Training

4.3 Consolidaton and intensification

4.3.1 Reflect

For making the most of your COIL activities, try to answer the following questions:

  • Can I select one of my own courses/ modules that would benefit from a COIL project?
  • Can I identify the learning outcome(s) that could benefit from international teamwork, as well as the partner’s core study area?
  • Can I describe how would I embed the development of intercultural competence into the course syllabus?
  • Can I outline of the main activities of the COIL project, considering the facilitation, interaction, monitoring, and reflexion phases?
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4.3.2 Takeaways

Here you have some takeaways for organising COIL that may also serve as tips to get started:

  • Identify potential COIL partners from your personal (or research) network, given that these relationships will be the easiest to build upon. Consider your visiting faculty from abroad;
  • Schedule synchronous interaction between teachers and between students, over a sustained period of time, to support and promote more effective asynchronous communication;
  • Organise an ice-breaker session so that participants start interacting and everyone is on the same page;
  • Resort to a diversified set of assessment tools and methods to ensure participants reach the learning outcomes;
  • Intertwine in-person and online activities to monitor and enhance the participants’ experience.
4.3.3 Dig deeper

Here you have some sources for further digging into the issue of COIL:

Balula, A. (2022). Drifts of Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) towards pedagogical innovation: A foretelling bibliometric analysis. In A. Reis, J. Barroso, P. Martins, A. Jimoyiannis, R.Y.-M. Huang, & R. Henriques (Eds). Technology and Innovation in Learning, Teaching and Education. TECH-EDU 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1720. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22918-3_32

Collaboratory (2019). Virtual exchange toolkit. The Collaboratory | Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs U.S. Department of State. Retrieved from https://state-low.app.box.com/v/VirtualExchangeToolkit (18 April 2023).

University of Aveiro (2020). COIL@UA. Retrieved from https://www.ua.pt/en/inovacaopedagogica/coil (18 April 2023).

SUNNY COIL Center (n.d.). Faculty Guide for Collaborative Online International Learning. Course Development. Retrieved from http://www.ufic.ufl.edu/UAP/Forms/COIL_guide.pdf (18 April 2023).

Swartz, S., Barbosa, B., & Crawford, I. (2020). Building intercultural competence through virtual team collaboration across global classrooms. Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 83(1), 57-79. https://doi.org/10.1177/2329490619878834

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