What is Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL)?
What is COIL at UW - Stout?
Collaborative, online, international learning (COIL) is a method/practice of teaching where individuals separated at a distance use the internet and a structured approach to gather two or more classrooms together to share experiences, exchange ideas, and learn about one another. Instructors and students learn about their discipline from a new perspective and how the resulting knowledge might be applied.
Virtual Exchange Defined
- Virtual Exchange was a term publicly adopted by the Virtual Exchange Coalition in 2011. The definition was refined by the Erasmus-funded EVOLVE project in 2018. Attributes of “virtual exchange” include”
- Practice supported by research
- Sustained people-to-people education activities/programs
- Technology-enabled constructive communication and interactions
- The Stevens Initiative adopted the term virtual exchange as did the European Commission when it launched the ERASMUS+ project in 2018 which further validated the “virtual exchange” definition.