Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) programs connect students at campuses in two or more different countries to investigate global realities from a cross-cultural perspective through asynchronous (e.g., digital forums) and/or synchronous (e.g., Zoom meetings) digital engagement. As many scholars have noted, COIL collaborations between institutions. COIL collaborations between institutions in differing cultural contexts have several benefits, including: (1) students use outside knowledge to create and assess posts in online discussion forums (Beckmann & Weber, 2016); (2) students are provided an international perspective on the course content (Rubin, 2017); and (3) they are often afforded the opportunity improve second language skills (Kasper & Weiss, 2005). In this article, the authors describe an online COIL collaboration between an English as an Second Language (ESL) class at the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) of the City University of New York and a first-year writing course at the University of the Bahamas (UB). They have found that even though the language proficiency levels might be different between the two classes, COIL collaborative activities foster the development of writing skills, oral presentation skills, as well as critical thinking.