COIL and Red LUMINIE: Boosting educational internationalization in Latin America An interview with Jorge Matamoros

Abstract

In this interview, Professor Jorge Matamoros, COIL Coordinator at the Francisco Morazán National Pedagogical University (Honduras), presents a synthesis of the academic, cognitive, and socio-emotional benefits—as well as the gains in intercultural and workplace competencies—that Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) experiences afford both students and faculty. Embedded in regular courses jointly offered by two or more universities in different countries, these experiences enable instructors and students to work together on a shared theme and to devise solutions to concrete problems over the span of a few weeks. In addition, Professor Matamoros outlines the prospects of the new Latin American network LUMINIE for rigorously assessing the impact of COIL projects in the region.