Submitted by: Michelle Wynn, mwynn@uca.edu on 02/28/2025
The Center for Global Learning and Engagement invites all UCA faculty to participate in the fifth Annual Global Learning Institute, May 19-20, 2025. The first day’s training is on COIL, or Collaborative Online International Learning, and will be led by Dr. Riva Brown, former UCA Professor of Public Relations and Executive Director of the American Red Cross of Greater Arkansas. Dr Brown completed numerous COIL collaborations while at UCA. The second half-day will include a faculty panel on integrating the UN SDGs in the classroom. Faculty who register receive a stipend of $100. COIL truly is a powerful methodology for engaging students with other cultures in a 5 week collaboration. The target semester for your COIL collaboration would be spring 2026, although fall 2025 is also possible if we can find you a partner before the end of May. You can either ask an international colleague whom you know to work with you, or CGLE will help you look for a partner. COIL courses offer a great opportunity to enrich UCA students’ learning by asking students to collaborate with students from another country.
See this online list of COIL universities: https://coilconnect.org/
Read more about the UCA COIL initiative and previous Global Classrooms at UCA: https://uca.edu/global-learning/coil/.
Apply for the Global Learning Institute at: https://uca.edu/cetal/global-learning-institute/
Deadline March 14, 2025
For more info. contact Phil Bailey at phillipb@uca.edu
https://uca.edu/global-learning/coil/
