Best Practice in the Development of an international real estate education programme

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Best Practice in the Development of an
international real estate education programme
Overcoming intercultural problems in student teams
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Hanze University Of Applied Sciences in
Groningen

• INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
• DEPARTMENT OF REAL ESTATE MANAGEMENT

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InternationaI Semester
Project The European Challenge

• Project centred Education
• Active Learning
• Courses and training sessions
• Complex Real Estate Problem
• Multicultural Setting
• Learning Outcomes

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Learning Outcomes

• enable the student to act successfully in an
  international context as a real estate
  professional.
• enable the student to develop tailor-made real
  estate advice for an organization, which leads to
  a real and lasting solution.

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Problems

• Intercultural Differences
• learning styles
• attitude
• experiences
• expectations

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How to deal with the problems?

• Evaluations
• at regular intervals
• managing expectations
• discussing the problems within the teams
• before the start of the study programme
• during the programme
• at the end of the programme
• Follow up actions

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Concrete examples

• Different grading systems
• Team work experience
• Student expectations

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Conclusions

• Intercultural Difficulties experienced by all
  students
• Managing expectations
• Importance of evaluating the process
• Focus on communication

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Questions??