Faculty Development

Smith COIL Faculty Fellows

With support from the Title VI CIBE grant, the Center brings two COIL opportunities to the business education community. Collaborative Online International Learning, or COIL, is an innovative pedagogy that brings students and faculty together in online platforms to work collaboratively on experiential projects. It is an inclusive pedagogy that expands access to experiential global learning, enables students to practice in-demand skills in virtual and multinational teaming, and encourages skills development in cross-cultural communication.

Fellows are selected in each department to attend national COIL workshops offered by the Title VI CIBE consortium in year one (see below), commit to developing their own COILs in year two, and serve as mentors to additional Smith faculty by year three. Each Fellowship comes with a small stipend, instructional design support offered jointly through CGB and the Office of Digital Learning, access to the resources of UMD’s Office of Global Learning, and support for partnership matchmaking and relationship management.

Inquire at rbelling@umd.edu by September 1.

Discover how COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning) can enrich teaching and foster meaningful global connections. This faculty program will address:

  • Why implement COIL in your business course
  • Examples of COIL projects involving business students and peers studying business and other disciplines
  • Benefits for business students and faculty across disciplines
  • COIL's design sequence: icebreakers, collaborative tasks, and reflections
  • Links to mobility, research, career prep, and more
  • Resources for finding an international partner and preparing to implement COIL

COIL is an innovative pedagogy that brings students and faculty together in online platforms to work collaboratively on experiential projects. It is an inclusive pedagogy that expands access to experiential global learning, enables students to practice in-demand skills in virtual and multinational teaming, and encourages skills development in cross-cultural communication.

Faculty from the Smith School, international partner universities, University System of Maryland Schools, minority-serving institutions, and community colleges interested in delivering a COIL class are invited to attend one of two information sessions. Faculty will have the opportunity to be matched with faculty from another institution for COIL course development. A guided design sprint will be offered to select faculty pairs in April 2025.

Dates:

  • Friday, February 14, 1 to 2 p.m. EST
  • Wednesday, February 19, 3 to 4 p.m. EST

Register to attend

Questions? Contact Rebecca Bellinger at rbelling@umd.edu.

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