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Dear AIB Colleagues: Are you teaching IB, IM or a related course? X-Culture is the best way to add a real international business experience to your course. And we are accepting applications for the upcoming semester. X-Culture <http://www.x-culture.org/> is a partnership of 550+ IB professors from around the world. Not a company. We don’t want to sell anything to you. Just a partnership of IB colleagues. About *5,000* MBA and undergraduate students from *130* universities in *40* on *6* continents participate in X-Culture every semester (almost *40,000* have taken part in X-Culture so far). We put our students in global virtual teams (GVTs). About 7 per team, each in a different country. The students work on real-life international business challenges presented by real companies. Real cultural differences. Real time-zones. Real clients. No travel needed – all communication is online. The best students are then invited to X-Culture Symposium <http://x-culture.org/category/meetings/> where they meet their team members and top managers from the client company. X-Culture just won the *Wharton’s 2016 Re-Imagine Education Award* in the Nurturing Employability category. *WEBINAR:* If you just want to learn more, attend one of our Live Webinars where we explain in more detail how X-Culture works, who should participate, the task the students work on, our corporate partners, our data for researchers interested in publishing, and Q&A: http://x-culture.org/x-culture-project-introduction-webinar/ *Divisions: *Undergraduate and Master’s *Dates:* - 2017-2a: Approximate dates: August 20 – October 15, 2017 Application deadline: August 10, 2017 - 2017-2b: Approximate dates: October 1 – November 25, 2017 Application deadline: September 20, 2017 *More info:* How it works: www.x-culture.org Benefits for professors: http://x-culture.org/for-instructors/ Benefits for students: http://x-culture.org/for-students/ Benefits for businesses: http://x-culture.org/for-businesses/ A recent TEDx Talk about X-Culture: http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/Crowdsourcing-for-business-educ X-Culture is also an excellent *research* platform. We collect longitudinal multi-source multi-level multi-method data on GVTs (over 2,000 variables total). More on our ongoing research here <http://x-culture.org/for-researchers/ongoing-research-projects/>. *APPLY HERE TO JOIN X-CULTURE * <https://uncg.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_a4CxtDdoWK5DvaQ> Questions, suggestions: Dr. Vas Taras, [log in to unmask], 336-854-4102 ____ AIB-L is brought to you by the Academy of International Business. For information: http://aib.msu.edu/community/aib-l.asp To post message: [log in to unmask] For assistance: [log in to unmask] AIB-L is a moderated list.