provide all the knowledge and tools required by faculty interested in implementing a COIL component with colleagues from at least two countries. These workshops are specifically designed to help professors define the students’ learning outcomes, academic activities, tools to use, and the evaluation criteria they will apply in their COIL component. The workshops are conducted online and are four weeks long. Participants have asynchronous access to all the materials available in an educational platform, which is developed specially for the program with the support of COIL experts.  

In addition, once a week, participants must attend a two-hour live online session with the instructor to reinforce the modules’ content, answer questions, and exchange progress and experiences. Usually, those sessions are programmed on Fridays, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (CDT). At the end of the workshop, faculty present their final projects, including the syllabus of the COIL component and a video presentation to promote their courses among potential students.  Participants that complete all the activities and attend all the working sessions  receive a certificate of participation.

The PIC-AMERICAS will offer six COIL Design workshops, four in English and two in Spanish. Each faculty member must register individually, but all members of the COIL teaching team must attend  the same session because they will work together in the design of the syllabus of the COIL component they will offer jointly. 

A COIL teaching team must be composed of two or more professors from at least two different higher education institutions in the Americas. Once the COIL teaching team is ready to start training,  professors must  select the dates of one of the sessions from the following calendar.   Remember that all members of the COIL teaching team must apply individually but participate together.