Education-Portal.com to Announce Winners of OCW People?s Choice Awards
Education-Portal.com to Announce Winners of OCW People’s Choice Awards
Mountain View, CA (PRWEB) August 15, 2011
Education-Portal.com is honoring best free educational resources on the web with its first-ever OpenCourseWare People’s Choice Awards. Winners will be announced beginning August 15.
As the cost of traditional higher education continues to rise, it is important for students and self-learners to have viable alternatives for education. OCW materials from top universities such as MIT, Johns Hopkins and the University of Michigan are available online at no cost to the user. Education-Portal.com believes that OCW and the Open Education Movement is the future of higher learning and the key to making education accessible to all. To highlight the best of these free online resources, Education-Portal.com created the first-ever OCW People’s Choice Awards, where anyone could nominate and vote for their favorite open educational resource.
Over 4000 voters selected a winner out of three finalists in each of these categories. Visit Education-Portal.com’s Education Insider Blog at http://eduport.al/ldfcLL or the Education-Portal.com Twitter feed at http://eduport.al/jjscBP to find out who won:
Most Accessible: winner announced August 15
Most Innovative and Avant-Garde: winner announced August 15
Best User Experience: winner announced August 16
Best Emerging Initiative: winner announced August 16
Best Student Participation: winner announced August 17
Best Video Lectures: winner announced August 17
Best Instructional Supplement: winner announced August 18
Most Interactive: winner announced August 18
Best OER (non-video): winner announced August 19
Most Open: winner announced August 19
Voters were encouraged to leave comments about their favorite initiatives. These comments highlight the engaging quality and education value of OCW materials:
“It is enabling academics to distribute and disseminate resources globally and contribute towards Africa’s economic development through education. Moreover, the resources are free.” About African Virtual University OER
“Professor Dennin applies physics to our everyday interactions in the world and makes his students interested in learning the ‘why’ in addition to the ‘what.” From Brittany Salbato about Science to Superheroes to Global warming, UC Irvine
“I voted for this because it is such a great idea! The increasingly high cost of textbooks can be an additional barrier to students who are already struggling financially to get a college education.”From Maureen White about College Open Textbooks
Education-Portal.com is proud to highlight the most innovative, exciting and valuable initiatives that are improving access to education. The site’s next contest, the Education Resource People’s Choice Awards, will highlight the top tools for student success, including Best Study Guides and Best Test Prep Programs. Visit Education-Portal.com on August 22 to nominate your favorites.
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