ABSTRACT

The collaborative online international learning (COIL) course taught between University of Cincinnati (UC) and the Universidad de las Americas Puebla (UDLAP) was only one element of a multiyear transnational feminist collaboration involving multiple North American institutions. It is the focus of this chapter because the contributions arose from the shared experience of learning about and experimenting with the COIL model disseminated through the SUNY Global Center. This chapter examines some of pedagogical processes in this transnational feminist-networked course that either transgressed unjust borders or both. The COIL model enabled to extend the experiment of crossing national, social, political, economic, linguistic, identity, disciplinary, and institutional borders to advance feminist analysis of the new regionalism of 'North America' through virtual means. The virtual dimensions of transnationally networked learning also ensure that transnational feminist conversations not only can continue among participants beyond a given course but can also be extended to more and more students and faculty who cannot cross borders otherwise.