The Guide to COIL Virtual Exchange: Implementing, Growing, and Sustaining Collaborative Online International Learning

This is the authoritative guide to implementing COIL Virtual Exchange, conceived, and co-edited by one of the originators of this innovative approach to internationalization, Jon Rubin.COIL, the acronym for Collaborative Online International Learning, is a central modality of what has come to be known as virtual exchange.Since its first iteration in 2002, it has gradually established itself as a mature pedagogy that is being increasingly implemented across the world and is validated by a growing body of research.COIL Virtual Exchange at its most essential is a bi-lateral online exchange involving the integration of existing courses across two, or sometimes more, institutions that are geographically and/or culturally distinct.To launch a COIL VE course, the instructor of a class at a higher education institution in one location links online with a professor and his or her class in another region or country.Together, their students engage and develop joint projects, usually over a contin