-interventions for teaching to promote intercultural and diversity competence of students” involves the Department of Work and Organizational Psychology, with a focus on intercultural business psychology at Osnabrück University and Business Psychology at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences.
The aim of the project is to develop scientifically sound micro-interventions to promote intercultural and diversity skills as OER for university teaching. By micro-interventions we mean short training sequences consisting of an Educast and interactive training elements to promote exchange, learning and self-reflection.
In the preparatory phase, a common didactic and scientifically sound basis has been developed since February 2021, with the involvement of the Center for Digital Teaching and the LehrKolleg at the University of Osnabrück.
In the conception phase, educasts on culture and cultural dimensions as well as lay and expert interviews on the topic of facets of diversity have been developed and filmed since April 2021. At the same time, the supplementary training formats are being compiled into immersive, short, interactive and transfer-oriented micro-interventions (e.g. quizzes, case studies, reflection exercises, group discussions, learning control questions).
In the evaluation phase, some micro-interventions will be tested and evaluated with different target groups from September 2021. The results will be used to adapt the micro-interventions before they are made available university-wide and on twillo from 2022. Initial interim results will be presented at the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology conference at the end of July 2021. Further conference participations (e.g. European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology) are in preparation.
People involved in the project
University of Osnabrück
The university team consists of Prof. Karsten Müller, Dr. Svenja Schumacher, M.Sc. Marina Schefer and four student assistants.
Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences
The university team consists of Prof. Petia Genkova and M.Sc. Marisa Neul.
This article by Marina Schefer, Marisa Neul, Svenja Schumacher, Petia Genkova & Karsten Müller is — unless otherwise stated in individual content — licensed under CC BY-NC-ND (4.0)