For COIL to thrive on campus, support structures need to be in place that incentivize faculty to participate. This can take many different forms, especially around support for research and scholarship on campus. In this session, presenters will share different ways their campuses have leveraged participation in COIL projects and how they support others looking to see the benefits of implementing a COIL project.
Dr. Maria Ines Marino is Teaching Professor in the Department of Communication at FIU. Professor Marino has been teaching and designing COIL courses since 2016. María Inés’ students have collaborated with international university partners in France, Spain, Dubai, and Argentina. She has been involved in several collaborative research projects that unite the fields of intercultural communication and COIL, focusing on underrepresented populations in higher education.
Dr. María Cristina Montoya has been implementing COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning) in her language courses since 2014. Her Fulbright mission in 2019, “Intercultural Competence through (COIL)”, focused on forming relationships to contribute to communities in becoming global. In 2022, her work continued as a Fulbright Specialist at Universidad del Valle, disseminating and institutionalizing COIL. Her participation in Fulbright through the implementation of COIL programs facilitates the use of technology in education to create academic/social networks to fight social injustice and form mature individuals to be respectful intercultural citizens of the world.
Dr. Anuradhaa Shastri is a professor at the Department of Educational Psychology, Counseling, and Special Education at The State University of New York, Oneonta (SUNY Oneonta). Her Fulbright-Nehru grant work in India during Spring 2022 was grounded on Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL). She believes the COIL pedagogy enables her to highlight a global perspective in her classroom embodied in the Sanskrit phrase, “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam”, which means “The World Is One Family”.
Dr. Anisa Vahed is an Associate Professor and Senior Educational Developer at the Academy of Future Education at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, China. She is a Fulbright Fellow, Teaching Advancement at University (TAU) Fellow, Y2 NRF Rated Researcher, and Future Professor Programme Scholar. Since 2016, she has been involved in global virtual exchange through COIL and publishes extensively in this area.