Collaborative Online International Learning

Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) originated in the SUNY system as a way to link faculty and students across the world to deepen global engagement, cultural perspectives, and increase educational impact within current course offerings.

Through a Faculty Learning Community, IEGE offers support—training, mentoring, resources, and partner matching—for faculty members who wish to develop a virtual exchange experience with a faculty member abroad, connecting students globally to project-based learning and valuable international opportunities. For further explanation of how COIL works, see the short “What is COIL?” video below and investigate how you and your students might engage in meaningful projects and cross-cultural dialog. Please contact Dr. Nan Li, COIL Faculty Coordinator at nli1@csuchico.edu if you have any questions.

COIL Faculty Learning Community

The COIL Faculty Learning Community typically meets once a month for a semester and provides faculty members the opportunity to:

• Understand the typical components of COIL collaborations across the world through an asynchronous workshop.
• Connect with other CSU Chico faculty who have or will launch COIL with the basic components of a COIL collaboration
• Find a global partner for development of a COIL project within a course.

For more information on the COIL Faculty Learning Community, contact COIL Faculty Coordinator, Dr. Nan Li at nli1@csuchico.edu

Faculty Leaders in COIL

Sarah Anderson - Languages and Cultures
Teaching Partner: Gabriel Osuna Osuna, Universidad de Sonora, Mexico.
Global Classroom: Spanish Teaching (SPAN 425)

William Dantona - Languages and Cultures
Teaching Partners: Anca Daniela Frumuselu, Professor of English and German Studies, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain and Marni Mane, Professor of English and German Studies, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Global Classroom: Introduction to International Engagement (INST 110W) with English as a Foreign Language Speaking & Listening, Spain

Keiko Goto - Nutrition and Food Science
Teaching Partner: Sebastian Navas, Gastronomy Coordinator/Professor,  Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador and Yareni Yunuen Gutiérrez Gómez, Associate Professor, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
Global Classroom: Global Nutrition (NFSC 310) and International Issues in Nutrition (NFSC 667)

Sarah Kimakwa - Management
Teaching Partners: Penninah Kanyua, Dorcas Otieno, Roseline Lubulela, Mark Kiiru; Strathmore Business School, Nairobi, Kenya
Global Classroom: Social Entrepreneurship (MGMT 453)

Nan Li - Communication Studies
Teaching Partner: Dr. Lari Arthur Viianto, Economics and Finance Department, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico
Global Classroom: Organizational Leadership and Decision Making (Chico State)/ Networks and Leadership (Guanajuato University)

Fay Mitchell-Brown - School of Nursing
Teaching Partner:Teaching Partner: Dr. Silke Anna Theresa Weber, University of Sao Paul (UNESP), Brazil
Global Classroom: Global Classroom: How do we prepare for chronic diseases?

Browning M. Neddeau - Multicultural and Gender Studies
Teaching Partner: Dr. Gizem Arat, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Global Classroom: Curriculum Theory and Practice B: Arts. "Unraveling Stereotypes in Public Art" (EDTE 524)

Doris Schartmueller - Political Science and Criminal Justice
Teaching Partner: Tian Ma, Lecturer of Criminology, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Global Classroom: Senior Seminar in Criminal Justice (POLS 439W) on the topic of Punishment, Prisons, & Society Comparative Criminal Justice (CRIM 415)

Diana Dwyre - Political Science and Criminal Justice
Teaching partner: Bonnie Palifka, Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico)
Global Classroom: US Campaigns and Elections (POLS 427)

Matthew J. Stone - Marketing
Teaching Partner: Hannu Koikkalainen, Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences (Finland)
Global Classroom: Sales Competitions: Strategy and Practice (MKTG 479)

Jesse A. Dizard - Anthropology
Teaching partner: Professor Velásquez Garcés Duoc UC San Carlos De Apoquindo (Chile).
Global classroom: Culture and Tourism (ANTH 338)  /Heritage Preservation DUOC

Angela Gapa - International Relations
Teaching Partner: Dr. Lari Arthur Viianto, Economics and Finance Department, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico
Global Classroom: Global classroom: Comparative Political Institutions (Chico State)/ Geopolitics (Universidad de Guanajuato)