Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) is an educational methodology that fosters online intercultural learning experiences among universities in different countries. As a pedagogical approach, COIL offers reciprocal exchanges for faculty and students, and it is identified as one of the pillars of the MSU Spartan Global Learning Initiative.

Learn about COIL and COIL-based opportunities to engage with Canadian university partners at this introductory Zoom webinar sponsored by the MSU Canadian Studies Center. 

The Center will also host a COIL training webinar for interested core faculty members on February 7 from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm via Zoom.

Please email the Center to RSVP for either webinar at csc(at)msu.edu. 

More information on our website: canadianstudies.isp.msu.edu. 
 

Canada-Spaces of Change: Highlights of the 2025 ACSUS Conference in Seattle, WA

Part of the 2024 Midwest Canadian Studies Network Webinar Series

Sara Beth Keough

Professor of Geography

Saginaw Valley State University

Friday, January 24, 2025, from 12 – 1 pm (EST) via Zoom

Zoom Link: https://msu.zoom.us/j/96968102062  

Please join the Midwest Canadian Studies Network for an interactive session previewing the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS) 27th biennial conference on the theme “Canada: Spaces of Change” in Seattle, Washington, November 13 – 16, 2025. Led by ACSUS’ president-elect, this event will be of interest to students and faculty interested in attending the conference, as well as those interested in Canadian studies in general.

Sara Beth Keough is the current Vice President and President-elect of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS).  Her research has focused on urban planning in research-dependent communities and internal migration in Canada, particularly between Newfoundland and Alberta. Sara Beth was a Fulbright Scholar in Niger, and she has published extensively on water access, economies of water, and material cultures of water in West Africa. She holds a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Tennessee and is Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography at Saginaw Valley State University.

For questions about the webinar or Midwest Canadian Studies Network, email Mitch Goldsmith at goldsm40(at)msu.edu.

Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) is an educational methodology that fosters online intercultural learning experiences among universities in different countries. As a pedagogical approach, COIL offers reciprocal exchanges for faculty and students, and it is identified as one of the pillars of the MSU Spartan Global Learning Initiative.

Join the MSU Canadian Studies Center for a step-by-step training webinar where you will learn how to incorporate COIL with Canadian partners into your teaching. 

Please RSVP to the Canadian Studies Center at csc(at)msu.edu. 

More information on our website: https://canadianstudies.isp.msu.edu/