The research presents a comparative analysis and assessment of intercultural communication of networked communities in Nepal and Puerto Rico.

Sweta Baniya (2023). Strengthening intercultural communication in disaster response: Lessons from Nepal earthquake and Hurricane Maria | Seed Grant 2019. (Version 2.0). https://hubicl.org/publications/123/2

From the abstract: "This paper begins by tracing the role of the Discussion Method within the liberal arts tradition, and by extension the Confucian tradition. Second, this paper examines how the Discussion Method lost its value in higher education as a consequence of the employability problem...Third, this paper reframes the purpose of the Discussion Method in an integrated curriculum for preparing students to achieve personal and professional success..."

Ying, J. (2020). The Importance of the Discussion Method in the Undergraduate Business Classroom. Humanistic Management Journal, 5, 251–278. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41463-020-00099-2

From the abstract: "A revised rubric was created from the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AACU) Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education (VALUE) rubrics on Intercultural knowledge, Information literacy, and Creative thinking. Students completed self-assessments at the beginning and end of the course."

Koh-Knox Sharp, C. P., Shepler, B.M., & Jaiswal A. (2024, January 3). Assessing learning gains of pharmacy students in communications, ways of thinking, and intercultural skills through self-assessment. Currents in Pharmacy Teaching & Learning.

Jaiswal, A., Karabiyik, T., Jin, L., & Acheson-Clair. K. (2023). Enhancing team communication skills via Portable Intercultural Module in a systems thinking class. 130th American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference.

From the abstract: "In this paper, [the authors] discuss the point of view of three instructors who teach the integrated courses in the first-year program at Purdue University. The first-year integrated program launched by Polytechnic Institute...combines three departments: English, Communication, and Technology. The instructors representing these departments teach technology students about Design Thinking, Composition, and Communication, thereby providing students an opportunity for designing and developing multimodal compositions geared towards solving global issues via interdisciplinary interactions."

Baniya, S., Mentzer, N., Laux, D., Holtan, A., Farrington, S., Eden, C., & Zhang, L. (2019, October). Creating interdisciplinary collaborative teaching/learning praxis with design thinking, communication, and composition. In Proceedings of the 37th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication (p. 5). ACM.