Task 3

Stage 2: Partner Selection

Focus: Institutional Context

Deadline: Monday, 11/10/2014, 11:59 pm EST
Partner outreach, engagement, course development and implementation should not be a solo effort, even if it is often a faculty member’s interest in internationalizing their course that motivates this activity.
Both collaborating faculty partners are based at higher education institutions, and the key stakeholders at each institution need to be part of the process. Without such support the course development process will be more difficult and implementation will be harder to sustain. As our goal is to have every COIL course serve as a pilot for additional COIL courses at the partnered institutions, the partnering and development process should be visible to others, so it can spark and prepare the way for further potential collaborations from the outset.

Please click on this link and respond to questions which are designed to help you identify potential strengths and weaknesses of your institutional context, especially as it relates to your locating and sustaining partners.



Deadline: Friday, 11/21/2014, 11:59 pm EST

Completing your profile with video

Those who were able to participate in one of the two first FlashMeetings (Link 1, Link 2) agreed that seeing and hearing one another in the video format helped us better know one another. So, in addition to what we learned about how we want to present ourselves to potential partners through the written profiles and images, we are now going to produce video presentations to accompany these.

Based on what has been discussed in this course so far, go back to your original profile from week 1 and consider what you now want to communicate to a potential partner. This time, however, you will be producing a video rather than completing a table or writing an email. You are welcome to record your own video (max 2 min.) but we invite you to have a Skype "interview" (it will actually be more of a monologue presentation) with me (Mirjam) that will be recorded and subsequently made available to potential partners via the COIL Center.

To prepare for this please make a bullet point list in preparation for the video so that you hit the points you want to foreground, but are not reading from a card. You will be able to produce another video if you are not satisfied with the way yours comes out.

In order to schedule a time for your brief Skype interview (max. 10 min.), click on this scheduling link and choose the time that best suits you. Once you have reserved your time on Doodle, add SUNY COIL Center as a contact to your Skype account. If you don't already have one, you'll have to find a way to make the video on your own and then upload it to this Assignment as a multimedia file or send us a link to it if it's located elsewhere on the web.