UC Irvine News Brief: Ogunseitan wins international OpenCourseWare award

The chair of UCI’s Program Public Health is honored for his role in raising the profile of the campus’s OCW site.

UC Irvine News Brief: UCI's OpenCourseWare initiative wins wide-ranging recognition

Just five years after launching the program – which makes high-quality, university-level classes available for free online – the university has captured five prestigious awards.

Professor Michael Martinez lecture on Open CourseWare

OpenCourseWare catching on among UCI faculty

Five years later, UCI’s OCW offerings have grown from just 10 complete University Extension courses to include contributions from 66 UCI faculty members, 50 complete courses, 70 video lectures and more than 1,000 learning assets.

Oladele “Dele” Ogunseitan

Oladele Ogunseitan is appointed UC Presidential Chair at UCI

Public health professor will promote interdisciplinary programs

Walking Dead MOOC professors

Academics take on zombies

Offered through Instructure, the free, eight-week MOOC will explore subjects related to math, public health, social science and physics

Professor James Nowick

A global ‘gift’

UCI’s free, online chemistry lectures open the classroom doors to all

Highlights of 2012 at UCI

Year brings scientific advances, national accolades, international outreach, student achievement and loss of campus stalwarts

Professor Daniel Stokols

Online course off to great start

Dan Stokols’ iTunes U course has drawn more than 150,000 subscribers since its debut in June

50 years of fulfilling dreams

UCI Extension to celebrate half a century of helping adults reach career, personal goals.

Gary Matkin

Lifelong learning

Award-winning dean of continuing education, discusses the unit’s evolving role in lifelong learning.