The Guide to COIL Virtual Exchange: Implementing, Growing, and Sustaining Collaborative Online International Learning - Paperback

by Jon Rubin (Editor), Sarah Guth (Editor)

This book offers faculty and administrators across the world -- whether formally involved in international education, in service-learning and community engagement, or wanting to incorporate a cross-cultural perspective in their disciplinary courses.

Author Biography

Jon Rubin, founder and former director of SUNY's COIL Center, is director of both COIL Consulting and COIL Connect for Virtual Exchange (https: //coilconnect.org) a web initiative that supports institutions committed to COIL Virtual Exchange. He co-facilitated four iterations of the COIL Leadership Institute between 2017-2021, with the American Council on Education and later with Florida International University. Sarah Guth is the President of UNICollaboration, a cross-disciplinary professional organization for telecollaboration and virtual exchange in Higher Education, and teaches English as a Foreign Language at the University of Padova, Italy where she has implemented virtual exchange (VE) for two decades. She was the Program Coordinator at the SUNY COIL Center from 2013 to 2014. She currently focuses on the role of professional development in VE and the integration of VE into internationalization-at-home strategies. Stephanie Doscher is Director of Florida International University's Office of Collaborative Online International Learning (FIU COIL). She also serves as Program Evaluator for the university's Title VI-funded Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean National Resource Center. Stephanie's work focuses primarily on organizational leadership and strategic planning, professional development, and integrative curricular and co-curricular design to enable global learning for all. Her research interests concern global learning instruction and assessment and the relationship between global learning, social innovation, and inclusive excellence. Stephanie advises a wide range of colleges and universities and presents engaging workshops for faculty and staff on methods for realizing their unique visions for transformative global learning. In addition to her co-authored article with Hilary Landorf, "Defining Global Learning at Florida International University," recent publications include "Global Learning for Global Citizenship" in Human Developmen