Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL)
Building upon FIU’s deep experience creating hundreds of impactful global learning courses across the curriculum, FIU COIL utilizes technology and the Internet to connect students and faculty with their peers across national borders.
COIL (pioneered by SUNY) enables intercultural teams to develop meaningful collaborative projects that increase students’ and faculty members’ knowledge and help them better understand and empathize with other people’s perspectives. Since COIL is embedded within the curriculum, participating students gain access to the world and its diversity without incurring any additional cost.