Larry Cooperman, Associate Dean for Open Education at UCI, was re-appointed to the board of directors of the African Virtual University this July. He joins a board that consists of vice-chancellors and rectors elected by a General Assembly of 35 partner universities across the five regions of the African continent. The board continues under the […]
Open Education
UCI Open to Present at Open Education Global in Krakow
UCI Open’s Larry Cooperman and Stefano Stefan will be presenting a talk entitled “Open Education Tool Development as Strategy” at this year’s Open Education Global conference in Krakow, Poland, on Tuesday, April 12, 2016. The presentation is part of the conference series “Open Education as Strategy,” and will describe how UCI Open is leveraging the […]
How do you choose your OERs?
I recently came across a research paper published in the Royal Society of Chemistry’s journal Chemistry Education Research and Practice entitled Integration of Open Educational Resources in Undergraduate Chemistry Teaching – a Mapping Tool and Lecturer’s Considerations (Feldman-Magor, Rom, and Tuvi-Arad; 2016) and since we are doing a lot of work with Open Chemistry here […]
OEWeb is Now Available on GitHub
OEWeb, UC Irvine’s open-source platform for hosting open educational materials on the web, is now available on GitHub. Click here to view and download the files: https://github.com/lmsasf/uci-open . Also, you can view a demonstration of OEWeb (from our March 10 webinar) here: https://youtu.be/drpKh_5NxPw.
Where do our visitors come from?
Google Analytics provides a ton of interesting data about our website (uci.open.edu) visitors. Some of it can be quite surprising! In this blog post, we’ll look at where our visitors come from, based on their IP addresses. Which country is in the number one spot? There is no surprise here; it’s the United States with 19,608 […]
Free Textbooks, Anyone?
One of the most important uses of Open Education Resources (OERs) at many universities is as a textbook replacement. Several universities have begun offering what some institutions call “z-degrees,” meaning that they require “zero” textbooks. OERs take the place of textbooks. Examples include Tidewater Community College, Northern Virginia Community College, Thomas Edison State College, and the University System […]
Open Education – Who is it For?
One of the original motivating factors for the Open Education movement was to allow less-developed countries with fewer educational resources to have access to quality course materials from the world’s best universities. However, anyone can benefit from Open Education – even learners within a developed country like the United States! Case-in-point: The Williamson Community Unified […]
MOOC? OCW? Which one?
What should I “do,” OpenCourseWare or a MOOC? While this is not a new question – there are plenty of articles and blog posts in cyberspace that address this – I thought I would make a few comments based on what we’re currently doing here at UCI, where we have both MOOCs (offered primarily through […]
Online Education Quality
Two important online education organizations, University Professional Continuing Education Association (UPCEA) and Online Learning Consortium (OLC), recently sent a joint letter to members of congress serving on two education committees regarding misconceptions about the quality of online education expressed in recent public statements. While the letter focuses on complete courses offered by universities and colleges, […]
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 […]