Larry Cooperman, Associate Dean for Open Education, was appointed to a third two-year term at the meeting of the General Assembly of the African Virtual University on September 5th. The African Virtual University provides pan-African distance learning curricula and other services. It currently has some 35 partner universities in 27 countries and is developing a joint computer […]
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UC Irvine’s OpenCourseWare has been nominated as part of Education-Portal’s 2012 People’s Choice Awards. UCI is nominated for the Best User Experience. Please vote for our initiative. For more information, email kstam@uci.edu.
UC Irvine OpenCourseWare Featured in May/June Issue of Change Magazine
Gary Matkin, dean of Continuing Education, Distance Learning, and Summer Session is featured on the cover of Change Magazine. The article is titled, “The Opening of Higher Education.” Click to read the complete article.
UC Irvine Professor Receives OpenCourseWare Leadership Award
Dr. Oladele Ogunseitan, UCI’s professor of public health and founding Chair of the department of Population Health and Disease Prevention at the is a recipient of the OpenCourseWare Leadership Excellence (ACE) Award, given by OpenCourseWare Consortium (OCW Consortium). Ogunseitan received the prestigious Leadership ACE award in recognition of his role in raising the profile of […]
UC Irvine OpenCourseWare Content Now Available on iTunes U
The UC Irvine iTunes U courses are: • PubHlth 200: Foundations of Public Health – This course, created by Dr. Oladele Ogunseitan, teaches participants with an overarching framework, principles, and core responsibilities of public health research, and offers the necessary foundation for advanced studies in public health. • Physics 20b: Introduction to Cosmology – The […]
25 Colleges and Universities Ranked by Their OpenCourseWare
Some of the world’s most renowned colleges and universities offer free courses to self-learners. This list ranks schools based on their OpenCourseWare. UC Irvine’s OpenCourseWare project is ranked #7. Read full article.
UC Irvine Open Education TV Makes Top Story in the OC Metro Minute
OC Metro Recognizes UC Irvine’s Significant Contribution to Open Education Week.
UC Irvine launches Open Education TV Channel
More than 144 hours of our best faculty lectures will be made available for free with the launch of a new UCI OpenCourseWare project called Open Education TV. The launch, which will allow viewers worldwide to follow video-taped classes, seminars and conferences at their convenience, coincides with the first annual Open Education Week scheduled for […]
UC Irvine Recognized for its Contribution to OpenCourseWare
Our OCW is featured in the December 19th edition of the OC Metro for winning the 2011 OPAL Award for Institutions. To read the story, visit this link.
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 […]