1.2 How to use the trainer manual

This manual is organised into three chapters. This first chapter is devoted to some background information whereas the second chapter provides readers with an overview of didactic methods and approaches. The third chapter encompasses supplementary teaching and training materials, which mirror the structure of the online learning sessions. The online sessions are titled as follows:

1. Virtual teamwork in my work environment
2. Culture and interculturality, a plea for an open and dynamic approach
3. Developing from a group into a virtual team
4. Roles and role expectations
5. Creating mutuality in intercultural and interdisciplinary virtual teams
6. Key challenges of virtual intercultural teams
7. Negotiating an e-culture for virtual teams
8. My competences for working in a virtual intercultural team