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COIL Seminar Series 2025

COIL COIL Case Studies Teaching Development Grant

Event Details

Date : 5, 11 & 25 Mar 2025

Time : 12:30pm – 1:30pm (HKT)

Abstract

Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) is a cost-effective way of promoting internationalisation of teaching and learning through virtual exchange and teaching collaboration between tertiary institutions. This innovative approach develops students’ intercultural competence, global citizenship, and communication, collaboration and digital skills. With the mission to support teaching and learning, Teaching and Learning Innovation Centre (TALIC) is running a COIL seminar series in March 2025.

The seminar series is comprised of an introductory workshop on COIL framework and pedagogy and two sharing sessions of effective COIL practices in medicine, language, social sciences and business. With esteemed speakers from the University of Hong Kong (HKU), Monash University, and Nanyang Technological University (NTU), the series will inspire participants to design their own COIL courses and plan for a COIL proposal for Teaching Development Grant (TDG) application.

[5 Mar 2025] Introductory Workshop - Exploring international collaboration: A guide to COIL framework and TDG proposal development

Date : 5 Mar 2025 (Wed)

Time : 12:30pm – 1:30pm (HKT)

Venue : Learning Lab (RRS 321 Run Run Shaw Building, Main Campus, HKU)

Speaker : Dr. Jessica To, TALIC, HKU

Abstract

This workshop guides HKU colleagues to develop their first COIL course and COIL proposal for TDG application. It begins with an introduction to COIL framework and pedagogy, followed by advice about establishing collaboration with partnered institutions and designing pedagogical activities. It then discusses how to formulate a COIL proposal and how to avoid common pitfalls in the application process.

Exploring international collaboration: A guide to COIL framework and TDG proposal development

Dr. Jessica To is a Lecturer at TALIC, The University of Hong Kong. As the COIL co-ordinator of HKU, she promotes COIL to faculty colleagues and provides advice on COIL course design and implementation. With great enthusiasm in innovative teaching and learning, she led multiple education research and teaching development grant projects in Hong Kong and Singapore. At HKU, she was awarded the Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award (Team) for her productive use of exemplars in developing students’ understanding of assessment standards. Her expertise lies in higher education pedagogy and assessment for learning. Her publications appear in prestigious peer-reviewed journals such as Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, Higher Education Research and Development, and Teaching and Teacher Education.

[19 Mar 2025] Sharing Session 1 - COIL Case Studies from Medicine and Language

Date : 11 Mar 2025 (Tue)

Time : 12:30pm – 1:30pm (HK Time) / 3:30pm – 4:30pm (Melbourne Time)

Venue : Zoom

Speakers :

Professor Fraide Ganotice (Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, HKU) – Learning in alliance: The global Interprofessional Education at HKUMed
Dr. Howard Manns (Faculty of Arts, Monash University) – Stress, progress and reassess: Developing a COIL activity between Australian, Indonesian and Japanese university students

Facilitator : Dr. Jessica To, TALIC, HKU

Abstract

Following the introductory workshop, this session invites academics with substantial experience in COIL to share how they manage COIL practices and navigate implementation challenges. In the first sharing, Professor Ganotice will talk about the global Interprofessional Education at HKUMed and his collaboration experience with local institutions and School of Pharmacy, University College London. In the second sharing, Dr Manns will first review the administrative, practical and pedagogical challenges in setting the COIL activity up (“stress”). Then, he will outline how students engaged with the activity and report on their experiences – both positive and negative (“progress”). Lastly, he will discuss how to use the student feedback to improve this activity each year (“reassess”). Participants could interact with both speakers after their presentations.

Learning in alliance: The global Interprofessional Education at HKUMed

Professor Fraide Ganotice is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Bau Institute for Medical and Health Sciences Education at the LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong. He also serves as the Program Director for the global Interprofessional Education (gIPE) programme.

The gIPE programme at HKU is one of the largest of its kind in Asia, boasting extensive multi-institutional partnerships both locally and internationally. The programme has received significant recognition, including the Gold Award at the 2021 Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Reimagine Education Awards in the Hybrid Learning category, 2023 Teaching and Learning Strategy of the Year of Times Higher Education, and the 2021 Teaching Innovation Award (Team Award) by The University of Hong Kong. Find out more about the IPE programme from https://www.ipe.hku.hk/.

Stress, progress and reassess: Developing a COIL activity between Australian, Indonesian and Japanese university students

Dr. Howard Manns is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at Monash University. He is a member of the Online Intercultural Exchange (OIE) research cluster at Monash University. The OIE cluster is focused on fostering, developing and researching COIL activities on language and culture in the tertiary education space.

Beyond COIL, Dr Manns researches and teaches on language and culture, and what happens when people without the shared language and culture come into contact. His publications focus on Australian English, Indonesian and tactile Australian Sign Language.

[25 Mar 2025] Sharing Session 2 - COIL Case Studies from Social Sciences and Business

Date : 25 Mar 2025 (Tue)

Time : 12:30pm – 1:30pm (HK Time / Singapore Time)

Venue : Zoom

Speakers :

Dr. Michael Rivera (Faculty of Social Sciences, HKU) – Reflections on teaching consultancy, communication and cross-cultural competencies
Dr. Hoo Hui Teng (Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University) – Promoting students’ intercultural capabilities via Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL)

Facilitator : Dr. Jessica To, TALIC, HKU

Abstract

As the final event of the COIL seminar series, this session discusses COIL case studies from social sciences and business. In the first sharing, Dr Rivera will share his COIL experiences and strategies in the course “Global consultants: Policymaking for social impacts” in collaboration with the University of Birmingham. In the second sharing, using the example of Dr Hoo’s course “Cultural Intelligence”, she will share how NTU students collaborate with peers from Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India, to produce a podcast for COIL assignment. Participants could interact with both speakers after their presentations.

Reflections on teaching consultancy, communication and cross-cultural competencies

Dr. Michael Rivera is a Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Hong Kong’s Faculty of Social Sciences. In collaboration with HKU’s Common Core Office and the University of Birmingham’s Liberal Arts and Sciences programme, Dr Rivera co-delivered workshops on policymaking, communication skills and global consultancy in 2022 and 2023. He teaches a broad range of courses on human societies, social issues, history and wellbeing. He is currently engaged in pedagogical research projects looking into care-based and social justice-oriented education, as well as the importance of cross-cultural exposure for students.

Promoting students’ intercultural capabilities via Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL)

Dr. Hoo Hui Teng is a Senior Lecturer at Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University. She leads the Business School’s Assurance of Learning innovation which looks into pedagogies, assessments and feedback for effectual teaching and learning. Dr Hoo is a multiple teaching award educator and a recipient of several educational grants, including two NTU COIL grants in 2022 and 2024.

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