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Featured Lecture
Discovery of a Lifetime: F. Sherwood Rowland and the Ozone Layer
The Libraries announced the opening of a significant new exhibit, "Discovery of a Lifetime: F. Sherwood Rowland and the Ozone Layer" on Friday, November 18, 2011 in Langson Library. The exhibit celebrates the research contributions of world-renowned atmospheric scientist F. Sherwood "Sherry" Rowland, 1995 Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry, and UCI Donald Bren Research Professor of Chemistry in Earth System Science. This special evening with F. Sherwood Rowland featured a talk by Ralph J. Cicerone, President of the National Academy of Sciences and Chancellor Emeritus, UC Irvine, along with special remarks by current UC Irvine Chancellor Michael V. Drake, M.D. View LectureFind a Course
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OCW Blog
President Obama to Request Funds for Math and ScienceToday President Obama announced that he would request $80 million in new government funding to enhance math and science education in the US. The administration’s goal is to train 100,000 specialized teachers to help product 1 million more American graduates in science, technology, engineering and math during the next ten years.
UCI OpenCourseWare already has materials to assist teachers in passing the CSET exam, which is required to teach math and science in California public schools. Test preparation courses include subjects ranging from algebra to molecular biology. Click here to view our CSET resources.
Saylor Foundation Releases New College Textbooks
The Saylor Foundation, an open education non-profit, has begun to release the first wave of free college textbooks that have undergone editing and peer review. The latest textbook is Mathematical Analysis I, but all of the most common subjects taught at the university level will have corresponding free textbooks available at the end of the second wave of their project. Purdue University has already adopted the Mathematical Analysis text for one course.
The Saylor Foundation incentivizes authors by awarding up to $20,000 for textbooks in exchange for the use of an open license. Details can be found here.
Are you a UCI professor or lecturer who is looking into contributing to the Saylor initiative or who is interested in using its textbooks? We’re interested in hearing your story. Please give us a call at 949-824-9976 or email us at ljcooper at uci dot edu.
Open Education Week to Highlight Open Learning Opportunities
Open Education Week, March 5-10-, 2012, was launched by the OpenCourseWare Consortium and endorsed by UNESCO and a large number of universities and university consortia worldwide. Its goal is to create greater awareness of the many free learning opportunities not only for current students, but for those who would not otherwise have the opportunity. The open education movement seeks to marry educational access and opportunity to learners worldwide free of cost. UCI OpenCourseWare is an important project within this movement and has grown to include nearly 80 full courses as well as hundreds of hours of video lectures. To celebrate Open Education Week, we are providing a 24×7 scheduled webcast of classes, seminars, and events originally presented by UCI professors and lecturers and invited guests.
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