Bob Page (center) pitured with IIGE faculty and staff members; Assistant Professor Elvita Wiasih (LEFT), IIGE Vice Director Prof. Keiko Ikeda (2nd from left), Associate Professor Don Bysouth (2nd from right), and IIGE Coordinator Michele Fujii (RIGHT). 

 

Queens University of Charlotte Director of Digital Projects Bob Page visited IIGE on Monday, July 1st to discuss plans for the upcoming second phase of COIL collaboration between Queens and Toyo universities.

 

Page attended a COIL workshop at Kansai University for the TeamUp Hybrid Exchange Program sponsored by CULCON in July 2018. We are thrilled to receive him a year later and to hear about the progress and future plans between the two universities.

 

Page met with IIGE faculty and staff members, provided a progress update and results of the first phase of Toyo and Queens universities' Spring 2019 COIL course, "Storytelling and the Olympics," and discussed the current state of the second phase collaboration for Spring 2020.

 

As part of this second phase, 36 Queens University students will partner with 24 Toyo University students for a COIL collaboration followed by two weeks of face-to-face collaboration in Tokyo during the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

 

"The visibility of the Tokyo Olympics provides an opportunity to generate academic research, papers and presentations that attract a high degree of interest from editors and readers. It could present a simple way of explaining COIL to audiences that have no familiarity with the subject. " - Bob Page

 

Page will present on the work between the two universities at the upcoming IVEC conference in October 2019 at the University of Washington at Tacoma, where Kansai University will also be attending to present in a panel presentation and action lab.