Suppose you’re designing an online course. How might you use Open Educational Resources (OER)? Let’s take a quick look at a common model for instructional design – the ADDIE model. (There are many others but this one is very common and useful for our discussion.) A – Analysis: Identification and clarification of the instructional goals […]
MOOC? OCW? Which one?
What should I “do,” OpenCourseWare or a MOOC? While this is not a new question – there are plenty of articles and blog posts in cyberspace that address this – I thought I would make a few comments based on what we’re currently doing here at UCI, where we have both MOOCs (offered primarily through […]
Online Education Quality
Two important online education organizations, University Professional Continuing Education Association (UPCEA) and Online Learning Consortium (OLC), recently sent a joint letter to members of congress serving on two education committees regarding misconceptions about the quality of online education expressed in recent public statements. While the letter focuses on complete courses offered by universities and colleges, […]
UCI OCW Contributor James Bullock “excited” by Recent Astronomical Find
OpenCourseWare contributor and staunch supporter James Bullock (Professor of Physics and Astronomy at UC Irvine) was “pretty excited” by news that theoretical predictions he and a former graduate student made years ago were validated by recent observations of a galaxy in its early stages of formation. The observations were reported online in the journal Nature by Caltech astrophysicist Christopher Martin and […]
Two-Week Visit from Female Saudi Educators
This week and next, UCI Open Education Resources (a.k.a. OCW) and University Extension are pleased to welcome nearly 30 female faculty members from Saudi Arabia as part of the eLearning Pioneers Female Faculty Development Program sponsored by the Saudi Ministry of Education. This visit was arranged by the Open Education Consortium. During the visit, UCI will provide (1) facility […]