The Practice and Research on the Development of University Curriculum Alliance from the Perspective of Self-Organization Theory

Abstract

University curriculum alliance is an inevitable trend of large-scale and fragmented online courses development to a certain stage. Through linkage, complementarity and group development, the university curriculum alliance achieves the goal of “win-win” and “symbiosis”. University curriculum alliance is an organization centered on the joint development and sharing of curriculum resources, and has typical self-organizing characteristics. How to use the self-organization theory system to guide the evolution of university curriculum alliance to develop orderly, to promote the deep integration of information technology and teaching, and to promote the re-optimization and reconfiguration of higher education resources, is an urgent problem that must be solved in the development of university curriculum alliance. After overviewing the present situation and researches on university curriculum alliance, this paper analyzes the influence of self-organization theory on the development of university curriculum alliance. Taking the practice of University Open Online Courses Alliance of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area as a case, which builds a course service platform, jointly builds online open courses, carries out inter-school and intra-school online open credit courses sharing, builds an integrated management mechanism, the paper proposes an integrated promotion model and overall solution for the development of university curriculum alliance, and promotes the sound and sustainable development of it.