Welcome to COIL

The Office of International Programs (OIP) and the Office of Learning Environments (OLE) at SUNY System Administration have joined with Purchase College to create the SUNY Center for Collaborative Online International Learning. The mission of this center is to develop more on-line courses with an international dimension throughout SUNY. We will work with faculty on all campuses to develop courses that will be team taught with an international partner, and which will enroll students both from SUNY campuses and from institutions abroad. It is hoped that this site will be a source of information for those who are interested in developing such courses and that it will also be a place where questions can be raised and where we can all learn from each other.

COIL:  From the Latin Colligere and the Medieval French Coillir: "To Gather Together" 

The Course Exchange

Here you will find proposed courses from SUNY Faculty
and from
Faculty Abroad seeking academic partners.

 

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October 19 - COIL Conference PDF Print E-mail

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August - Distance Learning Summer School - Crimea, Ukraine PDF Print E-mail

Engagement -> Cooperation -> Collaboration -> Partnership? 
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View Towards Mali Mayak, site of Distance Learning Summer School

Following upon a March meeting in Albany with an educational delegation from the Ukraine, a summer school in distance learning was established near Yalta for late July. Molly Mott of SUNY/Canton and Jon Rubin of the COIL Center joined with organizer Svetlana Shmelova to engage 17 faculty members and administrators from the Ukraine in a discussion of current methodologies and paths towards possible collaboration. It took some time for us all to adapt to temperatures hovering just under 100 fahrenheit degrees every day, but the sea was nearby and we met together productively for almost two weeks, and it our hope that another school might take place again next year.

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Molly Mott in Class

SUNY/Canton provided a Blackboard shell in which we could work and participants used the discussion board as a tool for sharing ideas while...

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June 26 - Virtual University Conference, Warsaw PDF Print E-mail

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The Problem with "Collaboration"

Sometimes we take for granted the meaning of a word we use often and don't realize it may have a different meaning for others. Last week I presented the COIL Center to a plenary session of the Virtual University Conference at Warsaw University. After I spoke and was prepared to answer questions about what I had just presented, an audience member asked why we included the word "Collaboration" in our Center's name? Before I could answer, he stated how negatively this word reads in Eastern Europe given the hated role that "Collaborators" have played in the history of that region. I'm not convinced that we need to formally change our name because of this interpretation, but this interaction does make clear how history and culture shape meaning. And as most people simply know us as: "The COIL Center," anyone who is uncomfortable with "Collaboration" should feel free to read the "C" as indicating "Cooperative," in keeping with the intended meaning of our name.
 
Upbringing 
Another unexpected aspect of this three-day conference was the focus on student "upbringing" or student socialization, and concerns about...
 
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