The National University Telecommunications Network (NUTN) awarded the UCI OpenCourseWare project, naming Gary Matkin, Dean of Extension, Summer Session and Distance Learning, and Larry Cooperman (wait – that’s me) as recipients of their 2011 Innovation Award. NUTN is a well-known university-based organization dedicated to the support of distance learning. With the NUTN award, Dean Matkin […]
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200 attend OpenTextbookEvent (live and virtually)
The recent UCI OpenCourseWare forum on Open Textbooks was a success from several points of view – attendance, substantive discussion, and, hopefully, a new impetus toward authoring and adoption. Eric Frank, President of FlatWorld Knowledge, a for-profit open text publisher, described a business model where authors do better by the fourth quarter of sales and […]