Written by: John Villasenor
Published by: The Chronicle of Higher Education
MBA News Digest Comment: None.
Extracted Content: For colleges, two things about the fall of 2020 are now abundantly clear. First, much — and perhaps nearly all — instruction will be provided online. And second, colleges are experiencing unprecedented financial shortfalls. That’s why it’s all the more notable that there’s almost no discussion of a solution that could help broaden education access in an online world: a major ramp-up in instructional collaboration across colleges. While the idea of intercollege instructional collaboration for in-person classes isn’t new (for example, Boston-area colleges have multiple cross-registration agreements), the large-scale shift to online learning makes it more timely and important than ever.