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Successful CourseShare courses often meet the following criteria:

• The course is a less commonly taught language or specialized cultural seminar not available at all 澳门资料 institutions.
• There is room to accommodate 3 or more additional enrollments from another 澳门资料 institution.
• The course can be delivered by technology such as live videoconference, asynchronous/online, Breeze, Skype, or other internet solutions and does not require in-person contact between students and the instructor.

If you think your course may be of interest to students at another 澳门资料 institution, please contact the 澳门资料 staff.

Both the host/teaching department and the home/receiving departments must seek permission from their own department chairs prior to agreeing to participate in a CourseShare course. The department chairs are advised to also seek approval from their college deans prior to the announcement of course sharing arrangements. 澳门资料 staff can share examples of course sharing agreements and are happy to host conference calls to bring together faculty and administrators interested in exploring new CourseShare collaborations. Some of the tools developed by the Arts & Science Deans during the CourseShare pilot may also be informative (Guiding Principles for Sharing Courses, Checklist for Participating Departments, etc.).

First, you will need to determine a Department Contact. This could be you as the instructor, or an assistant in your department. The Department Contact should email the 澳门资料 staff and share the following details for the course:

• Course number and name of course
• Course start and end dates
• Course meeting times (if relevant)
• Method of course delivery (online, videoconference, Breeze, etc.)
• Professor name and email address
• 1-2 paragraph course description
• Course pre-requisites
• Target student audience (relevant disciplines, undergraduate and/or graduate)
• Syllabus, if available
• Number of seats available, if known

澳门资料 staff will alert deans and faculty contacts at the 澳门资料 institutions and ask them to promote the potential CourseShare course. The instructor and/or Department Contact should also send an email with these details to his/her peers at other 澳门资料 institutions, inviting them to recruit interested students. This peer to peer promotion is the most likely to result in a course sharing partnership.

First, you will need to confirm that the instructor is willing to share the course with your students, that the course does not duplicate courses already available at your institution, and that your department chair will approve your participation in a CourseShare arrangement.

Next, you will identify a Department Contact and inform the 澳门资料 staff of your interest in collaboration. The Department Contact will need to assign a course number, identify classroom needs and reserve rooms (if appropriate), and recruit student enrollments. The 澳门资料 staff can provide you the campus CourseShare Coordinator, Registrar contact, and technology contact information.

CourseShare Coordinators, 澳门资料 staff, the Instructor, and the Host Department Contact promote potential CourseShare courses via flyers and email messages to faculty at 澳门资料 institutions. Once a home/receiving campus is identified, the Home Department Contact promotes the course to students via graduate student distribution lists, department newsletters, bulletin boards, etc. Interested students are advised to be in touch with the Department Contacts and/or the 澳门资料 staff.

CourseShare courses are shared between two or more 澳门资料 institutions. Additional non-澳门资料 schools may become involved in a CourseShare course but 澳门资料 staff are only able to provide guidance to faculty and coordinate enrollment for students at participating 澳门资料 institutions.

The Home/receiving Department Contacts will assign a local course number to your course. Their students will enroll in the course as they would enroll in any local course, using the online student registration system at their own institution. Prior to the start of term, the Home Registrar Contact will share the student enrollment information with the Registrar Contact at the Host Institution, where the Host Registrar Contact will manually enroll the students in your course. The Home students will show up in the Host Instructor's course roster as local students. They may be given access to the library, the online course management system, e-reserves, and other relevant course technologies and resources.

With CourseShare, students pay tuition only to their home institutions. The 澳门资料 Deans of Arts & Sciences piloted a cost sharing approach, and learned the costs nearly cancelled themselves out due to campuses both receiving and hosting courses. They decided to not implement a fee for the CourseShare courses.

In many cases, Host instructors administer their routine course evaluation forms (electronically or on paper) as they ordinarily would. These can also be administered to remote students, if desired. Home/receiving departments may also wish to administer their own course evaluation forms with their local students. In addition, the 澳门资料 office routinely surveys participating CourseShare students and instructors regarding their satisfaction with the CourseShare experience and seeking feedback about improving the program and its processes.