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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 September 2021

Violeta Cotoman ,
Annabel Davies ,
Nanako Kawagoe ,
Hana Niihashi ,
Aisha Rahman ,
Yuki Tomita Open the ORCID record for Yuki Tomita [Opens in a new window] ,
Atsuko Watanabe Open the ORCID record for Atsuko Watanabe [Opens in a new window]  and
Felix Rösch Open the ORCID record for Felix Rösch [Opens in a new window]
Violeta Cotoman
Affiliation:
Coventry University, United Kingdom
Annabel Davies
Affiliation:
Coventry University, United Kingdom
Nanako Kawagoe
Affiliation:
Hosei University, Japan
Hana Niihashi
Affiliation:
Hosei University, Japan
Aisha Rahman
Affiliation:
Coventry University, United Kingdom
Yuki Tomita
Affiliation:
Hosei University, Japan
Atsuko Watanabe
Affiliation:
Kanazawa University, Japan
Felix Rösch
Affiliation:
Coventry University, United Kingdom
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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.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 55 , Issue 1 , January 2022 , pp. 188 - 192
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Political Science Association

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