COIL Activities

  • Welcome to our New Website and a COIL Institute Update
    11 Nov 2011 - 13:35
    by jonrubin
    COIL Institute Workshop

    This fall has been a very busy and exciting time for COIL. During September and October we held five, three-day workshops as part of our COIL Institute for Globally Networked Learning in the Humanities. Attending each workshop were teams from three to six American universities with their international university partners. Each workshop had its own disciplinary focus: Human Societies; Media Arts and Culture; International Studies; Language and Literature; or Freshman Foundations. Following upon the workshops each Institute team has engaged a course development training course in Moodle and all the Institute teams intend to offer globally networked courses in 2012. This has also been a great learning experience for the COIL team and will prepare us for a new level of support to SUNY and non-SUNY campuses in 2012.

    New COIL Website

    And as you may have already noticed, you are right now viewing COIL's new, work-in-progress web site. We had been planning to build this site out as a social enterprise website during the latter weeks of 2011 and into 2012, but issues developed with our prior site that made it encumbent for us to move more quickly. We have so far only imported content from our previous site, but over the next months we plan to provide many new ways in which to share information amongst those interested in globally networked learning.

    Welcome!

  • Institutions Accepted to the COIL Institute for Globally Networked Learning in the Humanities
    26 May 2011 - 23:00
    by admin

    The COIL Institute received 40 institutional applications from colleges and universities all across the United States. Our selection panels reviewed each application carefully and selected 22 institutional teams of faculty, instructional designers, and international programs staff who will work together for the next two years as Institute Fellows. They are joined in the Institute by faculty and staff from 29 international partner institutions from 21 countries across all of the world's continents except Antarctica. Each of the Institute's participants has made a two-year commitment to actively participate in:

    • An ongoing online Institute Commons where they can network and share experiences throughout the two-year Institute with other Institute Fellows and staff
    • A 3-day discipline-specific workshop at the SUNY Global Center in NYC (Sept. - Oct. 2011)
    • A follow-up 8-week online course on globally networked learning (Oct. 2011 - Jan. 2012)
    • Teaching and/or supporting a globally networked course(s) involving partner institutions and students in at least two countries (Jan. - Dec. 2012)
    • A 2-day Capstone Conference in NYC where lessons learned during the Institute will be shared and disseminated through an Institute publication (Jan. - June 2013) 

    Click here to see the lists of participating institutions in the Institute.

  • COIL Center Featured in Chronicle of Higher Education
    26 Apr 2011 - 23:00
    by admin

    The SUNY COIL Center and the recent 3rd COIL Conference are the subject of a feature story in the Chronicle of Higher Education this week. The history of COIL is also highlighted along with our upcoming COIL Institute for Globally Networked Learning in the Humanities. The article is one of the lead stories on the global pages of the Chronicle website and can be accessed here.