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, […]
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Former Undersecretary of Education Martha Kanter to Receive OCW Award at Global Conference
As the 2013-24 Consortium president, I am particularly pleased to announce that Dr. Martha Kanter, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Higher Education at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and former U.S. Under Secretary of Education is the recipient of the OpenCourseWare Consortium’s President’s award for her commitment to access and […]
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 […]
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.