A Review of a Collaborative Online International Learning Globalization has exacerbated the need for engineers who are capable of working in a crosscultural environment. Multinational companies continuously seek for engineers who are intercultural competent and capable of conducting business successfully in a crosscultural environment. However, the skills required to be successful in a multicultural environment are difficult to be taught in the traditional classroom. One of the most effective approaches to acquiring intercultural competence skills is through experiential learning. It is, therefore, not surprising that most colleges all over the world are devoting resources towards the internationalization of their classrooms and the campus community. This ensures that students are provided with a diverse environment so they can learn from, and about diverse cultures and develop their intercultural competence skills. Another effective approach is the study abroad programs, which require students to travel to different countries. However, these approaches require a lot of resources that may not be available to the poor and needy students. Therefore, a more costeffective approach, such as Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) is receiving a lot of attention in recent years. In this study, some engineering technology students participated in an 8week long COIL program with materials engineering students from different languacultural and geographical region. This study reviews the results and compares the performance of the COIL students with those who were not involved. It was observed that the COIL teams performed significantly better on the project work.

Investigating Soft Skills Development through Peer Reviews Assessments in an Entrepreneurship Course In this paper we present an approach to stimulate the development of soft skills in tertiary education students, which are seen as critical skills for active citizenship, personal fulfillment and employability in a knowledgedriven society. We developed an online learning setting where technical graduate students practice and gain knowledge on Innovation and Entrepreneurship themes. We present the early results of a peer assessment exercise where students submit assignments and evaluate other assignments made by their colleagues. We employ textual similarity measures and other effort related metrics to understand different learner types emerging in the exercise. Our results foster future directions of research on how soft skills can be studied in online environments. This study contributes to the ongoing debate on how to understand and visualize data coming from online courses and how to further the studentsxe2x80x99 assessment of soft skills development.