The letter by Economics students from 65 organizations and 20 countries (International Student Initiative for Pluralist Economics http://www.isipe.net/) indicates that different types of Economic paradigms are not being taught except at a small number of educational institutions. It leads me to believe the solution may be in having different instructors from different institutions (with different ideologies) teach parts of the same course, and the students will gain from different perspectives. I have seen examples of cross faculty collaborations within the same institution, but inter-institutional collaborations are rare particularly in online courses such as MOOCS where many institutions presumably are protecting their brand. Institutional brand protection through limiting course delivery to academics from only one institution does not necessarily benefit the students. Some promising alternatives for institution independent collaboration can be found on Peer To Peer University (https://p2pu.org/en/), and Wikiversity (www.wikiversity.org/). Any others?
At IBAB (www.ibab.ac.in), students have been taught different life sciences, IT and other related topics from scientists/teachers from other organizations.
In our University we have experience of different academic tutors from partner colleges contributing to a degree programme delivered by the University. My experience of this form of pedagogy has been very positive. The programme is an early childhood studies degree that requires different speicalisms to come together if pedagogy is to be successful. This pedagogical approach appears to be a means of meeting the requirements of differentiated learners.
At Teachers College, Columbia University I have had an instructor who is an Associate Professor at another university teach a course as an adjunct. This was an online course and it was very successful. However, I must note that the instructor was an alum of Teachers College.
On another front, The George Washington University has partnered with other universities and colleges to provide students in their MPH program the opportunity to take courses elsewhere and transfer them in as electives. They accomplished this through coordinating partnerships with certain universities offering electives that a student might be interested in (i.e. health law).
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