Today UC Irvine announced its partnership with Coursera, the for profit company that was started by two Stanford computer science professors, to provide free online courses to students around the world. You can view UCI’s offerings on Coursera here, which include the following courses: • Public Health 1: Principles of Public Health • Fundamentals of […]
The Voting Wars by Professor Rick Hasen Now on UCI OCW
UCI Law School Professor Rick Hasen, an expert on election law, has a new book out titled The Voting Wars: From Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown. A lecture by the same title has been published on the OpenCourseWare site. Hasen’s work is frequenly cited in the media, and just this week, he penned […]
Please Vote for UCI OpenCourseWare for Education-Portal.com People’s Choice Awards
It’s that time of the year again, when Education-Portal.com prepares to award the People’s Choice Awards for online college course content. This year UCI OpenCourseWare is nominated for Best User Experience. You can vote for UCI OpenCourseWare by clicking on the icon below:
Upcoming Server Maintenance on Thursday, August 2
On Thursday, August 2 from 6:00 am to 7:30 am Pacific, the UCI OpenCourseWare site will be down due to server maintenance.
7/31/12 Video Restored to OpenCourseWare Site
Yesterday we were experiencing some technical difficulties and video could not play on the OpenCourseWare site. That issue has been resolved and video is now available on the site.
Updated 7/30/12: OCW Site Upgrade – Possible Down Time
This morning at 11 AM Pacific there was an upgrade on the OpenCourseWare site. If you experience any outages and cannot connect to the site, please contact us. Updated 4:10 PM Pacific, 7/30/12: Video assets on the OCW website currently are not displaying. However, non-video materials are available. Some videos can be viewed on our youtube, please click […]
2nd Annual Supreme Court Term in Review at UCI School of Law
This week the UCI School of Law held its second annual Supreme Court Term in Review, where the October 2011 term of the Supreme Court was analyzed by an all-star panel of legal experts including Dean Erwin Chemerinsky. The video is available on UCI OpenCourseWare. The first Supreme Court Term in review from last year […]
UCI OpenCourseWare Contributor Wins “UCI Medal”
UCI Distinguished Professor Elizabeth Loftus and OpenCourseWare contributor has been awarded the prestigious UCI Medal. This annual award is the campus’s highest honor. Loftus is noted for her research on false memories. View her lecture “Manufacturing Memories” here.
President Obama to Request Funds for Math and Science
Today President Obama announced that he would request $80 million in new government funding to enhance math and science education in the US. The administration’s goal is to train 100,000 specialized teachers to help product 1 million more American graduates in science, technology, engineering and math during the next ten years. UCI OpenCourseWare already has […]
Two Years After Devastating Haiti Earthquake, OCW Contributor Amy Wilentz Analyzes Recovery Efforts
Today UCI Professor and OCW Contributor Amy Wilentz appeared on Uprising Radio explaining what has gone on with the recovery efforts two years after the earthquake that left about a quarter million people dead and many more homeless. You can watch that clip here. But for more context, view her OCW lecture, Haiti: Dream and […]