SUNY COIL Conference 2018

This talk reflects on seven years of experience developing, implementing, and institutionalizing an experimental collaborative, online international graduate course involving partner STEM research institutions in the Netherlands and United States. A unique feature of the course is that grad students have used distance/ virtual communication technology also in service as group externs for a third-party, international client organization. The talk reviews the initial aims, design and implementation of the jointly-developed course; identifies challenges and strategies for institutionalizing the course at the two universities; and explores prospects and challenges for further course and program development, as the institutions continue to expand and generalize traditional and collaborative distance learning, in both real-time and asynchronous modes.