5. Tips to get started

Here you have some tips to consider 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-breaking 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.