Melissa Loble, the Associate Dean of Distance Learning at UCI, was featured on Hybrid Pedagogy, discussing “The Walking Dead” MOOC. Check out the interview here.
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UCI Joins 16 Other Universities in Adding Courses to Coursera
Today UC Irvine announced its partnership with Coursera, the for profit company that was started by two Stanford computer science professors, to provide free online courses to students around the world. You can view UCI’s offerings on Coursera here, which include the following courses: • Public Health 1: Principles of Public Health • Fundamentals of […]
UCI OpenCourseWare Contributor Wins “UCI Medal”
UCI Distinguished Professor Elizabeth Loftus and OpenCourseWare contributor has been awarded the prestigious UCI Medal. This annual award is the campus’s highest honor. Loftus is noted for her research on false memories. View her lecture “Manufacturing Memories” here.
UC Irvine OCW Receives 2011 Open Educational Quality Initiative Award for Institutions
The OpenCourseWare program at the University of California, Irvine was selected by an international jury pool as the winner of the Award for Institutions for The OPAL Awards 2011. The OPAL Awards, given to UC Irvine in Berlin on Dec. 2, recognize innovation in improving the quality of open education resources. The Open Educational Quality […]
UCI OCW Content Recognized by Music Mogul Randy Jackson
By Kathy Tam Randy Jackson Next, Jackson’s personal website dedicated to discovering “What’s next?” in the arts and technology industries, recently mentioned University of California, Irvine OpenCourseWare course, “Introduction to Pitch Systems in Tonal Music”, in a web post titled, “Your Own Personal School of Rock.” Jackson lists “Introduction to Pitch Systems in Tonal Music” […]
UCI OCW Featured in Education-Portal.com
Dean of Continuing Education and Distance Learning Gary Matkin speaks with Education-Portal.com about the OpenCourseWare project. Click here to read it.
Dean of Continuing Education Gary Matkin Featured in Academy of U
Dean of Continuing Education and OpenCourseWare Consortium Treasurer Gary Matkin has been featured in an interview on Academy of U. In the two part interview, Dean Matkin discusses a variety issues related to OCW including course models, sustainability, and the future of online education. You can view the interview here: part one and part two.