Abstract
The pedagogical practice implemented enabled the students, through dialogue and intercultural exchange, to acquire a global perspective of the different situations and problems encountered in each of their contexts. The work through the COIL methodology and the Design Thinking tool stimulated the development of skills focused on creativity and problem solving. This type of pedagogical practice enriches learning through the exchange of experiences, ideas, and knowledge from each of the disciplines involved in the process, contributing to professional and personal strengthening and development.
TopIntroduction
The academic crisis stemming from COVID-19 led universities to implement student-centered teaching and learning strategies. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) as a mediating resource for the design of new spaces for collaboration and communication, García et al. (2018) made it easier for teachers and students to continue the educational process. On the other hand, international online collaboration with peers made it possible for learning to be generated from a comprehensive and intercultural perspective, which is how alliances between universities were generated to strengthen the redesign of educational processes from a perspective of internationalization of the curriculum (Castiello-Gutiérrez et al., 2022).
In this context, the Universidad Católica de Manizales, Colombia, and the Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Chile, implemented the COIL (Collaborative International Online Learning) strategy. This methodology fosters international collaboration between educational institutions for two or more countries. The pedagogical experience described in this chapter presents the COIL methodology as a space for academic collaboration between universities that promoted active learning. Teachers and students developed and recognized their own and collective skills, abilities and aptitudes that portrayed a different vision of themselves and the world around them. In the pedagogical strategy, students played a leading role that favored learning in an environment of cultural and disciplinary interaction.
Therefore, this chapter aims to share the experience of the pedagogical practice implemented by two academics from the universities mentioned above, highlighting the importance of collaborative work from an intercultural and interdisciplinary framework, in which students from different professional careers were woven under the COIL methodology.
Key Terms in this Chapter
Design Thinking: Methodology used in the design process, which integrates cognitive, strategic and practical processes that develop creative thinking and generate solution proposals based on the user's needs.
Interculturality: Set of interrelationships that make up society, articulating cultures, ethnicities, languages, religious denomination and the various nations.
Empathize: Design thinking phase that allows you to identify how the user thinks and feels. Allowing you to find solutions that connect with your needs and wants.
Narrative: A literary genre that describes, orally or in writing, a real or fictitious event.
Prototype: A model created in the design process, to validate a solution proposal.
ODUCOIL: Online Collaborative Learning Program of the Organization of Catholic Universities of Latin America and the Caribbean (ODUCAL).
Critical Thinking: Ability to discern information through a process of analysis and evaluation.
ODUCAL: Organization of Catholic Universities in Latin America and the Caribbean, through its portal offers the possibility of finding peers to create international collaborative online learning projects.
Learning: The process that enables human beings to acquire or modify skills, abilities, and behaviors through experience, reasoning, and observation.
COIL (Collaborative International Online Learning): An innovative online teaching and learning methodology that offers a global and intercultural classroom experience.
Mirror Class: Curricular integration strategy that favors the teaching process in the field of internationalization, strengthening the bond between peers and creating learning communities.