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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the benefits of an international academic project based on a collaborative online learning (COIL) experience. In addition to the online learning experience, the students worked on a challenge-based learning methodology with the objective of making them addressing a social issue of the real world. The project chosen for the students’ international learning experience was, at the same time, oriented and supportive to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #4 “Quality Education”. It incorporated a case study centered on an NGO based in Mexico called “Reinserta”, devoted to develop educational and academic programs for minors living in juvenile detention centers or jail.
The purpose of this international digital experience was threefold. First, the international and multicultural learning the students will experienced by teamworking with foreign classmates. Second, the usage of technology and digital platforms for the students to accomplish the communication and academic tasks requested at each stage of the project. Third, to embrace the aim of an ONG supporting a social cause which most of the times is not visible, or fades away easily, for University-College students.
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This work and Coil were possible due to the collaboration of the ONG “Reinserta”, we appreciate their participation and support, and Ricardo Lyle, Global Classroom project coordinator at Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico.
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Uribe-Bravo, E., Hernández-Zelaya, S.L. (2023). An International Digital Learning Experience: The “Reinserta” Challenge. In: Auer, M.E., Pachatz, W., Rüütmann, T. (eds) Learning in the Age of Digital and Green Transition. ICL 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 633. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26876-2_14
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