Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) for Critical Reading of Media: Collaboration between IIUM and Kansai University
This paper is aimed to discuss the possibility of Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) to develop skills and critical attitudes toward mass and social media. COIL is a “new paradigm” of online learning that involves classes from more than two countries in order to promote intercultur...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Kulliyyah of Languages and Management, International Islamic University Malaysia
2016
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/51720/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/51720/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/51720/1/51720_Collaborative_Online_International_Learning_%28COIL%29.pdf |
| Summary: | This paper is aimed to discuss the possibility of Collaborative Online International Learning
(COIL) to develop skills and critical attitudes toward mass and social media. COIL is a “new paradigm” of online
learning that involves classes from more than two countries in order to promote intercultural competence. While COIL
has great potential in solving problems of international/ intercultural misunderstanding, it is still less known in
Malaysia and the Muslim world. This study is an action research on the presenter’s educational activities in the course
of “Introduction to International Communication”. Both qualitative and quantitative data are collected through the two
COIL projects between Kansai University (KU) and International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). The first COIL
was conducted from March to May 2015 and the main theme was cultural stereotype in mass media. The second was
from September to December 2015 with a different course in KU and the main theme was the problems and
possibilities of social media. The students’ response shows that collaboration with students in other country gives
positive impact on their cultural awareness and critical viewpoint toward media. These experience led students to
reflect the characteristics of own society, culture and media usage. Such reflective view point is essential for critical
reading of information provided by mass media and internet. Even though the projects requires continuous
improvement, the possibility of COIL is not limited to cultural competence but also includes the media literacy in
general. |
|---|