Community colleges were already sharing courses within regionally focused groups such as Texas’s DigiTex (run by Acadeum), MarylandOnline’s Seat Bank and New Mexico’s SUN Online. The new consortium would apply the concept at a national level, said Joshua Pierce, Acadeum’s CEO and co-founder. More than 300 U.S.-based schools are currently listed as members of the League.
Acadeum is behind several other regional and nationwide course-sharing efforts, including the Council of Independent Colleges’ Online Course Sharing Consortium, which formed in 2018 and features four-year schools. While the concept has been around for decades, it is not as developed among community colleges as it is in other segments of higher ed, Pierce said.
