Online Education
Inter-Institutional Sharing of Courses Online
Author: Ray Schroeder
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Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Education
A series of events has converged to put new impetus behind inter-institutional sharing of courses online. The COVID-19 pandemic, rapid deployment of remote learning, growth of MOOCs and mounting financial pressure on colleges and universities have combined to open minds on this topic. It is impossible to chronicle all of the course-sharing initiatives that are springing up almost daily around the world. As the pace of such sharing of courses and degrees across colleges in this time of COVID-19 is rapidly picking up speed, so also have the range of models among otherwise fierce recruitment competitors, who also happen to be affiliated universities.