© MERLOT June 2007 ( Meital, Tel Aviv, Israel Dr. Sorel Reisman, MERLOT Managing Director

© MERLOT June 2007 (http://taste.merlot.org/Presentations/MERLOT_Meital_Address_2007.pdf) Meital, Tel Aviv, Israel

Dr. Sorel Reisman, MERLOT Managing DirectorProfessor, Information Systems, Cal State

[email protected]

MERLOTA Faculty Resource for Online

Teaching and Learning

http://www.merlot.org


Presentation Outline• MERLOT Basics • MERLOT Partners & metrics• Reaching Out – other libraries &

LMSs• A Quick Tour• MERLOT Communities


MERLOT Basics


• A free and open community for all who use, share, advise & evaluate online teaching & learning materials

• A free digital library of online teaching & learning materials and supporting faculty development resources open for all to use*

• A consortium of U.S. and Canadian higher education institutions, professional societies, digital libraries, corporations, and others supporting educational improvement through technology, worldwide

* MERLOT supports Creative Commons licensing philosophies through implementation of a set of CC licensing conditions for all materials posted/referenced on www.merlot.org

Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning & Online Teaching


Encouraging Teaching/Learning

Awards, letters and communication to deans, department chairs, faculty, etc. acknowledging:– Participation in MERLOT – service– Virtual Speakers Bureau - service– Acknowledgement of peer reviewed

learning material – teaching or research– 15% Solution – teaching or service– JOLT – research– MERLOT International Conference –

research– Newsletters: Partner & Community –

faculty development


Goal: To increase number of faculty who successfully use academic technology in higher education

Target: 150,000 of the 1 million faculty in NA certified as having demonstrated academic technology skills based on MERLOT criteria

Process: Track participation on MERLOT.ORG & automatically present awards

15% Solution


JOLT


Grapevine Newsletter


Vineyard Newsletter


MERLOT Int’l Conference


MERLOT Partners & Metrics


ExecutiveDirector

Staff

MIC

BoardMembers

ProjectDirectors

AdvisoryBoard

Corporations Consortia JOLTEditors

Members

The Community

16+

160+

18

5-10

25 25

8

47000


Partner Reserve* Material Categories

*Accessible only by staff, Project Directors, & Editors


Partnerships


MERLOT Metrics*

• MEMBERS– 47,000+ growing at 1,200/month

• Higher Ed faculty, administrators, K-12 teachers, students, workforce development (continuing ed)

• Student (Teachers) 12,000+ – Assignments – Comments – Portals for a place to find advice– Member Directory to find mentors & advisors

• MATERIALS– 17,000~– 2,300 ~ Peer Reviewed– 7,300 ~ in “Personal Collections”

*As of June 15/07


MERLOT Usage2003

July-Dec2004

July-Dec2005

July-Dec2006

July-Dec

Visits/month 22,824 30,110 46,355 55,725

Pages Viewed/visit

8 10 10 22

Time/visit 5:19 5:03 4:35 7:20

•New version released August 2006•2007 YTD Average - 67,500+ visits per month•152,000 LMS –based queries in 2006


Reaching Out


Related Libraries


Global Learning Objects Brokered Exchange


LMS Initiative Partners

Blackboard* - Optional MERLOT Search “Building Block”

WebCT* - Optional MERLOT Search “PowerLink”

Angel Learning* - Integrated MERLOT Advanced Search

Desire2Learn* - Integrated MERLOT Advanced Search

University of Toronto – UTutor - Integrated MERLOT Advanced Search

Epsilen Learning Environment – Integrated advanced and “semi smart” search

Second Life – developing project with University of Oregon*Resulted in 304 Campus Affiliate Memberships


A Quick Tour


Materials Cataloguedby General Category

Materials Cataloguedby Academic DisciplineWith Editorial Boards

Specific to Login Profile


Category with all Disciplines shown





MERLOT Communities






Workforce Development• Build collections and community

portals within MERLOT for “Workforce Development” (Continuing Ed) disciplines

• Fire Safety• Professional Coaching• Allied Health• Information Technology• Employability Skills


Workforce Development Community


Teaching Commons

–Form customized free/open communities for all who use, share, advise & evaluate online teaching/learning materials

–Built on MERLOT technology infrastructure

–Packaged, customizable structure



A Teaching Commons


Another Teaching Commons


Other Services & Initiatives


About Us


Thank You

http://www.merlot.org

Sorel [email protected]

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© MERLOT June 2007 ( Meital, Tel Aviv, Israel Dr. Sorel Reisman, MERLOT Managing Director