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Guest Blogger: Taylor Smith My experience with the X-Culture project definitely has a positive note. There were some glitches along the way, but my team made sure to make them work. At first I was very nervous to meet my team. I get very nervous meeting people for the first time, and I had some reservations with using Skype or…

Guest Blogger: Taylor Smith At this point in the project it has become very clear to me that I am very lucky to have the group that I have been placed with. Though the group has gone from six members to now 4, we all get along very well. It is also nice because we are split up into only…

Dr. Catherine Cook and Dr. Christian Sonnenberg’s paper, Technology and Online education: Models for Change, was recognized as the “Best Paper” when presented by Dr. Catherine Cook at the 2014 American Society of Business and Behavorial Sciences conference in March 2014.  This paper contends that the various technology changes have advanced online education.  A number of mobile computing and transformative technologies are examined and…

By: Dr. Joan Wiggenhorn Four FIT students were honored on April 10, 2014 at the Financial Executives International Academic Night. Three students, Ernestas Zarskis, Gwendolyn Kauffmann, and Vernon Mugabe Kihuguru won scholarships and Brian Kryszczynski won an award for the FEI Distinguished Scholar Program. Students that attended the Financial Executives International Academic Night enjoyed an excellent opportunity to network with…

Guest Blogger: Joseph Barber This third and final blog concludes the X-Culture project I have been working on with my teammates from across the world over the course of this semester, as a part of Dr. Muth’s brilliant & stimulating International Business class. My teammates and I cut it close to the deadline when handing in our Final Report, but…

Guest Blogger: Motunrayo Hambolu I was assigned to group 10 and my teammates varied from India, Thailand, Mexico, and two students from the United States; one from Florida International University and the other from Eastern Washington University. At first I remember thinking that the project will be easy! I was excited to start the project because I love getting to know…

Guest Blogger: Robert Gilbreth Now that X-Culture is over I’m left with a sense of relief that I no longer have to fit in another commitment into my busy life.  My sentiments are bitter sweet now that my time with the X-Culture project has come to an end.    At this point I cannot really put a finger on whether or not…

Guest Blogger: Benjamin Blach The X-Culture project is over, and I feel that I have learned from this experience. My team started the project very well. We communicated several times a week to go over our project and learn about each other. Over the duration of the assignment, people started to stop communicating to the group. The girl from India…

Guest Blog: Keshakumari Patel I am a student of Business Administration; I got a chance to work on X- Culture project in my International Business class. Virtual project that involved people around the world, and in my team, I had seven people from different colleges around the world. However, I was bit nervous in the beginning about this project, but it…

Guest Blogger: Mason Cook In the end I really appreciated and enjoyed most of this assignment. This was way more interesting than just splitting the class in groups and then meeting the night before the assignment is due in the library to split duties and then leave to do it on your own, like most classes do. X-Culture was very…