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Online Course on Developing STEM Lecturers' Communication Competence for Training International Students

STEM lecturers' communication competence is an important part of their professional competence that includes three interconnected components: communicative, interactive and perceptive ones. Each component is represented by integrative skills that must be used in complex to achieve educational goals in training international students. However, STEM lecturers do not use the skills integrally. So, the purpose of the article is to introduce an online course to develop STEM lecturers' professional communication competence for training international students. To make an online course focused on STEM lecturers' weak points in professional communication, we specified them by a needs analysis, a questionnaire and an interview. The results of the research show that STEM lecturers want to learn more about peculiarities of intercultural communication and how to use them efficiently for training international students. These findings enabled us to present an online course “STEM lecturers' communication skills for training international students”.