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SUNY COIL Conference webcast 4/25 & 4/26

Invitation to Free Webcast of the 10th Anniversary COIL Conference

More Info and to Register? http://coil.suny.edu/webcast

Questions?

Please email COILConference@suny.edu

April 25, 2016: 9:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. NYC EDT Time

Monday Webcast Agenda

April 26, 2016: 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. NYC EDT Time

Tuesday Webcast Agenda

For more info about the Conference please visit: http://coil.suny.edu/conference

The 10th Anniversary COIL Conference is again booked to capacity. In order to allow individuals across the world who may not be able to attend for geographic, financial, political, or other reasons to benefit from the many informative sessions on Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL)* at the conference, the SUNY COIL Center will again be:

  • Offering a free live webcast of all plenary sessions and two presentations during each breakout session
  • Recording all conference sessions to be made available as a video archive on the COIL Center website

The SUNY COIL Center’s annual conference is the leading international event in the field and brings together nearly 400 professors, international programs staff, instructional technologists, and university and college administrators from SUNY, across the U.S. and around the world to share innovative models and best practices.

2016 COIL Conference Webcast Sessions Include

Opening Plenary Session

  • Welcome Remarks from CUNY’s Executive Vice Chancellor and University Provost Vita C. Rabinowitz
  • The COIL Story: A Reflection: The COIL Story: What we have done and why is it important?, Jon Rubin, Director, SUNY COIL Center (United States)
  • Keynote Address:  Globally Networked Learning for a Planet in Peril: Where Do We Go Now?, Doreen Starke-Meyerring, Associate Professor, McGill University (Canada)
  • Panel Discussion: What has changed, what have we learned and where do we go now? – An interaction with our audience

Day 2 Plenary Sessions

  • Town Hall Meeting – How to Support Growth of COIL Initiatives Across the USA and Abroad
  • Welcome Remarks from SUNY’s Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher
  • Keynote Address:  Higher Education in a Shared World Susan Buck Sutton, Senior Advisor for International Initiatives, Bryn Mawr College
  • An Introduction to the Stevens Initiative by Henry Shepherd, Assistant Director of the J. Christopher Stevens Virtual Exchange Initiative, Aspen Institute
  • Panel Discussion: Where is COIL practice going? What funders are supporting COIL and Virtual Exchange, and what higher education institutions are adopting the model?

16 Breakout Sessions Including

  • Institutionalizing COIL through Collaboration Across a System
  • The Good, the Bad and the New! COIL-ing Over Time
  • COIL experiences enhanced by organically emerged mobility components
  • COIL: Creating Access to Global Learning for All
  • SUNY COIL Center Turkey Hub and Course Development Initiative: From Catering to Cartography: Against all odds!
  • Getting COIL to stick on your campus
  • COIL and the West Virginia Higher Education Trade Mission Model
  • Dragon Tales: Lessons learnt from multiple COIL courses taught at a 4-year institution

For a detailed webcast agenda and session abstracts please visit http://coil.suny.edu/webcast

For a decade the SUNY COIL Center has been reimagining education as a globally networked phenomenon. Collaborative Online International Learning* links faculty across borders to co-create learning environments in which students gain valuable digital and cross-cultural competencies through collaboration with international peers. We have in parallel expanded the landscape of higher education institutions at SUNY, across the US and the world who are internationalizing their curricula by implementing the COIL model to benefit their students, as well as their faculty and staff.

Our own networks have grown from a handful of loosely participating campuses in 2006 to over 50 committed member institutions working to normalize this model. At this, our tenth anniversary conference, we gather together to reflect on the evolution of the field, to celebrate accomplishments, to welcome new practitioners to our networks, and to investigate what new directions the next ten years may bring.

*COIL is used to refer to pedagogical activities using technology to link classrooms and students in geographically distant locations through coursework. Other terms describing such activities are virtual exchange, virtual mobility, globally networked learning, telecollaboration, and online intercultural exchange.

 

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CLAC 2016 – save the date!

The conference in 2016 will be held on October 21-22 at Drake University in Des Moines. The theme is Developing Responsible Global Citizenship Through CLAC.

The CLAC approach to integrating languages, cultures, and discipline-specific content renders it uniquely qualified to develop in students this type of global citizenship. Keynote speakers will be given by Richard Kiely from Cornell and Dawn Whitehead from AAC&U.