COIL Activities

Friday, November 12th 2010.

For the first time, representatives from all seven Nodal Network campuses (Purchase; Ulster; Binghamton; Delhi; Cortland; New Paltz and Cobleskill) convened at COIL's new home, the SUNY Global Center in Midtown Manhattan, to discuss plans for the upcoming year. The meeting included a range of discussions of new and existing initiatives around SUNY including a presentation on the Levin Institute's New York In The World project by Rebecca Smolar (seen above) and a discussion of COIL's planned participation in Levin's Global Workforce Project.

Also during the meeting, Prof. Rubin, COIL's director, announced a new Nodal Network Faculty Development Grant to help faculty at these campuses build COIL courses in one of three modalities: two week online lectures/presentations linked to shared student reflections; 3-6 course modules; and 7 week or more full course. 

For more information about the COIL Nodal Network click here.

September 28th, 2010.

On November 3rd, 2010, COIL's  Jon Rubin, Melanie Wilson and Tony Lemieux (virtually) will be delivering a pre-conference workshop at the 16th annual SLOAN-C conference in Orlando, Florida. The workshop titled Developing Collaborative Online International Courses will be using the COIL Faculty Guide for Collaborative Online International Learning Course Development as a tool to discuss key issues when collaborating across borders and develop course content.

In this workshop participants will explore the dynamics of establishing and running globally networked courses, in which university classrooms in different countries are linked together, with students collaborating cross-culturally in online project work. To facilitate this workshop the new Faculty Guide for Collaborative Online International Course Development will be used to reinforce the concepts raised during the session. We invite faculty and instructional design staff to this workshop to participate together and jointly explore the dynamics of this format of course development. We seek participants who have an active interest in developing online international courses, who might have begun to conceptualize such a course or who may already have an international partner with whom they want to work. However, within the workshop we will discuss partnering and course development, so those who are just now thinking about this modality are also welcome. [Click here for workshop listings and full description]

 

 Click here for SLOAN-C Conference registration information.

June 11-12, 2010

COIL Faculty and Staff visited Vilnius, Lithuania to present at the 1st annual EHU (European Humanities University ) elearning conference titled e-learning for a changing world: global and local needs. Prof. Jon Rubin provided the keynote address along with EHU Vice Rector Alaiksandre Kalbaska. SUNY was represented by faculty and staff from 5 separate colleges in addition to the SUNY Global Center. Presentations included the following:

• The American Community College:a model for Life Long Learning and University Preparation by Prof. Richard Cattabiani of SUNY Ulster;
• Teaching English Well Online by Goulnara Sadykova of SUNY Albany; 
• Virtual Learning Environments by Dr. Valeri Chukhlomin of SUNY Empire State;
• E-learning and the language challenge by Prof. Adrian Hull of SUNY Cortland;
• XCult: Three years of Cross-Cultural Video exchange between EHU and SUNY by Prof. Jon Rubin formerly of SUNY Purchase;
• Online Teaching Presence by Dave Decker of SUNY Albany;
• E-learning within a global context by Melanie Wilson of SUNY Global Center.

In addition to the conference, some COIL faculty were able to meet their EHU partner faculty for the first time face-to-face; conduct interviews for ongoing research; and work out plans for the 2010-2011 partnered projects between the two universities. Overall, it was a rewarding and fruitful experience for both SUNY and EHU.

For more information about the conference click here.