COIL at FGCU

FGCU Faculty will partner with another instructor in a different region of the world to integrate student collaboration into syllabi and the planning of their relative courses. Faculty can locate partner instructors on their own, request assistance from FGCU International Services Office or utilize the SUNY COIL Global Partner Network. The amount of collaboration, the frequency of collaboration and the forms of collaboration with the global counterpart are flexible and determined by the partnered faculty. For example, although curricula will overlap in some way and most courses will be focused on similar topics, the two courses could potentially come out of different disciplines. Faculty could decide that to achieve learning outcomes several simultaneous sessions should be scheduled throughout the term. Or, it could be that students never meet in a simultaneous setting and instead collaborate on certain activities or assignments. Whatever the collaboration, it will involve technology in some form, it needs to be incorporated into the curricula and should be well planned. Ideal courses for the COIL initiative should have a global dimension that can be enhanced by multicultural inputs, perspectives and solutions. 

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