Dean of Continuing Education and OpenCourseWare Consortium Treasurer Gary Matkin has been featured in an interview on Academy of U. In the two part interview, Dean Matkin discusses a variety issues related to OCW including course models, sustainability, and the future of online education. You can view the interview here: part one and part two.
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New website debuts
This summer, we’ve retooled our website. Across the top line of tabs, you’ll now see “collections” and “lectures” in addition to courses and (course) materials. We have begun to arrange some of the growing sets of courses, lectures and materials into obvious buckets, such as “Sustainability.” This collection includes a list of courses and lectures […]
UCI Video Lectures added to OpenCourseWare
If you haven’t looked at the course list recently, you may be surprised to see that there are some 13 seminars available as video lectures on the site. We also have two full courses available at UCI’s iTunes U (OpenCourseWare section): Prof. Martinez’s: Cognition and Learning and Prof. Nowick’s Organic Chemistry course.
Open Textbook site boasts 200+ textbooks
There is a disclaimer that many of the texts listed have not been vetted, so use with care, but nevertheless this effort is in full swing in the California Community Colleges. See the discipline-specific listing here: http://oerconsortium.org/discipline-specific/