The Berlin network BeCOIL created a series of videos explaining and giving further insights into the concept of COIL.
You can find all the videos here. (Please note that you will be led to an external page – YouTube.)
BeCOIL International Staff Training Week 2025 – register now!
The BeCOIL project will be hosting a Staff Week on the topic of „Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL): Creating an international impact at home“ as part of the Freie Universität Berlin’s International Staff Training Week, which will take place from June 23 to June 27, 2025.
The innovative teaching and learning format COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning) is an innovative concept that enables digital collaboration between universities worldwide. Students gain valuable experience in global team work through cross-border projects, developing cultural, collaborative and digital skills – essential key qualifications that enhance students’ employability.
The BeCOIL International Staff Training Week 2025 will be open for educators and administrative staff with an interest in and experience of COIL. It will address best practices, challenges and solutions of implementing and doing COIL. In addition, we want to connect and exchange experience and expertise in order to grow and take new ideas and strategies back to our home universities to enhance the use of COIL in our classrooms.
Please follow this link to find further information and to submit your application. Applications are now open until January 27, 2025.
Virtual BeCOIL Meetup on December 5
Prof. Dr. Daniel Michelis (Hochschule Anhalt, University of Applied Sciences, Germany) will kick off this 60-minute discussion session by sharing his COIL experiences with South Africa and Ghana. Seasoned COIL practitioners as well as COIL enthusiasts from Berlin and around the world will join the meetup.
The event is moderated by BeCOIL project coordinators from nine Berlin universities.
Online-event, Thursday, December 5, 2024, 9:30 – 10:30 AM (CEST) .
How to COIL – How to Design Collaborative Online Courses with International Colleagues on November 28
This 90-minute online course provides an introduction to the Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) approach and outlines how you can incorporate digital and international elements into your teaching. To illustrate the COIL concept we have invited Reinout Klamer from the The Hague University of Applied Sciences (THUAS), who will discuss how you can build capacity for COIL at your institution featuring an example of a COIL held at THUAS.
BeCOIL and the Berlin Centre for Higher Education (BZHL) will jointly organise the event.
Online-event, Thursday, November 28, 2024, from 9:30 to 11:00 am (CEST).