COIL Activities

  • SUNY/COIL Team Begins Phase Two of Online Development Project with European Humanities University

    Submitted by admin on Wed, 11/25/2009 - 23:41

    November 13, 2009

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    EHU Colleagues (L to R): Maryia Davidouskaia (w/child Zahar), EHU/SUNY Project Coordinator; Alexander Puptsev, Instructional Designer; Grigory Minenkov, Undergraduate School Dean; Anna Shauchenka, EHU/SUNY Project Assistant; Alexei Kaskevich, IT Department Director; Alexei Krivolap, Acting Director of Distance Learning Center


    The Open Society Institute's Higher Education Support Program has funded a two-year extension of a joint grant with SUNY, originally begun in March, 2008, to enhance the distance learning programs at European Humanities University - International, located in Vilnius, Lithuania. A team of six SUNY experts under the leadership of COIL Director Jon Rubin will work with peers at EHU to create a more dynamic and sustainable educational infrastructure.


    Two members of the COIL team, Jon Rubin and Eric Feinblatt, visited EHU on November 10-13 to hold a collaborative meeting with EHU administrators, staff and faculty, including EHU Rector, Anatolij Mikhailov. Project activities for the coming two years were discussed, and a number were highlighted. These included: professional development; quality assurance; collaborative international course development; the structure and sustainability of eLearning at EHU; implementation of administrative software and student information systems; the development of an online MA Program and the organization of an eLearning Conference, tentatively to be held in Vilnius in June, 2010.

     

  • New Paltz Meeting

    Submitted by admin on Thu, 03/26/2009 - 18:09

    March 26, 2009

    First meeting of the COIL International Education Working Group

    At the recent COIL conference at Purchase College, great interest was expressed by numerous SUNY campus international education offices in working more intensively with the COIL Center. Carlton Rounds, Assistant Director of the New Paltz program offered to host a get together, and fifteen of us made our way to the homey digs of the New Paltz International Education Program in late March to take part in the first meeting of the COIL International Education Working Group.

    In addition to SUNY New Paltz, Binghamton, Purchase, Cortland, Cobleskill, Ulster and SUNY System all sent one to four representatives who met together seeking areas of mutual interest fertile for collaborative development. We worked from a set of five goals developed by COIL Director, Jon Rubin: (follows - Read More) 

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    Goals – The COIL International Education Working Group

    1. To develop faculty pathways to international partnerships that build upon already established international exchange and study abroad relationships based in SUNY International programs.
    2. To integrate COIL-style, faculty-to-faculty online international courses into study abroad programs, and to link them so that they become mutually supportive.
    3. To explore and share ways that online tools can be integrated into the study abroad experience for orientation, re-entry, journaling, intervention, research and administration.
    4. To investigate how online collaborations can be structured to become cross cultural experiences, and to develop guidelines and instruments that draw upon the experience of study abroad to optimize such exchanges.
    5. To establish a COIL/International Education working group committed to working on these and other issues that enhance virtual mobility for SUNY students and for their partners abroad.

    We began to share ideas and develop plans to initiate first steps. These might include:

    • creating templates for faculty seeking partners abroad that would make it easier for them to approach international education offices for support
    • creating templates for international education offices to make it easier for them to approach their international colleagues to broker such faculty-to-faculty partnerships
    • defining a baseline level of campus commitment necessary for collaborative international courses to succeed
    • supporting COIL in raising outside funds to underwrite faculty development grants that would be available across SUNY
    • providing a venue for sharing the experiences of international education offices as they increasingly make use of online tools

    To continue the intensive dialogue begun at our meeting, a wiki or forum will soon be established. Keep an eye on this site for further news about that roll-out.


    Meeting Participants

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    Purchase
    Joseph Sannicandro
    Deirdre Sato
    Keith Landa
    Jon Rubin 
    Cobleskill
    Susan Jagendorf-Sobierajski 
    Cortland
    Kristi Eck 
    System
    Lori Thompson
     

     

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    Katherine Krebs
    Suronda Gonzales
    Ulster
    Richard Cattabiani
    Hope Windle
    Sherry Chisamore
    Jennifer Murray 
    New Paltz
    Carlton Rounds
    Bruce Sillner 



     


     

    		  

     

  • The 2nd Annual COIL Conference Engages the Field

    Submitted by admin on Sat, 11/22/2008 - 21:02

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    Purchase College Professor Jason Pine with University of Central Missouri Professor Bryan Carter In-World


    On Friday, November 14, eighty faculty, staff and administrators from 28 SUNY campuses and colleges as far away as Florida and Indiana met at Purchase College for an exciting and informative all-day event. The focus was on implementation, and presentations spanned the gamut from lectures, to workshops to video conferences to explorations of Second Life. We hope that this event will empower many of those who attended to initiate new globally networked courses that will help to internationalize their campuses. 

    Here is a link to Sarah Guth's PowerPoint presentation from the morning plenary.

    Here is a link to Jason Pine's forthcoming TV show produced in collaboration with Paper Tiger TV.

    The full conference schedule is available in the Conferences pull-down above.