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Research against injustice
Professor Charis Kubrin (Criminology, Law and Society), together with graduate student, Adam Dunbar, have designed a set of three experiments to test assumptions in the criminal prosecution of rap artists based on lyrics. They propose to test stereotypes about rap music, assess the relationship between rap and race in criminal case, and assess the impact […]
UCI OPEN celebrates OpenEducationWeek, releases open-source software
We are pleased to announce OEWeb, #opensource #OER #OCW website software. The software that powers our website and tracks licenses, authors, and more, will be available in GitHub this week. Stay tuned for more details or come to our #OpenEducationWk webinar on Thursday, March 10th, 8am PST. Check on the event here: http://goo.gl/Bg8vGC. https://lnkd.in/bv4q6SX
Amazon Education Enters the OER World
Amazon recently announced Inspire, a platform for open educational resources (OERs) that is in beta testing and expected to be released to the public in a few months. (See the article on EdWeek’s Market Brief site for more information.) Inspire reportedly will allow users to upload, manage, and share content with a user interface having many of […]
Where do our visitors come from?
Google Analytics provides a ton of interesting data about our website (uci.open.edu) visitors. Some of it can be quite surprising! In this blog post, we’ll look at where our visitors come from, based on their IP addresses. Which country is in the number one spot? There is no surprise here; it’s the United States with 19,608 […]
The Role of Open Education Resources in Peer Learning
Peer learning refers to a pedagogical practice in which learners (students) come together formally or informally in order to share their knowledge of a given subject and help each other attain specific educational goals. The notion of peer learning is certainly not new but has been gaining visibility more rapidly with the advent of online […]
Announcing UCI OPEN – http://open.uci.edu
When MIT OpenCourseWare began as a project, the announcement that their “materials organized as courses” would be available to the entire world, sent shock waves throughout the world of education. However, today, “open education” is much more than static materials. Some of the biggest advances are in the world of learning sciences, software engineering, […]
Unintended but Welcome Consequences of Using Open Resources
At this year’s Open Education Conference in Vancouver, Canada, there were several sessions on how the use of OER led to”better” learning outcomes for students than the use of “paid-for” textbooks and other materials. Needless to say, this is certainly a nice conclusion for supporters of the open education movement! However, is it really true […]
Instructional Design and Open Educational Resources
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 […]