Professional Development Workshops
Incorporating a COIL Collaboration into your existing course doesn’t require an expensive technology platform or extensive redesign of your course. It only requires an interest in effective, innovative pedagogy, a bit of flexibility and enthusiasm, and some thoughtful preparation. A well planned COIL Collaboration enhances your existing course, helps students develop curiosity about the world and a deeper understanding of their own and other cultures, bolsters 21st century skills, and provides new perspectives on course content.
SUNY COIL Center professional development workshops are designed to prepare and improve your COIL practice – whether you’re a professor planning your first COIL Collaboration, an experienced COIL instructor looking to improve, an administrator supporting the scaling of COIL at your institution, or the point person for COIL activities on your campus.
With almost 20 years of experience developing, supporting and scaling COIL at higher education institutions of all types, the SUNY COIL Center has identified important elements you should master to ensure COIL Collaborations have the greatest positive impact on students, professors and institutions. We’ve organized these topics into highly participatory hybrid workshops to help you meet your needs, mirroring your students’ experience meeting and working with people from all over the world, together learning about COIL virtual exchange.
We look forward to working with you!
- COIL Foundations
Highly effective COIL collaborations require an active learning approach that supports students’ online professionalism, project management and development of intercultural skills. COIL Foundations provides tools that you can use to develop and facilitate a successful and rewarding COIL collaboration for you and your students. You will examine issues of culture, language, virtual team building, partnership and the importance of reflection to develop skills.
COIL Foundations specifically address how to support students’ intercultural skills online, considerations for finding and maintaining a strong relationship with your COIL teaching partner, when, the importance and how to use reflection activities, options and approaches to bridging language differences, and how to approach team building and developing trust.
- Identify, examine and practice hands-on activities to consider how cultural identity connects to working together in student teams.
- Examine and practice reflective approaches to students working in teams, internationally.
- Analyze and create constructivist hands-on virtual exchange activities and projects, with a focus on projects that incorporate UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Format: COIL Foundations is three weeks in duration, conducted asynchronously, with one-hour weekly synchronous meetings. The one-hour meetings are full of activities for professors to emulate with their students and are recorded for those who cannot make a specific date/time. All SUNY COIL workshops are interactive and require 2+ hours of work per week.
Synchronous Meeting Timing: We do our best to accommodate the wide range of time zones of all participants who have signed up for any particular workshop. All participants will receive an availability survey a few weeks before each workshop begins.
If a large group from your institution will be participating in any one workshop, please feel free to send your group’s general availability to the SUNY COIL Center Staff Assistant, Katie Huntington, at katie.huntington@oneonta.edu in advance so that we can be sure to plan accordingly.
June 9 – July 4, 2025
August 11 – 29, 2025
October 13 – 31, 2025
January 12 – 30, 2026
March 9 – 27, 2026
June 8 – 26, 2026
SUNY COIL Global Partner Network Member | Non-Member |
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Click here to purchase a workshop seat or package, or contact the SUNY COIL Center Staff Assistant, Katie Huntington, at katie.huntington@oneonta.edu to receive an invoice. Purchased seats can be used by any individual at your institution (or partner institution) and applied towards any of our 3-week workshops. Accepted payment methods are credit card, check, wire transfer, and ACH. Please note that seats must be paid in full before registering for any workshop, and all seats must be used within one calendar year of purchase. If you are unsure if your institution has available workshop seats, contact your institution’s COIL Coordinator or email katie.huntington@oneonta.edu.
If you are interested in becoming a SUNY COIL Global Partner Network Member, click here to learn more. SUNY COIL Membership offers a wide variety of supplemental resources and networking opportunities, and can help you to make the most of your professional development experience.
After purchasing your workshop seat(s), click here to register for an upcoming COIL Foundations workshop.
If you are unsure if your institution has available workshop seats, contact your institution’s COIL Coordinator or email katie.huntington@oneonta.edu.
- COIL Elements
COIL opens a world of possibilities for active, applied, collaborative activities that interest and motivate students while invigorating your teaching practice. Making good design choices for your COIL Collaboration takes careful consideration and an open mind. Preparing students to work with peers in another country online can enrich the experience and help ensure its success.
The COIL Elements workshop explores what makes a compelling COIL Collaboration, roles of students and professors, online behavior, creating active student teams, matching technology choices to activity design, preparing students for COIL, and developing your COIL resource bank.
- Analyze, and design icebreakers and activities appropriate for asynchronous and synchronous virtual exchange curriculum.
- Review and reflect on virtual exchange best practices for COIL partner success.
- Explore student team approaches in preparation for facilitating successful international student teams.
Format: COIL Elements is three weeks in duration, conducted asynchronously, with one-hour weekly synchronous meetings. The one-hour meetings are full of activities for professors to emulate with their students and are recorded for those who cannot make a specific date/time. All SUNY COIL workshops are interactive and require 2+ hours of work per week.
Synchronous Meeting Timing: We do our best to accommodate the wide range of time zones of all participants who have signed up for any particular workshop. All participants will receive an availability survey a few weeks before each workshop begins.
