13 October 2006 //
UC Irvine joins the OCW Consortium

The University of California, Irvine has joined the OpenCourseWare Consortium and expects to launch their OCW site in the first half of 2007. Initial courses are expected to focus on science and math for teachers and personal finance planning. For more information on the UC Irvine OCW initiative, please contact Kathy Tam at ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ).

The University of California, Irvine is a top-ranked university dedicated to research, scholarship and community service. Founded in 1965, UCI is among the fastest-growing University of California campuses, with more than 24,000 undergraduate and graduate students and about 1,400 faculty members. The second-largest employer in dynamic Orange County, UCI contributes an annual economic impact of $3.3 billion.

The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than 100 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open educational content using a shared model. The mission of the OpenCourseWare Consortium is to advance education and empower people worldwide through opencourseware