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, […]
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UC Irvine Professor Receives OpenCourseWare Leadership Award
Dr. Oladele Ogunseitan, UCI’s professor of public health and founding Chair of the department of Population Health and Disease Prevention at the is a recipient of the OpenCourseWare Leadership Excellence (ACE) Award, given by OpenCourseWare Consortium (OCW Consortium). Ogunseitan received the prestigious Leadership ACE award in recognition of his role in raising the profile of […]
UC Irvine Open Education TV Makes Top Story in the OC Metro Minute
OC Metro Recognizes UC Irvine’s Significant Contribution to Open Education Week.
UC Irvine OCW Receives 2011 Open Educational Quality Initiative Award for Institutions
The OpenCourseWare program at the University of California, Irvine was selected by an international jury pool as the winner of the Award for Institutions for The OPAL Awards 2011. The OPAL Awards, given to UC Irvine in Berlin on Dec. 2, recognize innovation in improving the quality of open education resources. The Open Educational Quality […]
UCI Receives Distance Learning Innovation Award for OCW Website
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 […]
Brief downtime for OCW blog and OCW website Saturday, August 13
Pardon our dust. The blog site has migrated to a new server and we were temporarily until 9:40am August 18th.
The Internet and the Future of Higher Education: a TEDx talk by Larry Cooperman
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uWHMdMC8HQ[/youtube] “The Internet and the Future of Higher Education” was presented at TEDX Medellin on June 16, 2011. This talk argues that OpenCourseWare is a response the demand for higher education on an international scale. Just as distance education extended the reach of higher education to millions, open education has the promise of shattering social and […]
UCI OCW Featured in Education-Portal.com
Dean of Continuing Education and Distance Learning Gary Matkin speaks with Education-Portal.com about the OpenCourseWare project. Click here to read it.
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 […]
Open Textbooks – a timely subject
Can open licensing of textbooks transform authoring, customization and student usage? Can it change the textbook publishing industry itself? These questions will be examined at our Open Textbook Forum on 1/26 at 4pm in AIRB-1030. And it is timely. See this NYTimes article. And don’t forget to register for the onsite or webcast forum: http://ocw.uci.edu/info/event.aspx.