Goals

COHERE member institutions have agreed to leverage the shared values of the institutions and the critical mass of engaged faculty to enhance learning and teaching through technology and to move toward a stronger culture of professional collaboration and scholarship in educational practices.

COHERE was born from the shared intention to enhance offerings of high-quality Internet-based programs and to integrate scholarly values and culture into learning and teaching through technology. To that end, the COHERE partners have agreed to three inter-related domains of inter-institutional collaboration:

  1. Increasing flexibility and access in the post-secondary sector by establishing administrative processes to allow departments, colleges and program committees to integrate courses from other partners into their online programs.
  2. Defining shared educational principles and evaluation methods which reflect the research values of the partner universities.
  3. Encouraging collaborative planning and development of future, evidence-based online courses, programs, and learning objects.

Much of the work of COHERE members has been framed by the research and evaluation opportunities and the development of models for developing faculty expertise in the scholarship of “teaching” with learning objects.

Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, Volume 28(3) Fall / automne, 2002 The Learning Object Economy: Implications For Developing Faculty Expertise

    COHERE is an alliance of leading Canadian research universities, working together to improve access to online learning opportunities and to integrate online learning with our research culture and values.