The global Covid-19 health pandemic, which is striking the world hard at this moment of writing and which is having a huge impact on student mobility, forcefully drives home the limitations of this predominant mobility model of internationalization (World Health Organization, 2019; Martel, 2020; Leask & Green, 2020).  COVID-19 and the future post-COVID higher education environment may be the tip-ping point to trigger large-scale adoption and implementation of Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL).