The next OCWC webinar will be held on December 3rd at 10AM EST. We have Larry Cooperman, Director of the University of California, Irvine OpenCourseWare project, giving a talk on how to increase visibility of an OCW project. The UC Irvine has implemented a “hub-and-spoke” system of OCW distribution. Search engine optimization is partially accomplished through a network of Web sites that link back to the original OCW course hosted at UC Irvine. In this webinar, Larry Cooperman, Director of UC Irvine’s OpenCourseWare project will describe this architecture and some surprising results in terms of visibility. The webinar will also briefly review UC Irvine’s model for OCW sustainability.

The January webinar will be on metadata by Clay Whipkey of the OCWC, followed by a webinar on Moodle, given by Jenny Gray of Open University, UK. The OCWC webinars are held on the first Thursday of each month. If you are interested in participating in the webinar, please email your name and affiliation to feedback@ocwconsortium.org.