COIL@UArctic Successful World Café at EAIE 2024
Mariam Raza (Conestoga College, Canada) and Izzy Crawford (Robert Gordon University, Scotland) delivered a world cafe session on the development of COIL@UArctic and using COIL to promote sustainability, with biodiversity loss education content supplied by Elina Oksanen (University of Eastern Finland), at the European Association for International Education (EAIE) Conference 2024.
COIL@UArctic is a new UArctic (University of the Arctic) thematic network that is designed to promote and facilitate Collaborative Online International Learning and Biodiversity Education across the Arctic region.
Two of the founding partners presented their work developing this new resource and explored through round table discussion how it can be used to strengthen sustainability education and greater collaboration between colleges and universities within and beyond the Arctic region. Delegates included internationally renowned COIL experts, COIL facilitators, virtual exchange professionals, and academic faculty.
The session received positive feedback from participants and generated some exciting new connections for the network.