GlobalCollaborative Online International Learning is an innovative way for your students to engage in dialogue with their peers around the world.
By developing a COIL module for your course, you can help students extend their perspective on challenges that reach beyond our borders. COILed courses focus on creating student-to-student interactions and the opportunities to learn together with those who have perspectives different from our own.
Typically COIL projects involve the co-development of a course module by two or more instructors from different countries, each of whom recognize that a valuable kind of learning occurs when students from different parts of the world work together on a common area of focus.
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The nature of the collaboration can take many forms. These projects can vary in length and format, from semester length projects to projects lasting only a few weeks, and from synchronous to asynchronous. Often instruction prepares students for collaborative group projects, and they most often involve synchronous meetings.
COIL courses often embrace the use of digital technology to bridge the distance that separates countries and partners. Forms of interaction include online discussion groups, videoconferences, class to class meetings, and online workgroup projects.
Spring 2024 Infosessions
This semester, we have run several infosessions to help introduce faculty to the process of developing COIL modules. Please consider joining the remaining sessions to explore these systemwide professional development opportunities, to hear about successful examples of COIL projects, and to find out how you can find an international partner. In the form linked below, you can choose between virtual sessions delivered over zoom or in-person sessions offered on most of the system campuses:
Zoom Session:
Thursday, March 28, 3:00 - 3:30pm, Zoom
In-person Session:
Thursday, March 14, 11 - 11:45am, UM Crookston, Room Bede A&B
Register here and a Zoom link will be sent to you. Updated info on room location will be provided via email.
Spring 2024 Partnership Fairs
In spring 2024, we will offer two partnership fairs:
Aurora Global COIL Fair on Sustainability, online (see aurora-universities.eu for more on Aurora partners) April 23, 8 AM - 9:30, and
Global COIL Partnership Fair, April 30 at 9 AM - 10:30 AM.
At these events you will be able to meet with potential COIL partners at institutions around the world. Register here: https://forms.gle/F9iLvJ1f62vmeReY6
Where to find a partner?
Interested in exploring potential COIL partners around the world? We are proud partners with COIL Connect (coilconnect.org) , which offers a list of active faculty and universities pursuing COIL development:
