Abstract: Under the background of building a “Three-wide education” pattern, innovatively promoting the collaborative education of “ideological and political courses” and “ideological and political education in courses” is the key to solving the issues of “what kind of people to cultivate”, “how to cultivate people” and “for whom to cultivate people”. Through questionnaire surveys and interviews conducted in universities in Shanghai, Anhui and Xinjiang, it was found that while the collaborative education of ideological and political courses and ideological and political education in courses has achieved certain results, there are still problems such as the need to upgrade and update the concept of collaborative education, weak linkage among the subjects of collaborative education, insufficient coordination of the content of collaborative education, and obvious imbalance in collaborative education. In response to these practical difficulties, countermeasures such as upgrading and transforming the concept of collaborative education, creating a diverse array of collaborative education subjects, integrating and coordinating the resources and content of collaborative education, and innovating the multi-dimensional evaluation drive for collaborative education are proposed.