Un(COIL)ing the Pandemic: Active and Affective Learning in Times of COVID-19

Violeta Cotoman; Annabel Davies; Nanako Kawagoe; Hana Niihashi; Aisha  Rahman; Yuki Tomita; Atsuko Watanabe; Felix Roesch

doi:10.1017/S1049096521001050

Un(COIL)ing the Pandemic: Active and Affective Learning in Times of COVID-19

Violeta Cotoman, Annabel Davies, Nanako Kawagoe, Hana Niihashi, Aisha Rahman, Yuki Tomita, Atsuko Watanabe, Felix Roesch

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a global effect on higher education. Overnight, entire degree programs had to be moved online. Whereas this meant that teaching and learning in political science and international relations also went into “emergency e-learning” mode, as a recent teacher spotlight in PS: Political Science & Politics termed it, moving online also offered opportunities. One opportunity is collaborative online international learning (COIL) that enables students from universities in different countries to work on a common project. This article argues that working together collaboratively online not only mitigates the pandemic’s physical restrictions and sustains a global space of learning; it also provides for a particular active and affective learning in an intercultural virtual environment that substantiates classroom experiences even in post-pandemic higher education. To support this argument, this article reflects on the experiences of a British–Japanese COIL project that investigated political responses to COVID-19.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	188-192
Number of pages	5
Journal	PS: Political Science and Politics
Volume	55
Issue number	1
Early online date	13 Sept 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096521001050
Publication status	Published - 13 Jan 2022

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COIL
International Relations
International Relations Teaching
affective learning
Active Learning
Sociology and Political Science

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