Collaborative online international learning (COIL) is a recently developed form of education that promotes globallearning between colleges and universities from different countries around the world. With the aid of modern technologysuch as the Internet and videoconferencing, students from schools in different countries can41their learning withpeers of different cultural and language backgrounds. This is also an affordable way of international learningthrough42students can establish friendship with people of similar age and learn together without having to spendmuch money going abroad in order to do so. As the word, collaborative, indicates, this is a pedagogy that focuses ona student-centered approach of learning with teachers playing merely the role of43. They need to build up asounding collaboration by developing44learning strategies and activities that can boost students' motivationin learning and their willingness to learn with and through each other. Through modern technology such asvideoconferencing, students could discuss topics that are of interest to them and communicate with each other cross-culturally. This is one fruitful way of gaining one's own global literacy and cross-cultural45. That is the reasonwhy some universities in both the United States and Japan play an active role in encouraging this kind of learningworld-wide.