If a large group from your institution will be participating in any one workshop, please feel free to send your group’s general availability to the SUNY COIL Center Staff Assistant, Katie Huntington, at katie.huntington@oneonta.edu in advance so that we can be sure to plan accordingly.
June 9 – July 4, 2025
October 13 – 31, 2025
February 9 – 27, 2026
April 13 – May 1, 2026
June 8 – 26, 2026
SUNY COIL Global Partner Network Member | Non-Member |
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Click here to purchase a workshop seat or package, or contact the SUNY COIL Center Staff Assistant, Katie Huntington, at katie.huntington@oneonta.edu to receive an invoice. Purchased seats can be used by any individual at your institution (or partner institution) and applied towards any of our 3-week workshops. Accepted payment methods are credit card, check, wire transfer, and ACH. Please note that seats must be paid in full before registering for any workshop, and all seats must be used within one calendar year of purchase. If you are unsure if your institution has available workshop seats, contact your institution’s COIL Coordinator or email katie.huntington@oneonta.edu.
If you are interested in becoming a SUNY COIL Global Partner Network Member, click here to learn more. SUNY COIL Membership offers a wide variety of supplemental resources and networking opportunities, and can help you to make the most of your professional development experience.
After purchasing your workshop seat(s), click here to register for an upcoming COIL Elements workshop.
If you are unsure if your institution has available workshop seats, contact your institution’s COIL Coordinator or email katie.huntington@oneonta.edu.
- COIL Design
You’ve found your partner, you’ve considered your options, and now you’re ready to design your COIL Collaboration.
The COIL Design workshop will walk you and your teaching partner through each part of the development process. At the end of the workshop you should have a blueprint of your COIL Collaboration, ready for implementation.
Topics will include: COIL pedagogy and flow, developing common and course-specific goals, setting expectations for partners and students, logistical aspects, designing your COIL activities, assessment, and troubleshooting.
This workshop will bring together topics from COIL Foundations and COIL Elements and apply them to your particular COIL Collaboration. Both teaching partners should take the COIL Design workshop at the same time.
Members of the SUNY COIL Global Network may also participate in our Partnering Bulletin and/or Fair, which will help you find a COIL teaching partner to work with before you register for COIL Design.
- Develop protocol, including a logistics document for working with your COIL partner.
- Create team focused activities that empower student exploration of curricular and cultural concepts appropriate for international collaboration with consideration to providing guidance regarding language, and technologic inequities.
- Create assessments that empower student collaborations, with intentional focus to the UN Sustainable development goals as well as power dynamics, issues of equity in line with the colonial history of the global south and global north.
Format: COIL Design is three weeks in duration, conducted asynchronously, with one-hour weekly synchronous meetings. The one-hour meetings are full of activities for professors to emulate with their students and are recorded for those who cannot make a specific date/time. All SUNY COIL workshops are interactive and require 2+ hours of work per week. COIL Design is intended to be taken with your COIL partner.
Synchronous Meeting Timing: We do our best to accommodate the wide range of time zones of all participants who have signed up for any particular workshop. All participants will receive an availability survey a few weeks before each workshop begins.
If a large group from your institution will be participating in any one workshop, please feel free to send your group’s general availability to the SUNY COIL Center Staff Assistant, Katie Huntington, at katie.huntington@oneonta.edu in advance so that we can be sure to plan accordingly.
June 9 – July 4, 2025
September 8 – 26, 2025
November 10 – 28, 2025
February 9 – 27, 2026
June 8 – 26, 2026
SUNY COIL Global Partner Network Member | Non-Member |
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Click here to purchase a workshop seat or package, or contact the SUNY COIL Center Staff Assistant, Katie Huntington, at katie.huntington@oneonta.edu to receive an invoice. Purchased seats can be used by any individual at your institution (or partner institution) and applied towards any of our 3-week workshops. Accepted payment methods are credit card, check, wire transfer, and ACH. Please note that seats must be paid in full before registering for any workshop, and all seats must be used within one calendar year of purchase. If you are unsure if your institution has available workshop seats, contact your institution’s COIL Coordinator or email katie.huntington@oneonta.edu.
If you are interested in becoming a SUNY COIL Global Partner Network Member, click here to learn more. SUNY COIL Membership offers a wide variety of supplemental resources and networking opportunities, and can help you to make the most of your professional development experience.
After purchasing your workshop seat(s), click here to register for an upcoming COIL Design workshop.
If you are unsure if your institution has available workshop seats, contact your institution’s COIL Coordinator or email katie.huntington@oneonta.edu.
- COIL Coordinator
COIL Coordinators are the point people for COIL at their institution. This designation requires Coordinators to be very knowledgeable about COIL and to know what resources, initiatives, and communities are available to support professors at their universities and their COIL partners.
The COIL Coordinator Workshop is designed to help Coordinators develop the tools and team they need to support COIL at their institution.
Topics include determining institutional assets that can support COIL, aligning institutional goals with COIL outcomes, cultivating a local team to align and support your COIL program, creating and supporting a cohort of professors and their international partner colleagues, preparing students for their COIL experience, and consider approaches to problem solving for when the inevitable issues arise.
- Determine the aligning institutional initiatives and campus partners to grow your institutional COIL program.
