Short Films as a Learning Tool in a Global Health GSLC International Collaboration: Mexico and Colombia

This paper examines how short films could be a learning tool for online international experiences as COIL / Global Shared Learning Classroom (GSLC). We present our collaborative design experience and learnings from our second Global Shared Learning Classroom. This is a large-scale international experience that include more than 15 professors and almost 800 students from Mexico and Colombia. During our 6-weeks collaboration we use short films that could work as triggers for team discussions on the UN SDGs. Facilitating empathy, consciousness and inspiration were some of the results students mentioned from viewing the short films in relation to the UN SDGs. Short films were part of a collaborative synchronic activity. Most of the students that did not successfully finish the collaboration did not deliver their last activity that worked as a closure through a short video with their reflections and thoughts about the GSLC work.