The Fundacao Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) and the University of California – Irvine announced the offering of free online courses as part of the UC Irvine Extension’s OpenCourseWare (OCW) initiative. Two new courses, an MBA course “Ethics in Portuguese” and “Training and Human Resources Development”, are offered at no cost in Portuguese as part of the partnership. The courses can be accessed at http://ocw.uci.edu/courses/.
Gary Matkin, dean of Continuing Education at UC Irvine, notes:
The sharing of free, high-quality courses between two higher education institutions with international reach will benefit students all over the world. Exemplifying the power of the OCW initiative, this partnership enables learners, no matter whom or where they are, to gain access to University-level courses. Also, since most educational material is shared from the Northern hemisphere to the Southern, this partnership provides us the opportunity to showcase high quality educational content produced in the vibrant countries of South America. The collaboration between UC Irvine Extension and FGV represents one of the first times that an international institution has created content for utilization by the United States – making it an early example of both cultural significance and educational pioneering.
