Yesterday’s NPR Morning Edition show featured a piece on telemedicine and how it allows people who live far from their doctors to receive care. With the lowered cost of laptops, webcams, and internet availability in most homes and medical offices, many people are now in a position to access care remotely instead of having to […]
Archives for June 2011
With Immigration Reform Back on the Radar, Check out UCI Law School’s Immigration Symposium
Yesterday in the Unites State Senate, a comprehensive immigration reform bill was introduced. This legislation was overshadowed by the revelation that Pulitzer Prize award winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas has been living in the US as an undocumented immigrant. With all of the media buzz about the immigration issue, it is a good idea to […]
A Primer in Big Pharma Business + Partnerships for the Greater Good
This week we acquired a great lecture for UCI OpenCourseWare in our growing Public Health collection, Public-Private Partnerships for Health: Social experiments to integrate ethics and profits, by Dr. Sherri Treasurywala of the Paul Merage School of Business. In the lecture, Dr. Treasurywala explains the big pharmaceutical drug business model and how the pursuit of […]
Larry Cooperman Participates in Open Learning Debate at eLearning Africa
A few weeks ago, the sixth eLearning Africa conference was held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The focus of this year’s event was youth, skills, and employability and how to best deliver knowledge on the continent. Larry Cooperman, the Director of the UCI OpenCourseWare project, was one of the keynotes speakers. Information and communication technologies are […]