Introducing the Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) Model to Georgia State: A Conversation with Jon Rubin – International Center Global Presentation Series (GPS) 2016

International Center Global Presentation Series (GPS) 2016
Introducing the Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) Model to Georgia State: A Conversation with Jon Rubin
Friday, November 11th from 12 – 1pm
International Center, Dahlberg Hall, Room 350

Presentation by Professor Jon Rubin, Director, SUNY COIL Center
Interviewed by Dr. Tony Lemieux, Director, Georgia State University Global Studies Institute

Live Video Streaming on Periscope
Join us at Periscope.TV/GSUOII

Jon Rubin is the Director of the SUNY Center for Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL), which is a unit of the State University of New York’s Office of Global Affairs. He has also recently directed the National Endowment for the Humanities funded: COIL Institute for Globally Networked Learning in the Humanities, which has engaged 22 U.S. and 26 international universities in developing collaborative, shared, networked classrooms. He was Professor of Film and New Media at SUNY Purchase College where he developed a Cross-Cultural Video course in which SUNY students co-produced videos over the Internet with students in Turkey, Lithuania, Mexico, Belarus, and Germany. His own films have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art and at the Whitney Museum in NY. As a media artist he is best known for his Floating Cinema, a choreography of media images moving across the water at night. He has received Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Arts, Ford Foundation and Fulbright fellowships.