Thursday, December 5, 2024 /Internationaler Online Collaboration at TU Berlin: COIL und Virtual Exchange - Experiences, Perspectives and Exchange

• 12:15 - 1:15 p.m. | Panel discussion

• 1:15 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. | Time to exchange ideas over lunch with soup and pretzels

• 2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. | Workshop (World Café)

Please also let us know if you would like to participate in the workshop!

Lunch will be held in English! Workshops in English or German, as desired.

We look forward to your registration: wwb@zewk.tu-berlin.de

Internationaler Online Collaboration at TU Berlin: COIL und Virtual Exchange - Experiences, Perspectives and Exchange

Panel discussion:

Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) is an innovative teaching method that enables students from different countries to work together collaboratively. They gain experience engaging with topics from an interculturel and sometimes interdisciplinary perspective. These sessions can, for example, be integrated into existing courses. The TU Berlin and the BeCOIL team offer comprehensive support for this.

During this Lunch für gute Lehre, we will introduce the COIL method and provide insights into how it is implemented at TU Berlin. In the panel discussion, our speakers will share their experiences with COIL projects, including the organizational process, added value, and challenges.

Workshop:
The subsequent workshop will be conducted as a World Café. Participants will engage in discussions at three tables, addressing topics relevant to implementing COIL as well as to courses involving intercultural collaboration or online teaching.

(1) Reflecting on intercultural communication, diversity, and inclusion using case studies and identifying solutions

(2) Exploring the COIL Toolkit: Integrating virtual exchange into your own teaching

(3) Designing, testing, and reflecting on icebreakers and collaborative activities for synchronous and asynchronous sessions

Heike Müller is a researcher at the Institute of Vocational Education and Work Studies (Fachdidaktik Arbeitslehre) at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. She has a background in education, home economics, content and language integrated learning and media education.
Since 2019, the teaching-research project “Virtual Exchange in Nutrition and Consumer Education” has facilitated virtual exchanges between Lao students from the Food Science Faculty at Savannakhet University (SKU), Laos, and teacher training students in vocational education at TU Berlin. The focus of the virtual exchange is on global and local issues related to consumption, production, and sustainable development, which the students address using methods such as digital storytelling and inquiry-based learning. The teaching is accompanied by research on the approach.

Jamie-Scott Baxter, Dr.-Ing., is an architect-planner and sociospatial researcher with a focus on urban natures. At the intersection of design and science, Jamie coordinates the “Planetary Tactics for Cohabitation" lab within the BUA project "Re-Scaling Global Health. Human Health and Multispecies Cohabitation on an Urban Planet" at the chair for Urban Design and Urbanisation (IfA, Fak VI, TUB). In this constellation, he jointly coordinates the sub-project "The Health Effects of Biophilic Urbanisms: Planning with Pathogens in the United Kingdom". Together with Laura Kemmer, he coordinates the project “Designing with the Planet. Connecting riparian zones of struggle in São Paulo, Jakarta and Berlin” (South Designs Initiative, Swiss National Science Foundation) in which a COIL was conducted.  He is PI on “Planetability”, a 2-year DAAD-CAPES funded project that brings together planetary health and multispecies cohabitation discourses between Brazil and Berlin. And he currently coordinates the Planetary Health Ambassador Program at TU Berlin. Additionally, Jamie is joint executive editor at Architecture and Culture.