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Collaborative Online International Learning

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Learning and teaching together and internationally

Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) projects have been taking place at Ruhr West University since 2020. COIL projects are courses created and held together with one or more foreign partner universities. The collaboration takes place either exclusively online or in blended-learning format, i.e. with short reciprocal visits.

COIL projects provide many students with a personal international experience and simulate the globalized professional world. In this way, they also reach students who, for a variety of reasons, are unable to spend an entire semester abroad. COIL projects also promote skills in the use of digital tools and media, foreign language skills and, of course, intercultural skills.

From 2020 to 2022, COIL was funded by the DAAD with the HRW Goes COIL project. The follow-up project COILintensify has been running since 2023.

COIL projects

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COIL Project in Automotive Electronics and Sensors

Faculty 4 , Institute for Mesuring and Sensor Technology

Lead: Prof. Klaus Thelen
Project partner: Wayne State University (Detroit, USA)

The "Automotive Electronics and Sensors Project" module is a compulsory module in the fourth semester for the Vehicle Electronics and Electromobility degree programme and an elective module for the Electrical Engineering and Mechatronics degree programmes. In this project module, student teams build an electronic control unit (ECU) for a vehicle according to modified manufacturer specifications (e.g. driver's seat, door with window regulator and rear-view mirror). In addition to technical skills and the development of personal skills such as results-orientation, a sense of responsibility and reliability, the focus is on promoting teamwork, cooperation and communication skills.

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COIL Project in Business Administration

Lead: Prof. Simone Roth
Project partner: Zealand Academy of Technology and Business (Zealand) in Næstved, Dänemark ; Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University (ETU “LETI”) in St. Petersburg, Russland; Universidad Finis Terrae (UFT) in Santiago de Chile, Chile

Butterfly is an extracurricular international project as part of a module that lasts around 6 weeks.In a combination of workshops, lectures and teamwork phases, the students pursue a problem-orientated teaching/learning concept, which is concluded in a joint project week.During this final project week, each participating university organises a day with tasks on a specific topic. The aim of this project is to promote 21st Century Skills, such as cross-national and cross-cultural collaboration, effective use of technology, problem-solving skills and communication in different teams. In addition, students deepen their knowledge of methods on various sustainability topics.

The project ran until 2022.

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COIL project in mathematics

Faculty 4, Institute of Natural Sciences

Lead: Prof. Klaus Giebermann
Project partner: Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece

This COIL-project focuses on the use of the award-winning MathWeb online platform, developed by Prof. Dr. Giebermann at Ruhr West. By participating in this project, students will be globally engaged at an early career stage and will expand new approaches to digital and collaborative education, learning mathematics in a more dynamic, interactive and motivating context. At the same time they develop a wide set of competences and skills of great value for their incorporation in the job market.

COIL at Ruhr West

What is COIL?

Collaborative Online International Learning projects are teaching projects that are carried out virtually together with one or more international partner universities.

In the blended-learning format, students get to know each other in person at the beginning and end of their project by visiting each other's university locations. During the lectures or seminars, they work together on their assignments in internationally mixed and virtually networked teams. 

 

Contact

If you have any questions or are interested in working with us, please contact: coil@hs-ruhrwest.de 

 

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