Last week in Bali, Indonesia, Larry Cooperman, the director of UCI’s OpenCourseWare program, was elected as President of the board of the OCW Consortium. Larry is currently serving his second term as a board member of the OCW Consortium. The OpenCourseWare Consortium is comprised of higher education institutions and associated organizations dedicated to expanding access […]
Larry Cooperman
The Internet and the Future of Higher Education: a TEDx talk by Larry Cooperman
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uWHMdMC8HQ[/youtube] “The Internet and the Future of Higher Education” was presented at TEDX Medellin on June 16, 2011. This talk argues that OpenCourseWare is a response the demand for higher education on an international scale. Just as distance education extended the reach of higher education to millions, open education has the promise of shattering social and […]
200 attend OpenTextbookEvent (live and virtually)
The recent UCI OpenCourseWare forum on Open Textbooks was a success from several points of view – attendance, substantive discussion, and, hopefully, a new impetus toward authoring and adoption. Eric Frank, President of FlatWorld Knowledge, a for-profit open text publisher, described a business model where authors do better by the fourth quarter of sales and […]