Workshops designed to prepare and improve your COIL practice.
Ensure your COIL Collaborations have the greatest positive impact — whether you’re a professor planning your first COIL project, an experienced COIL instructor looking to improve, an administrator supporting the scaling of COIL at your institution, or the point person for COIL activities on your campus!

“I am in awe and grateful for all SUNY COIL has done so far to facilitate the COIL workshops, and the materials, and creating an inclusive environment. This learning process has been the most robust, efficient, and encouraging one I have ever had.”
Miki Yamashita, Ed.D.
Reitaku University, Japan

“COIL projects give me hope; despite the challenges of a rapidly changing world, students and educators are finding sustainable ways to navigate the unknown together as they foster connections and develop empathy with people who are different than themselves but share the same goals.”
Sydney Wallis Craig, MFA
Indiana University Indianapolis, USA

“COIL experiences invite students and educators to step beyond borders, embracing inclusion, confronting cultural differences, and building the global skills that employers value in today’s workforce.”
Paola Otero Gómez, Pharm.D.
Universidad CEU San Pablo, Spain
Getting Started
Get Your Seats
Workshop seats can be used by any individual at your institution and applied towards any of the 3-week workshops. Seats can be purchased individually or in packages of 6 or 12 for a discount.
Find Your Workshop
SUNY COIL workshops are designed to meet your unique needs, no matter where you’re at in the COIL process. See below for more information on our offerings to find the best workshop(s) for you!
Reserve Your Spot
Once you’ve found your workshop(s), complete the registration form to let us know you’re on board! We’ll reach out with additional information a few weeks before the workshop begins.

COIL Foundations
Learning Objectives
- Identify, examine and practice hands-on activities to consider how cultural identity connects to working together in student teams.
- Examine and practice reflective approaches to students working in teams, internationally.
- Analyze and create constructivist hands-on virtual exchange activities and projects, with a focus on projects that incorporate UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Format
FORMAT: COIL Foundations is three weeks in duration, conducted asynchronously, with one-hour weekly synchronous meetings. The one-hour meetings are full of activities for professors to emulate with their students and are recorded for those who cannot make a specific date/time. All SUNY COIL workshops are interactive and require 2+ hours of work per week.
SYNCHRONOUS MEETING TIMING: We do our best to accommodate the wide range of time zones of all participants who have signed up for any particular workshop. All participants will receive an availability survey a few weeks before each workshop begins.
If a large group from your institution will be participating in any one workshop, please feel free to send your group’s general availability to the SUNY COIL Center Staff Assistant, Katie Huntington, at katie.huntington@oneonta.edu in advance so that we can be sure to plan accordingly.
Workshop Dates
June 9 – 27, 2025
August 11 – 29, 2025
October 13 – 31, 2025
January 12 – 30, 2026
March 9 – 27, 2026
June 8 – 26, 2026
Fees
SUNY COIL GLOBAL PARTNER NETWORK MEMBER:
- 1 seat: $325
- 6 seat package: $1,740
- 12 seat package: $3,360
NON-MEMBER:
- 1 seat: $450
- 6 seat package: $2,400
- 12 seat package: $4,680
Click here to purchase a workshop seat or package, or contact the SUNY COIL Center Staff Assistant, Katie Huntington, at katie.huntington@oneonta.edu to receive an invoice. Purchased seats can be used by any individual at your institution (or partner institution) and applied towards any of our 3-week workshops. Accepted payment methods are credit card, check, wire transfer, and ACH. Please note that seats must be paid in full before registering for any workshop, and all seats must be used within one calendar year of purchase. If you are unsure if your institution has available workshop seats, contact your institution’s COIL Coordinator or email katie.huntington@oneonta.edu.
If you are interested in becoming a SUNY COIL Global Partner Network Member, click here to learn more. SUNY COIL Membership offers a wide variety of supplemental resources and networking opportunities, and can help you to make the most of your professional development experience.

