The inaugural winners of the Awards for OpenCourseWare Excellence (ACE) in the Courseware category were announced at the 2011 OCWC Global Conference in Cambridge, Mass. on May 5. The awards category recognized outstanding course materials in “video and multimedia” and “text and illustrations.”
“The courses that achieved the ACE Awards this year are representative of some of the best work being done in the opencourseware (OCW) global community,” said Mary Lou Forward, Executive Director of the OCW Consortium. “They embody the commitment to open sharing that has allowed the movement to rapidly grow, and we are excited to recognize these higher education leaders for their accomplishments.”
The OCW courses selected for the 2011 ACE Courseware category include:
Video and Multimedia
- Vulnerability to Environmental Change by Gina Ziervogel, University of Cape Town (South Africa)
- Creole Language and Culture by Karen Richman, University of Notre Dame (United States)
- Avances Ecologicos Para la Sostenibilidad de los Ecosistemas Acuaticos Continentalesby María Rosario Vidal-Abarca Gutiérrez, Universidad de Murcia (Spain)
- Biotechnology Fundamentals, Osaka University (Japan)
- Quimica de los Materiales by Javier Pozuelo de Diego, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain)
Texts and Illustrations
- The Ancient Olympics: Bridging Past and Present, The Open University (United Kingdom)
- Sanitary Engineering by Prof.ir. J.C. van Dijk & Prof.it. F.H.L.R. Clemens, Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands)
- School of Webcraft, Peer 2 Peer University (Global)
- Algebra & Geometry, Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (United States)
- Operations Management by Daisy Escobar Arregoces, IE University (Spain)