identifying a course type in an internal course catalog, wherein the internal course catalog identifies courses managed by a local learning management system and enables users to enroll in one or more of the courses managed by the local learning management system;

transmitting a request for an external course that is associated with the course type and referenced in a remote course catalog to a remote learning management system, wherein the remote learning management system manages a plurality of external courses and is accessible by a plurality of different local learning management systems;

receiving information associated with the external course from the remote learning management system, wherein the received information identifies at least a delivery method of the external course to allow a user of the local management system access to the external course provided by the remote learning management system; and

automatically updating the internal catalog with the external course using the received information such that users may select the external course from the up dated internal course catalog and enroll in the external course managed by the remote learning management system.