Checklist
Your path to a successful COIL
Step by step guide
Find a Unite! partner
you want to collaborate with.
Agree on a topic of choice
Decide together with your partners on the content, who
provides the teaching, what formats will be used and the duration of the course. Please also keep in mind different academic calendars.
Define the roles within the COIL
Institutional Approval
Depending on the institution, it may be necessary to obtain the approval of the relevant authorities at university level.
Craft the syllabus
Ensure that the syllabus is ready well in advance
Release of Offering
Once all the decisions have been made, it is time to release the offering. Find out more here:
Spreading the word – Promoting Collaborative
Offerings (no link yet)
Ensure the COIL is ready to go!
Issue the credits to students
Each teaching university gives credits to their own students.
You're done!
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Important to consider when setting up a COIL
Define and communicate with students what are the goals of the collaboration
Consider low threshold cooperation models:
e.g. guest lecturing; joint online lectures + local tutoring/exercise, groups, multidisciplinary groups + project work
Plan students' interaction carefully
to ensure students' groupwork will be diverse but also fair and productive
Plan the use of digital learning environments and online teaching elements
to ensure data protection and easy access to students from all participating universities
Discuss how will course feedback be processed and consider adopting a PDCA (Plan, do, check and act) method
to ensure the quality of future implementations of that course