diaLearn makes available various types of learning and training modules consisting of

• hypertext resources complemented by tasks
• summaries
• audio and video files
• glossary entries
• quotes
• recommended reading
• Internet links, and
• interactive exercises

diaLearn also offers an assignment tool for handing in assignments (including due-date and evaluation and feedback functions for the teacher), a complete messenger system to exchange messages as well as chats, forums, glossaries, quizzes, news and announcements, workshop tools, a learning diary (comparable to a weblog), a work documents tool, which enables the supply of learning material of all kinds, and a test tool.

As a result of its close connection to dialogin The Delta Intercultural Academy

• information on doing business and managing across cultures
• news and information of interest to interculturalists - events, conferences, courses
• links to research articles in the field
• links to websites of interest to interculturalists
• opportunities for communicating with people all over the world with similar professional interests through personal homepages, online messages, chat, a guest book and e-mail
• asynchronous forums to discuss intercultural management issues
• virtual education and training services for those who want to learn more about intercultural business and management communication

• students taking selected courses at Hochschule Konstanz

• potentially students and teachers at other universities (please get in touch with Peter Franklin
• potentially people in organisations wanting to learn about culture and communication in international business
  Peter Franklin.

It is free-of-charge for students enrolled at Hochschule Konstanz University of Applied Sciences. If you are interested in using our course materials and in becoming part of our learning community, please get in touch with the editor, Peter Franklin.

Hochschule Konstanz University of Applied Sciences, Germany.

Editorial and organisational work is headed by Prof. Peter Franklin, professor of Business English and Intercultural Business and Management Communication at Hochschule Konstanz. Technical support is provided by thinkhouse GmbH, which is also responsible for hosting.

Peter Franklin at Hochschule Konstanz University of Applied Sciences and Martin Pfaff at thinkhouse GmbH.