This presentation is for those who are unable to have a synchronous cultural exchange but want to maximize student engagement through an asynchronous experience. This presentation will focus on enriching student collaborations through video assignments. Requiring students to create videos might seem overwhelming, but with a few tips from this presentation, you should be able to create an achievable goal for your students. Videos provide a "real world" scenario: inspiring students to discover, analyze, and question what they are viewing. Still photos are also beneficial, but a video brings the image to life. This presentation will show how cross-cultural groups assigned to collaborate and capture videos of an aspect of their culture can foster an enriching cultural experience across the globe.
This presentation will showcase practical tips for how to incorporate a three-week COIL unit on cross-cultural negotiations. Live webinars, asynchronous negotiation simulations and live synchronous online negotiation simulations were developed as exercises for this course. One major lesson to share is that despite the fact that both professors have over a decade-long experience with teaching online, COIL courses or units pose a different set of challenges and rewards.
Globally our world is governed and driven by the visual image. Using photography as a foundation, I will showcase how fostering professional collaboration in the development and dissemination of COIL enhanced assignments benefits the learner. In this PechaKucha presentation, I will illustrate how a combination of historic analog and current digital capture methods were employed to foster exchanges of cultural similarities and diversity between students. A variety of assignments and student photography examples will be presented, highlighting the success of collaborating with global partners, including U.S. Mexico Multistate COIL Programs and J. Christopher Stevens Virtual Exchange Initiative.
Pyun’s participation in the US-Mexico Multistate COIL Program brought a new instructional design for virtual mobility. In 2016, Fashion Institute of Technology launched the new initiative of COIL for the Office of International Programs and hired an assistant dean of international education dedicated to COIL with collaborative support from the Center for Excellence in Teaching, Office of Distance Learning, and Grants Office, all reporting to the Academic Affairs. This streamlined structure of senior administrators enabled Pyun to establish a sustainable infrastructure to expand COIL partnerships, to disseminate our experience with other instructors on campus and museum professionals off campus, and to implement global learning experience for students with interactive web-based content funded by SUNY grants and overseas foundations. The Bamboo Canvas presents an excellent, replicable model of inter-institutional support structures within campus and through the SUNY System, which yielded a fruitful collaboration of art museums and cultural institutions.
