Stage 2: Partner Selection
Task: Focus on context
Deadline: Monday, 11/03/2014, 11:59 pm EDTFor COIL courses to be successful, partners must engage in an in-depth discussion of collaboration and exchange with a focus on 3 topics:
- why and how two (or more) professors and their students can benefit from working with those coming at related ideas from another culture, another discipline and with, at times, differing objectives;
- why the work process must include give and take across cultures, followed by reflection that brings forth exploration, comparison and sensitivity to difference;
- how each partner’s institutional culture and type (e.g. 2-year vocational, 4-year liberal arts, research institute) influence the choices we make as educators and the options we have at our disposal when innovating.
Please use one or more of the following resources:
Then, choose a course you would like to adapt into a COIL course or, if you are not primarily participating here as a faculty member, think of a course that a faculty member at your institution is planning to adapt into a COIL course. With this course in mind, complete the following as a comment to your group:
- Read about a COIL course students in a SUNY Oswego women’s studies course who engaged online with an international-management class in Lebanon and listen to SUNY Oswego students' reactions following the second iteration (now in it's fourth) of this course.
- Read the Case Study: Critical Terrorism Studies.
- Visit this website created by participants of a COIL course between students of Transhumanism and English Literature at SUNY Oswego and students of Digital Narrative and Creative Writing at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Melbourne, Australia.
Then, choose a course you would like to adapt into a COIL course or, if you are not primarily participating here as a faculty member, think of a course that a faculty member at your institution is planning to adapt into a COIL course. With this course in mind, complete the following as a comment to your group:
- propose 3 interdisciplinary variants and reflect on how each of these three choices would create different opportunities for student engagement; and
- propose 3 possible geographic locations for a partner class and suggest how this choice could influence the outcomes of the COIL course.
Read your peers’ answers to the prompts and engage in discussion using the comment function on your group pages.
1 comment:
Victoria Chai – NCC
The course I am using for this task is COM 101: Interpersonal Communications
1. The three Interdisciplinary Variants I am considering are:
a. Communications and psychology: this pairing would allow for discussion of the impact of emotions and mindset on communications and how they are interconnected
b. Communications and business: this pairing would be ideal for discussion and a project on the impact of language and non-verbal communication on professional interaction. Strategies for intercultural communication in business situations could be part of the focus.
c. Communications and ESL: this pairing would focus on intercultural communication in all aspects of interpersonal and business communication. The US students would learn about the cultural norms of the partner country and the partner country’s students would learn about US cultural norms as well as have an opportunity to work on their English Language skills.
2. The three geographic locations for a partner class I would choose are based on existing relationships. They are:
a. Lebanon: a partnership with a class in Lebanon would have to be asynchronous. Additionally, the lack of bandwidth of the university we are partnered with (Al-Kafaat) prevents us from using Blackboard, so social media would be the best choice.
b. China: a partnership with a class in China would have to be asynchronous. Additionally, the restrictions on access to certain web resources would dictate the modality. When I was in China, I could not access Blackboard. So, we could use “what’s app” and e-mail.
c. Mexico: a partnership with a class in Mexico could be synchronous, so that is a benefit. Also, the students in Mexico would have access to different web resources. So, we could use Blackboard.
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