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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.
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 […]
Open Textbooks – a timely subject
Can open licensing of textbooks transform authoring, customization and student usage? Can it change the textbook publishing industry itself? These questions will be examined at our Open Textbook Forum on 1/26 at 4pm in AIRB-1030. And it is timely. See this NYTimes article. And don’t forget to register for the onsite or webcast forum: http://ocw.uci.edu/info/event.aspx.
Webinar for California and Texas Promotes Open Textbooks
The drumbeat keeps getting louder textbooks that are financially accessible to all students. In the upcoming webinar, you can hear prominent open textbook advocates from the political, university and publishing sectors discuss the latest in this area – from legislation to university initiatives. Here is the webinar link – and the corresponding registration link here.
Open Textbooks: Gaining Traction
Today’s NY Times article, “$200 Textbook vs. Free. You Do the Math.” shows just a few of the growing number of open-license textbook projects. We are sponsoring a talk by one of those mentioned, Flat World Knowledge, in October. In the article, Eric Frank says that even though his company’s textbook’s are offered for free […]
New website debuts
This summer, we’ve retooled our website. Across the top line of tabs, you’ll now see “collections” and “lectures” in addition to courses and (course) materials. We have begun to arrange some of the growing sets of courses, lectures and materials into obvious buckets, such as “Sustainability.” This collection includes a list of courses and lectures […]
Public health collection grows rapidly
Social Ecology Professor Oladele Ogunseitan’s Graduate Seminar in Public Health has now spawned a series of publicly-available, reusable video lectures within the OpenCourseWare collection. To get there, click on the video lectures button on the right side of the home page and select any of the titles of interest under “Graduate Seminar in Public Health.” […]
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.