The National University Telecommunications Network (NUTN) awarded the UCI OpenCourseWare project, naming Gary Matkin, Dean of Extension, Summer Session and Distance Learning, and Larry Cooperman (wait – that’s me) as recipients of their 2011 Innovation Award. NUTN is a well-known university-based organization dedicated to the support of distance learning.
With the NUTN award, Dean Matkin and I join Professor Michael Dennin (Physics and Astronomy) and lecturer John Crooks (Music) as recipients of awards related to OpenCourseWare. As the previous post mentions, we’re even reaching popular culture – Randy Jackson, of American Idol fame, listed Crook’s courseware, part of the Musicianship 15A-B-C series, as a free course that could be part of “your own personal school of rock.”