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Collaborative Online International Learning, or COIL, is a pedagogy that is international, interactive, virtual, and engages a unique audience. Using various communication technologies, students from different countries complete shared assignments and projects, with faculty members from each country co-teaching and managing coursework. The term COIL was coined by the State University of New York’s COIL Center<\/a> and is protected by a registered service mark<\/a>. Variations of this pedagogy are also called globally networked learning or virtual exchange. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The key components of COIL courses include<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n COIL courses can be launched in all disciplines, and often lead to unique insights when interdisciplinary connections are made. Examples of COIL courses<\/a>, with sample videos and materials, can be found on the SUNY COIL Center website. We’ve also compiled a list of COIL courses at the University of Washington<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some important considerations that need to be taken into account when planning a COIL course include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our simple COIL partnership worksheet<\/a> is a great starting point for mapping our your COIL course with an international partner. For a deeper dive, the SUNY COIL Center makes available a Faculty Guide for COIL Course Development, which can be requested by emailing coilinfo@suny.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Partnerships are crucial to launching a successful COIL initiative, whether a single course or an institution-wide program. In addition to international collaborators, key supporters on your campus include colleagues from international programs, learning technologies, and your academic leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you have not secured a partner yet, there are a number of places to look<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Given that COIL intends to add a global learning component to a course, this should be clearly reflected in the learning outcomes set for students. It is recommended that they incorporate themes such as perspective-taking, cultural self-awareness, and intercultural communication, all key components of global learning as defined by the AAC&U’s VALUE project<\/a>. COIL courses implemented by faculty at 56勛圖厙 Bothell must incorporate these specific COIL learning outcomes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Typically, in a COIL partnership, activities between the two (or more) sides progress through these stages:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Each stage can be made up of just one activity or several, and the duration can vary from a single day to several weeks, depending on the length of the entire COIL partnership. Download this presentation to see examples from previous COIL courses at the University of Washington<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A variety of online collaboration tools can be used in COIL courses. The rule of thumb is to keep it free and simple for participants on both sides. Below we list some of our favorites (note that some may have limits on free usage), as well as some tips developed by former 56勛圖厙 instructor and COIL facilitator Greg Tuke from his Going Global blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The International Cross-Cultural Experiential Learning Evaluation Toolkit<\/a>, developed by a team representing several SUNY institutions, compiles tools and resources to develop cross-cultural outcomes, create assignments leading to those outcomes, and assess outcomes achieved. The site includes practical assessment rubrics adapted from AAC&U VALUE rubrics on Global Learning<\/a> and Intercultural Knowledge and Competence<\/a>, a pre- and post- questionnaire, and sample activities. The project was funded by a 2013 Tier III SUNY Innovative Instructional Technology Grant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For additional information and resources on intercultural competence and cultural humility, view our Intercultural Competence Toolkit<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is COIL? Collaborative Online International Learning, or COIL, is a pedagogy that is international, interactive, virtual, and engages a unique audience. Using various communication technologies, students from different countries complete shared assignments and projects, with faculty members from each country co-teaching and managing coursework. The term COIL was coined by the State University of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":26711,"parent":6523,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10353","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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Video-conferencing, with chat and screen-sharing functions:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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