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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Affordable College Textbook Act is introduced in the Senate
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., have introduced the Affordable College Textbook Act in the Senate on Thursday. The bill creates a grant program to support the creation and adoption of open educational resources at institutions of higher learning across the country. In a statement, Durbin said, “Over three years ago, I worked to […]
UCI Receives Award for OpenChem Project
UCI has received a distance education innovation award today from the National University Technology Network (NUTN) for its OpenChem project at the NUTN conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. OpenChem offers free and open access to the undergraduate chemistry curriculum at UC Irvine. You can view the OpenChem materials here. “It is an honor to have […]
Melissa Loble of UCI Distance Learning Center Interviewed by Hybrid Pedagogy
Melissa Loble, the Associate Dean of Distance Learning at UCI, was featured on Hybrid Pedagogy, discussing “The Walking Dead” MOOC. Check out the interview here.
“Walking Dead” MOOC seeks to attract zombie series fans
UCI is developing an eight week MOOC (massive open online course) with AMC to appeal to fans of the zombie themed television show. The eight week course, titled “Society, Science, Survival: Lessons from AMC’s ‘The Walking Dead,” will be free and open to learners around the world. The course features faculty members in social sciences, physics, […]
Professor Dele Ogunseitan shares his OpenCourseWare experience
Professor of Public Health and Chair of the Department of Population Health & Disease Prevention, Oladele (Dele) Ogunseitan, has been a long time supporter of UCI’s OpenCourseWare program. Last year, he was the recipient of the OpenCourseWare Leadership Excellence (ACE) Award for his effort in raising the profile of UCI’s free and open education site. Professor Ogunseitan agreed to […]