COIL Elements
Overview
COIL opens a world of possibilities for active, applied, collaborative activities that interest and motivate students while invigorating your teaching practice. Making good design choices for your COIL Collaboration takes careful consideration and an open mind. Preparing students to work with peers in another country online can enrich the experience and help ensure its success.
The COIL Elements workshop explores what makes a compelling COIL Collaboration, roles of students and professors, online behavior, creating active student teams, matching technology choices to activity design, preparing students for COIL, and developing your COIL resource bank.
Learning Objectives
- Analyze, and design icebreakers and activities appropriate for asynchronous and synchronous virtual exchange curriculum.
- Review and reflect on virtual exchange best practices for COIL partner success.
- Explore student team approaches in preparation for facilitating successful international student teams.
Format
FORMAT: COIL Elements is three weeks in duration, conducted asynchronously, with one-hour weekly synchronous meetings. The one-hour meetings are full of activities for professors to emulate with their students and are recorded for those who cannot make a specific date/time. All SUNY COIL workshops are interactive and require 2+ hours of work per week.
SYNCHRONOUS MEETING TIMING: We do our best to accommodate the wide range of time zones of all participants who have signed up for any particular workshop. All participants will receive an availability survey a few weeks before each workshop begins.
If a large group from your institution will be participating in any one workshop, please feel free to send your group’s general availability to the SUNY COIL Center Staff Assistant, Katie Huntington, at katie.huntington@oneonta.edu in advance so that we can be sure to plan accordingly.
Workshop Dates
June 9 – 27, 2025
October 13 – 31, 2025
February 9 – 27, 2026
April 13 – May 1, 2026
June 8 – 26, 2026
Fees
SUNY COIL GLOBAL PARTNER NETWORK MEMBER:
- 1 seat: $325
- 6 seat package: $1,740
- 12 seat package: $3,360
NON-MEMBER:
- 1 seat: $450
- 6 seat package: $2,400
- 12 seat package: $4,680
Click here to purchase a workshop seat or package, or contact the SUNY COIL Center Staff Assistant, Katie Huntington, at katie.huntington@oneonta.edu to receive an invoice. Purchased seats can be used by any individual at your institution (or partner institution) and applied towards any of our 3-week workshops. Accepted payment methods are credit card, check, wire transfer, and ACH. Please note that seats must be paid in full before registering for any workshop, and all seats must be used within one calendar year of purchase. If you are unsure if your institution has available workshop seats, contact your institution’s COIL Coordinator or email katie.huntington@oneonta.edu.
If you are interested in becoming a SUNY COIL Global Partner Network Member, click here to learn more. SUNY COIL Membership offers a wide variety of supplemental resources and networking opportunities, and can help you to make the most of your professional development experience.
Registration
After purchasing your workshop seat(s), click here to register for an upcoming COIL Elements workshop.
If you are unsure if your institution has available workshop seats, contact your institution’s COIL Coordinator or email katie.huntington@oneonta.edu.

