The COIL Grant provides direct support for faculty/staff at TIEC member institutions who design and facilitate new virtual international collaborations for undergraduate/graduate students.
In collaboration with your faculty partner abroad, you will use best practices in COIL design and student engagement to connect students from each institution through technology.
COIL activities should:
- Support regular course objectives while also enabling students to examine topics from varied cultural and societal perspectives.
- Use technology, synchronously or asynchronously, to support goals of student learning.
- Endure for a period of at least four weeks.
Because of the complexity and nature of COIL programs, this grant allows recipients up to six months for joint planning and design of the course prior to classroom implementation. The funds are budgeted per faculty pair and preference is given to proposals that incorporate faculty from at least one Texas and one affiliate institution.
TIEC operating council members at each institution have a directory of contacts at all TIEC institutions, and TIEC will also offer introductions, if needed, during the proposal development process. The funds will be disbursed as an overload payment in compensation for time developing and implementing COIL activities.
If a course is co-taught within one institution, the award for that institution may be split between the faculty members. As stated above, the award is intended to be shared between faculty at the partner institutions, but a singular institution’s share may also be divided between more than one faculty, as appropriate.
The application deadline for this grant is May 1st, 2023, for Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 courses. Please fill out the application below to be considered for this opportunity.
Selected participants will be required to complete TIEC’s Virtual Exchange Academy (4 weeks, 4 hours per week).
TIEC reserves the right to deny items in the budget that they deem as an improper use of funds.