We can help you widen the international experience of all your students through methodologies such as COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning) and support you in co-teaching with your international colleagues. With experts from EU, USA, and Australia, we can also assist you in expanding your digital international campus presence and create a welcoming international online environment.

COIL Workshop Series:

Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) is the co-teaching of two or more teachers from universities in different countries who jointly deliver their courses. They provide the students with opportunities to gain international knowledge and to learn in an international classroom without the necessity of travel.

COIL workshop series provides academics with:

• Step-by-step guidance to set up and run COIL with their colleagues, 
• how to maximize cross-border online collaboration of students, and
• overcome the challenges of intercultural co-teaching.

Contact us if you would like to support your academics in “COIL skills”. 

Webinar: Digital Transitions: The Online Experiences of International Students

Digital environments are diverse across the world. Digital ‘traditions’ and ‘norms’ have formed very quickly in the last 2-3 decades with cultures impacting on the ways we engage online. Therefore, Universities need to also understand the biases of their own digital environments when they are hosting international students from all parts of the world. Research and practice have shown that often, international students might miss out on crucial information of success and wellbeing in host countries because of not making the essential digital transitions. This presentation highlights the differences in digital environments and argues that digital transitions are just as important as face to face orientations in preparing international students for their new University experience.

This professional development workshop series supports universities to:

• Support the readiness of universities to integrate International students. 
• Enable both Czech and International students to learn deeply and together.
• Enable all students to build 21st-century skills and thrive in interconnected world 

Workshop:  Intercultural Communication in the Classroom – No more Bubbles!

• Supporting intercultural learning of Czech and international students together
• Exploring Communication styles: my style v. my students’  styles 

How Cultural Orientations impact syllabus, classroom dynamics

Workshop: The Ideal Classroom – Engaging and Inclusive

• Introduction to the workshop series: Teaching for the 21st century
• Engaging and inclusive pedagogies
• Our dream classroom (Appreciative Inquiry)
• Reflecting on Who I am as a teacher.

Workshop: Embracing Diversity in the Classroom

• Who are my students?
• Embrace diversity and use it to gain a ‘diversity bonus’
• Navigating plurality and complexity

Workshop: Maximizing Collaboration and Active Learning

• Collaborative learning strategies
• Evaluating teamwork
• Tandem learning
• Challenges of Collaboration.

Upcoming workshop in collaboration with DZS, October 2024 (see news section)

Are you re-visioning your institution’s internationalization strategy or, despite your successful international (joint) degree programs, you know that some courses are untouched by international perspectives, especially those in the mother tongue? We have designed our own benchmarking tool that maps out the international dimension of university curricula. This assessment objectively defines which programs and courses are lacking international perspectives, identifies existing best practices that can be built on, and helps you plan a way forward. We have used our Benchmarking tool at Masaryk University, Charles University, and Palacky University to support internationalization at home and excellence in teaching and learning.
Inspect our Mapping Tool (PPT slides)

Mentoring for Leaders of Internationalization

Our world-leading experts in international education provide HE leadership with individualized mentoring in international education trends as well as assistance e.g. on how to design institutional internationalization strategy, or how to introduce new concepts such as Diversity-Equity-Inclusion or Internationalization of Curriculum. We are engaged in leadership positions in EAIE and regularly deliver keynotes and presentations for professional organizations such as ACA, and annual conferences of NAFSA, EAIE, DAAD, and the Czech National Agency.

Symposia on International Education Trends

Our team has experience with designing institutional and international symposia, conferences, and training to explain what is happening in international education at home and abroad and to facilitate the exchange of inspiring practices.