We discovered that when we switched domains (twice!) in a very short time, we not only left the search engines and some of our users behind, but we also inadvertently broke some of the code and even images on which the site depends. Happily, we have just fixed it all. Please check the CSET collections […]
UCIrvineOCW YouTube channel passes 10000 subscribers
Okay, so we passed 9000 10000(!) subscribers. Along with a million minutes viewed per month, that is a large number of subscribers. Often a student will drop the subscription to a course playlist when they finish their own class. However, the ratio of subscribers gained to lost in a typical month is 10:1. So the […]
OpenCourseWare Consortium becomes Open Education Consortium
At its 2014 global conference in Ljubjlana, Slovenia, the OpenCourseWare Consortium announced the results of a ballot proposition to change its name. By a wide majority, the membership of the university-based organization changed its name to the Open Education Consortium. The reasons for the name change go beyond mere rebranding. As the open education environment […]
OpenChem transcriptions available soon.
The project to caption and transcribe OpenChem, supported by the California State University and the California Community Colleges, is underway. To see an example of its benefits, check out this YouTube video of a class lecture in the Chem 131C playlist. Chem 131C, Thermodynamics and Chemical Dynamics, was taught last year by Professor Reginald Penner, current […]
For best viewing, update Chrome v33 to v34
The home page wasn’t showing two principal text blocks for users with Chrome v33. Once Google updated it to v34, the problem disappeared. Chrome should update automatically, but I invoked the update to speed things up.
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 […]
The OpenCourseWare Consortium joins edX to expand access to high quality educational opportunities using openly licensed, modifiable content
The OpenCourseWare Consortium, with 300 institutional and organizational members, is joining edX to offer open educational resources of its members to the world in MOOC format. OCW Consortium members have collectively produced over 20,000 courses, all licensed for re-use and modification. The partnership with edX will develop these resources into openly licensed MOOCs, which will […]
One Million Minutes
Since last month, the UCI OpenCourseWare YouTube channel has been watched over 1,000,000 minutes during each of the prior 30 days. And while this pace should cool down over the holidays, it is a continuation of 10% month-over-month growth. One of the reasons is the changing composition of the newest courses. The Math 2 series, […]
OpenCourseWare Consortium Global 2014 Conference: Call for Papers is Open!
The 10th annual OpenCourseWare Consortium Global Conference will be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on April 23-25, 2014. The OpenCourseWare Consortium and the Knowledge for All Foundation are jointly organizing the event whose special theme is Open Education for a Multicultural World. We invite submissions of papers on all topics related to open education for the […]
OCW courses are experiencing a DNS issue
June 27, 2013. If you are using a bookmarked URL, please check for the course on our website using the courses menu. Our YouTube and iTunes U sites are unaffected. You can also use the lectures to find what you are looking for. If you are looking for OpenChem, it is available here. Please contact […]