The specifics from there are somewhat scarce, but the provosts created a list of principles that should guide such an initiative.
“Ensure clarity about the purpose of the collaboration, including developing more effective and engaging online teaching and learning, through collaborative action and analysis, promoting the reputation of CIC and its member schools, enabling future federation of courses by adopting standards for course development and delivery,” the provosts listed.
They implored the universities to acknowledge that the collaboration would require a long-term commitment, a sizeable investment from each school and for administrations to “change the way it has always been done.”
The issue paper also poses a series of questions that will need to be addressed before the project gains any more momentum. Among them: can CIC universities actually develop, and share the costs of, the needed technologies or will they still have to contract with external partners?
That, and many other questions, remain unanswered in the early stages of the collaboration, but the paper concludes with a confident appraisal of the CIC’s abilities to create the network.
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