- Review and design an approach to supporting professors with all aspects of developing a COIL project including partnerships.
- Reflect on all aspects of marketing COIL to your institution focusing specifically in preparation for student involvement in your COIL program and COIL courses in accordance with the culture of your campus.
Format: COIL Coordinator is three weeks in duration, conducted asynchronously, with one-hour weekly synchronous meetings. The one-hour meetings are full of activities for professors to emulate with their students and are recorded for those who cannot make a specific date/time. All SUNY COIL workshops are interactive and require 2+ hours of work per week. Consider participating in this workshop with potential team members.
Synchronous Meeting Timing: We do our best to accommodate the wide range of time zones of all participants who have signed up for any particular workshop. All participants will receive an availability survey a few weeks before each workshop begins.
If a large group from your institution will be participating in any one workshop, please feel free to send your group’s general availability to the SUNY COIL Center Staff Assistant, Katie Huntington, at katie.huntington@oneonta.edu in advance so that we can be sure to plan accordingly.
June 9 – July 4, 2025
August 11 – 29, 2025
January 12 – 30, 2026
SUNY COIL Global Partner Network Member | Non-Member |
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Click here to purchase a workshop seat or package, or contact the SUNY COIL Center Staff Assistant, Katie Huntington, at katie.huntington@oneonta.edu to receive an invoice. Purchased seats can be used by any individual at your institution (or partner institution) and applied towards any of our 3-week workshops. Accepted payment methods are credit card, check, wire transfer, and ACH. Please note that seats must be paid in full before registering for any workshop, and all seats must be used within one calendar year of purchase. If you are unsure if your institution has available workshop seats, contact your institution’s COIL Coordinator or email katie.huntington@oneonta.edu.
If you are interested in becoming a SUNY COIL Global Partner Network Member, click here to learn more. SUNY COIL Membership offers a wide variety of supplemental resources and networking opportunities, and can help you to make the most of your professional development experience.
After purchasing your workshop seat(s), click here to register for an upcoming COIL Coordinator workshop.
If you are unsure if your institution has available workshop seats, contact your institution’s COIL Coordinator or email katie.huntington@oneonta.edu.
- COIL Administrator
The COIL Administrator Workshop is for any staff supporting COIL at an institution, such as Deans, Teaching and Learning staff, Instructional Designers, International Educators, Department Chairs, etc. COIL Coordinators may also join this workshop, particularly if other administrators from their campus will be participating.
This workshop explores the responsibilities of each role in supporting successful COIL Collaborations, as well as reviewing considerations for scaling COIL at an institution.
Topics include strategizing about the campus infrastructure to support your COIL endeavor, creating approaches to identify and support teaching partnerships for COIL collaborations, designing engaging COIL activities focusing on the UN Sustainable Development Goals, reviewing technology criteria and tools for COIL, locating support and approaches to intercultural learning online and orienting students for COIL success.
- Explore opportunities, overlapping initiatives and campus staff that can support the growth of a COIL program in your institution.
- Reflect and practice creating engaging COIL activities that promote opportunities for students to connect across cultures and countries, to balance inequalities, and participate in decolonizing practices of communication considering language, translanguaging, UN Sustainable Development Goals and forms of inequities that appear in COIL projects.
- Create a strategy for supporting and scaling a successful COIL program at your institution.
Format: COIL Administrator is three weeks in duration, conducted asynchronously, with one-hour weekly synchronous meetings. The one-hour meetings are full of activities for professors to emulate with their students and are recorded for those who cannot make a specific date/time. All SUNY COIL workshops are interactive and require 2+ hours of work per week.
Synchronous Meeting Timing: We do our best to accommodate the wide range of time zones of all participants who have signed up for any particular workshop. All participants will receive an availability survey a few weeks before each workshop begins.
If a large group from your institution will be participating in any one workshop, please feel free to send your group’s general availability to the SUNY COIL Center Staff Assistant, Katie Huntington, at katie.huntington@oneonta.edu in advance so that we can be sure to plan accordingly.
September 8 – 26, 2025
March 9 – 27, 2026
SUNY COIL Global Partner Network Member | Non-Member |
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Click here to purchase a workshop seat or package, or contact the SUNY COIL Center Staff Assistant, Katie Huntington, at katie.huntington@oneonta.edu to receive an invoice. Purchased seats can be used by any individual at your institution (or partner institution) and applied towards any of our 3-week workshops. Accepted payment methods are credit card, check, wire transfer, and ACH. Please note that seats must be paid in full before registering for any workshop, and all seats must be used within one calendar year of purchase. If you are unsure if your institution has available workshop seats, contact your institution’s COIL Coordinator or email katie.huntington@oneonta.edu.
If you are interested in becoming a SUNY COIL Global Partner Network Member, click here to learn more. SUNY COIL Membership offers a wide variety of supplemental resources and networking opportunities, and can help you to make the most of your professional development experience.
After purchasing your workshop seat(s), click here to register for an upcoming COIL Administrator workshop.
If you are unsure if your institution has available workshop seats, contact your institution’s COIL Coordinator or email katie.huntington@oneonta.edu.