K-12 COIL promotes and supports Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) in K-12 education.

Global Connections
Enhancing K-12 Education
with COIL

K-12 Education with COIL

Connect each classroom across different geographical locations.

We envision creating a learning environment without borders that can flexibly connect each classroom across different geographical locations. We believe such a ubiquitous intercultural learning environment that fosters shared values, mutual understanding, and critical thinking, and which promotes interaction across boundaries to broaden students' global horizons, leadership skills, collaborative problem-solving abilities, and contextual decision-making literacy.

Our Mission

Our mission is leveraging the advantages of technology to connect with classrooms worldwide to extend learning activities in school into exciting global learning experiences, enabling students to learn collaboratively with peers from different countries and positively influencing each other

K-12 Education with COIL K-12 Education with COIL

K-12 COIL creates an international learning environment

K-12 COIL creates an international learning environment embedded into the classroom using technology. Combined with the co-teaching by the international teacher team, we could achieve the following objectives...

Meaningfully
intercultural

Offer more Meaningful intercultural experiences for students. Helping students develop intercultural competence (skills that facilitate effective and appropriate interactions with people from other cultures).

Internationally
connective

Offer more International connective experiences for students. Supporting students in dialogues, collaboration., and learning with their learning peers across time zones, language differences, and geographical distance.

Interactive social
learning experiences

Offer more Interactive social learning experiences for students, most importantly – exploring them from different cultural perspectives. Facilitate students who exchange common learning interests and purposes with peers from another country.

The K-12 stage is the enlightenment stage for cultivating students' intercultural competence.

The K-12 stage is the enlightenment stage for cultivating students' intercultural competence.

  • In the era of globalization, educating the younger generation to become global citizens with intercultural competence has become a critical goal for many countries.
  • The competencies required to succeed in a multicultural environment are challenging to teach in traditional classrooms. Research shows that experiential learning is one of the most effective approaches to acquiring intercultural competence.
  • The K-12 stage is crucial for cultivating students' intercultural competence. However, considering the characteristics of students at this stage, particularly those in elementary and junior high school, many lack the opportunity, resources, or independence to engage in intercultural experiential learning activities such as study abroad programs, short-term study tours, or international travel.
  • For K-12 students, studying in school is often the primary way to explore, experience, and learn about different cultures, enhancing their intercultural competence.

What is valuable for the successful implementation of Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) in K-12?

  • Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) is a pedagogy that uses technology and courses to connect two or more classes in different locations under the guidance of educators. Students could obtain opportunities for international exchanges and enhance their intercultural competence within such a learning environment.
  • Implementing COIL in K-12 could provide a diverse environment that promotes intercultural communication among students from various countries. Through this engagement process, students participate, learn, and build communities with others who are both similar and different from themselves. As a result, they can learn from and about diverse cultures, enhancing their intercultural competence.
  • Students can engage in learning and interaction with peers from different classrooms. This takes place within the familiar environment of their classroom, alongside their classmates, and under the guidance of their teachers. And implementing thematic courses based on the COIL framework can provide a meaningful learning experience for all students.
What is valuable for the successful implementation of Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) in K-12?
Dr. Yu-Chen Huang

Dr. Yu-Chen Huang

Fulbright Program Scholar
  • A seasoned educator, scholar, and school leader in Taiwan.
  • A practitioner passionate about leveraging technology for meaningful learning and innovative teaching.
  • An expert is skilled in designing and managing educational programs for global collaboration and intercultural learning.
  • A facilitator who is energetic in promoting COIL implemented in K-12.
More about Dr. Yu-Chen

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