When public institutions work together and pool resources to address common curriculum and educational technology needs, there are many benefits. These collaborative projects can leverage collective expertise, generate efficiencies, and distribute workload and costs. This session looks at the findings from a two-year initiative in British Columbia, Canada, that investigated models and mechanisms for enabling this kind of institutional collaboration. We will explore key things that foster and sustain collaborative ventures as well as the structural barriers, and make a case for investing in open approaches on a system level, including open communities, technologies, content, and infrastructure.
Attendees of this session will be able to:- Describe the benefits of institutions working together on shared curriculum and technology projects.
- Define sustainment and describe considerations that play into sustaining collaborative projects, including open projects.
- Explain the benefits of open from a system point of view.
- Draw upon the lessons learned by existing collaborative initiatives.