COIL Design
Overview
You’ve found your partner, you’ve considered your options, and now you’re ready to design your COIL Collaboration.
The COIL Design workshop will walk you and your teaching partner through each part of the development process. At the end of the workshop you should have a blueprint of your COIL Collaboration, ready for implementation.
Topics will include: COIL pedagogy and flow, developing common and course-specific goals, setting expectations for partners and students, logistical aspects, designing your COIL activities, assessment, and troubleshooting.
This workshop will bring together topics from COIL Foundations and COIL Elements and apply them to your particular COIL Collaboration. Both teaching partners should take the COIL Design workshop at the same time.
Members of the SUNY COIL Global Network may also participate in our Partnering Bulletin and/or Fair, which will help you find a COIL teaching partner to work with before you register for COIL Design.
Learning Objectives
- Develop protocol, including a logistics document for working with your COIL partner.
- Create team focused activities that empower student exploration of curricular and cultural concepts appropriate for international collaboration with consideration to providing guidance regarding language, and technologic inequities.
- Create assessments that empower student collaborations, with intentional focus to the UN Sustainable development goals as well as power dynamics, issues of equity in line with the colonial history of the global south and global north.
Format
FORMAT: COIL Design is three weeks in duration, conducted asynchronously, with one-hour weekly synchronous meetings. The one-hour meetings are full of activities for professors to emulate with their students and are recorded for those who cannot make a specific date/time. All SUNY COIL workshops are interactive and require 2+ hours of work per week. COIL Design is intended to be taken with your COIL partner.
SYNCHRONOUS MEETING TIMING: We do our best to accommodate the wide range of time zones of all participants who have signed up for any particular workshop. All participants will receive an availability survey a few weeks before each workshop begins.
If a large group from your institution will be participating in any one workshop, please feel free to send your group’s general availability to the SUNY COIL Center Staff Assistant, Katie Huntington, at katie.huntington@oneonta.edu in advance so that we can be sure to plan accordingly.
Workshop Dates
June 9 – 27, 2025
September 8 – 26, 2025
November 10 – 28, 2025
February 9 – 27, 2026
June 8 – 26, 2026
Fees
SUNY COIL GLOBAL PARTNER NETWORK MEMBER:
- 1 seat: $325
- 6 seat package: $1,740
- 12 seat package: $3,360
NON-MEMBER:
- 1 seat: $450
- 6 seat package: $2,400
- 12 seat package: $4,680
Click here to purchase a workshop seat or package, or contact the SUNY COIL Center Staff Assistant, Katie Huntington, at katie.huntington@oneonta.edu to receive an invoice. Purchased seats can be used by any individual at your institution (or partner institution) and applied towards any of our 3-week workshops. Accepted payment methods are credit card, check, wire transfer, and ACH. Please note that seats must be paid in full before registering for any workshop, and all seats must be used within one calendar year of purchase. If you are unsure if your institution has available workshop seats, contact your institution’s COIL Coordinator or email katie.huntington@oneonta.edu.
If you are interested in becoming a SUNY COIL Global Partner Network Member, click here to learn more. SUNY COIL Membership offers a wide variety of supplemental resources and networking opportunities, and can help you to make the most of your professional development experience.
Registration
After purchasing your workshop seat(s), click here to register for an upcoming COIL Design workshop.
If you are unsure if your institution has available workshop seats, contact your institution’s COIL Coordinator or email katie.huntington@oneonta.edu.

COIL Coordinator
Overview
COIL Coordinators are the point people for COIL at their institution. This designation requires Coordinators to be very knowledgeable about COIL and to know what resources, initiatives, and communities are available to support professors at their universities and their COIL partners.
The COIL Coordinator Workshop is designed to help Coordinators develop the tools and team they need to support COIL at their institution.
Topics include determining institutional assets that can support COIL, aligning institutional goals with COIL outcomes, cultivating a local team to align and support your COIL program, creating and supporting a cohort of professors and their international partner colleagues, preparing students for their COIL experience, and consider approaches to problem solving for when the inevitable issues arise.
Learning Objectives
- Determine the aligning institutional initiatives and campus partners to grow your institutional COIL program.
- Review and design an approach to supporting professors with all aspects of developing a COIL project including partnerships.
- Reflect on all aspects of marketing COIL to your institution focusing specifically in preparation for student involvement in your COIL program and COIL courses in accordance with the culture of your campus.
Format
FORMAT: COIL Coordinator is three weeks in duration, conducted asynchronously, with one-hour weekly synchronous meetings. The one-hour meetings are full of activities for professors to emulate with their students and are recorded for those who cannot make a specific date/time. All SUNY COIL workshops are interactive and require 2+ hours of work per week. Consider participating in this workshop with potential team members.
SYNCHRONOUS MEETING TIMING: We do our best to accommodate the wide range of time zones of all participants who have signed up for any particular workshop. All participants will receive an availability survey a few weeks before each workshop begins.
If a large group from your institution will be participating in any one workshop, please feel free to send your group’s general availability to the SUNY COIL Center Staff Assistant, Katie Huntington, at katie.huntington@oneonta.edu in advance so that we can be sure to plan accordingly.
Workshop Dates
June 9 – 27, 2025
August 11 – 29, 2025
January 12 – 30, 2026
Fees
SUNY COIL GLOBAL PARTNER NETWORK MEMBER:
- 1 seat: $325
- 6 seat package: $1,740
- 12 seat package: $3,360
NON-MEMBER:
- 1 seat: $450
- 6 seat package: $2,400
- 12 seat package: $4,680
Click here to purchase a workshop seat or package, or contact the SUNY COIL Center Staff Assistant, Katie Huntington, at katie.huntington@oneonta.edu to receive an invoice. Purchased seats can be used by any individual at your institution (or partner institution) and applied towards any of our 3-week workshops. Accepted payment methods are credit card, check, wire transfer, and ACH. Please note that seats must be paid in full before registering for any workshop, and all seats must be used within one calendar year of purchase. If you are unsure if your institution has available workshop seats, contact your institution’s COIL Coordinator or email katie.huntington@oneonta.edu.
If you are interested in becoming a SUNY COIL Global Partner Network Member, click here to learn more. SUNY COIL Membership offers a wide variety of supplemental resources and networking opportunities, and can help you to make the most of your professional development experience.
Registration
After purchasing your workshop seat(s), click here to register for an upcoming COIL Coordinator workshop.
If you are unsure if your institution has available workshop seats, contact your institution’s COIL Coordinator or email katie.huntington@oneonta.edu.

