This summer, we’ve retooled our website. Across the top line of tabs, you’ll now see “collections” and “lectures” in addition to courses and (course) materials. We have begun to arrange some of the growing sets of courses, lectures and materials into obvious buckets, such as “Sustainability.” This collection includes a list of courses and lectures […]
Public health collection grows rapidly
Social Ecology Professor Oladele Ogunseitan’s Graduate Seminar in Public Health has now spawned a series of publicly-available, reusable video lectures within the OpenCourseWare collection. To get there, click on the video lectures button on the right side of the home page and select any of the titles of interest under “Graduate Seminar in Public Health.” […]
UCI OpenCourseWare in video lecture pilot
Professor James Nowick’s Organic Chemistry 51A and Professor Michael Martinez’s Education and Cognition in Educational Settings courses will be the first two fully videotaped courses to be presented on the new portal. VideoLectures.net is developing a set of advanced services for video ranging from automatic transcription to recommender services. UCI’s OpenCourseWare project was selected to […]
Did you miss Dean Chemerinsky’s First Amendment in a Multicultural Society talk?
Don’t worry. You can view it at here: http://ocw.uci.edu/courses/course.aspx?id=95.
UCI Video Lectures added to OpenCourseWare
If you haven’t looked at the course list recently, you may be surprised to see that there are some 13 seminars available as video lectures on the site. We also have two full courses available at UCI’s iTunes U (OpenCourseWare section): Prof. Martinez’s: Cognition and Learning and Prof. Nowick’s Organic Chemistry course.
Iraq reconstruction: topical course joins OCW
What policy makers should know about the present conflict. What you should know, too. We’re pleased to have this course join the collection.
Three new computer science courses go live
Professor Max Welling has added three new courses to our OpenCourseWare collection: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Kernel-Based Learning. We’re particularly interested in these areas, because they are really important to how the web gets searched. Take a look!
Open Textbook site boasts 200+ textbooks
There is a disclaimer that many of the texts listed have not been vetted, so use with care, but nevertheless this effort is in full swing in the California Community Colleges. See the discipline-specific listing here: http://oerconsortium.org/discipline-specific/
Hewlett Foundation Awards Grant for UCI’s OpenCourseWare Initiative
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS158886+15-Sep-2009+BW20090915
Anthropology 135A: Religion and Society
Dr. Sheila O’Rourke’s course materials for Anthropology 135A: Religion and Social Order are now posted on the OCW site. UCI students and faculty, as well as the general public, can view it here.