Global Classrooms and COIL

What are Global Classrooms at MC?

MC defines Global Classrooms as a teaching and learning practice that incorporates the tenets of Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL). COIL is defined as an approach to teaching and learning that brings together geographically distant instructors and students from different lingua-cultural backgrounds to communicate and collaborate through online tools, such as virtual exchanges and other platforms (SUNY COIL, n.d.)

Global Classrooms projects can take many forms that enhance intercultural communication and mutually beneficial collaboration. These may include synchronous virtual exchanges involving culturally relevant themes, asynchronous activities that promote growth in global knowledge and cultural competence, individual student virtual interactions that deepen cultural awareness, and virtual guest lectures by faculty members on an area of expertise. See examples of Global Classrooms projects via the Global Classrooms Faculty Fellowship Showcase tabs below.

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About Global Classrooms/COIL at MC

MC offers several ways for faculty to engage in developing both synchronous and asynchronous virtual collaborations between their students and university students from different parts of the world.

The Montgomery College Global Classrooms/COIL Faculty Fellowship (GCFF), sponsored by ELITE and the Humanities Division, provides an opportunity for faculty members from all disciplines to collaborate with faculty from our international partner institutions. Faculty members who are accepted into the fellowship commit to two academic semesters focused on developing professional relationships with faculty members from an academic institution in a different part of the world to develop mutually beneficial communicative and collaborative projects for the courses they are teaching.  For more details on the expectations of the GCFF, please click here (PDF, )

In addition to the Faculty Fellowship, there are resources available to increase knowledge of how to utilize COIL in the classroom. MC is a member of the SUNY COIL Global Networknew window, which offers workshops via ZOOM on topics connected to COIL. Contact the GCFF/COIL coordinators, Shelley Jones or Carla Naranjo for access codes to available workshops!

Co-coordinators Shelley Jones and Carla Naranjo are also available to work with faculty members individually, as needed. 

Since its inception in 2017, full-time and part-time faculty members from the following disciplines have participated in the GCFF: Anthropology, Art, Art History, Biology, Chemistry, Communication, Counseling, Economics, ELAP, English, French, Geography, History, Korean, Nursing, Nutrition, Music, Sociology, Spanish, Psychology, and Women’s/Gender Studies.

Global Classrooms Faculty Fellowship Cohorts

 

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