COIL Administrator
Overview
The COIL Administrator Workshop is for any staff supporting COIL at an institution, such as Deans, Teaching and Learning staff, Instructional Designers, International Educators, Department Chairs, etc. COIL Coordinators may also join this workshop, particularly if other administrators from their campus will be participating.
This workshop explores the responsibilities of each role in supporting successful COIL Collaborations, as well as reviewing considerations for scaling COIL at an institution.
Topics include strategizing about the campus infrastructure to support your COIL endeavor, creating approaches to identify and support teaching partnerships for COIL collaborations, designing engaging COIL activities focusing on the UN Sustainable Development Goals, reviewing technology criteria and tools for COIL, locating support and approaches to intercultural learning online and orienting students for COIL success.
Learning Objectives
- Explore opportunities, overlapping initiatives and campus staff that can support the growth of a COIL program in your institution.
- Reflect and practice creating engaging COIL activities that promote opportunities for students to connect across cultures and countries, to balance inequalities, and participate in decolonizing practices of communication considering language, translanguaging, UN Sustainable Development Goals and forms of inequities that appear in COIL projects.
- Create a strategy for supporting and scaling a successful COIL program at your institution.
Format
FORMAT: COIL Administrator is three weeks in duration, conducted asynchronously, with one-hour weekly synchronous meetings. The one-hour meetings are full of activities for professors to emulate with their students and are recorded for those who cannot make a specific date/time. All SUNY COIL workshops are interactive and require 2+ hours of work per week.
SYNCHRONOUS MEETING TIMING: We do our best to accommodate the wide range of time zones of all participants who have signed up for any particular workshop. All participants will receive an availability survey a few weeks before each workshop begins.
If a large group from your institution will be participating in any one workshop, please feel free to send your group’s general availability to the SUNY COIL Center Staff Assistant, Katie Huntington, at katie.huntington@oneonta.edu in advance so that we can be sure to plan accordingly.
Workshop Dates
September 8 – 26, 2025
March 9 – 27, 2026
Fees
SUNY COIL GLOBAL PARTNER NETWORK MEMBER:
- 1 seat: $325
- 6 seat package: $1,740
- 12 seat package: $3,360
NON-MEMBER:
- 1 seat: $450
- 6 seat package: $2,400
- 12 seat package: $4,680
Click here to purchase a workshop seat or package, or contact the SUNY COIL Center Staff Assistant, Katie Huntington, at katie.huntington@oneonta.edu to receive an invoice. Purchased seats can be used by any individual at your institution (or partner institution) and applied towards any of our 3-week workshops. Accepted payment methods are credit card, check, wire transfer, and ACH. Please note that seats must be paid in full before registering for any workshop, and all seats must be used within one calendar year of purchase. If you are unsure if your institution has available workshop seats, contact your institution’s COIL Coordinator or email katie.huntington@oneonta.edu.
If you are interested in becoming a SUNY COIL Global Partner Network Member, click here to learn more. SUNY COIL Membership offers a wide variety of supplemental resources and networking opportunities, and can help you to make the most of your professional development experience.
Registration
After purchasing your workshop seat(s), click here to register for an upcoming COIL Administrator workshop.
If you are unsure if your institution has available workshop seats, contact your institution’s COIL Coordinator or email katie.huntington@oneonta.edu.



