Roundtable session
COIL@UArctic is a new University of the Arctic thematic network designed to promote and facilitate Collaborative Online International Learning and biodiversity education across the Arctic region. In this session, the founding partners will present their work developing this new resource and explore through a roundtable discussion how it can be used to strengthen sustainability education and collaboration between colleges and universities within and beyond the Arctic region.
At Conestoga College, in her role as Associate Director, Global Initiatives and Partnership Development, Mariam works closely with the international office and the academic schools to plan, develop, and manage the expansion of quality outbound global initiatives for students and faculty, including education abroad programming, other academic partnerships, research partnerships, exchanges, virtual exchanges (COIL), and on-campus activities helping to internationalize the Conestoga Community.
She has completed my Doctoral studies at the University of Western Ontario in Educational Leadership. Her dissertation addressed the implementation of virtual global initiatives (COIL/VE) in post-secondary institutions. Mariam has spearheaded a institution wide COIL program at Conestoga, now in its second year. The COIL@Conestoga 2-yr pilot program will involve 26 faculty, over 900 students, and dozens of institutional partners from all over the world.
