Accelerating

Course Development

Through Collaboration

Accelerating Course Development Through Collaboration

• Phil Moss Director of Educational Partnerships & Planning

MERLOT

• Lisa Pirinelli-Dubuc Teaching, Learning, and Technology Program

State University of New York

• Debra Runshe Assistant Director

Center for Instruction, Research, and Technology

Indiana State University

Engaging and Emerging Faculty Development Processes

MERLOT- System Wide Partner

Lisa Pirinelli-DubucSUNY Teaching, Learning, and Technology Program

• 64 Campuses (serve over 427,000 students)o University Centers (Doctoral Degree Granting)o University Colleges o Technology Collegeso Community Colleges

• over 100 online degree and certificate programs• 4,300 online college courses offered annually• 100,000 student enrollments from around the globe• 2,000 world-class SUNY faculty

www.sln.suny.edu

System Wide Faculty Development Initiatives and MERLOT

• SLN – New Faculty Development Training Program• SUNY Teaching, Learning and Technology Cooperative• Teacher Preparation Learning Commons - Undergraduate

teacher prep programs (NCCC Teacher Academy)• National Center for Academic Transformation/SUNY –

Course Redesign Initiative

SLN Faculty Development

SLN Faculty Development

SLN Course Design Process

ANGEL LMS

SUNY Preferred LMS Platform(30/64 campuses use ANGEL –supported by SLN)

TLT Cooperative

MERLOT workshops for faculty and faculty developerso Online courses for faculty

4 weeks MERLOT for faculty developers Teaching with MERLOT – for beginners MERLOT for Searching, Sharing, and Scholarship

o Webinar Series(1 hour sessions) ■ What on earth is a learning object and introduction to MERLOT? Personal Collections Webinar:Stop Searching and Start Sharing Personalizing MERLOT

■ Getting Involved- MERLOT and the Scholarship of Teaching

o Annual CIT conference –Workshop Is your glass ½ full? Enhance your teaching with MERLOT

o MERLOT Online Support – SUNY TLT Websitetlt.suny.edu

SUNY TLT Resources

http://tlt.suny.edu/MERLOTForFacultyDevelopers.shtml

Teaching Commons

• Create a MERLOT institutional teaching commons for teacher prep programs

• NCCC Teacher Academy- pilot campus

SUNY Course Redesign Initiative

Grants Awarded ($40,000/three-year)1. Buffalo State, Economics2. Canton, Basic Communication3. Canton, Biology4. Erie, Developmental English5. Fredonia, Spanish 1016. Niagara, Statistics7. Old Westbury, College Algebra8. Oswego, College Algebra9. Potsdam, History10.Stony Brook, Physics

The goal is to achieve improvements in learning outcomes as well as reductions in instructional costs by redesigning large-enrollment, multi-section courses using technology-supported active learning strategies.

Accelerating Course Development Through Collaboration

Accelerating Course Development Through Collaboration

MERLOT- Institutional Partner

Debra Dunlap Runshe, Assistant DirectorCenter for Instruction, Research, & Technology

Accelerating Course Development Through Collaboration

MERLOT and Indiana State University:• Laptop Campus• Course Redesign• Online Learning• Blackboard LMS• New Faculty

Accelerating Course Development Through Collaboration

Accelerating Course Development Through Collaboration

MERLOT Institutional Initiatives

In consultation with MERLOT partners, affiliates,

and interested institutions, MERLOT has identified

the major academic technology initiatives that are

strategic priorities for higher education.

Accelerating Course Development Through Collaboration

MERLOT Institutional InitiativesSupport institutions’ effective and efficient development of quality plans, implementations, and assessments through easy discovery of exemplary practices and reference resources

Accelerating Course Development Through Collaboration

MERLOT Institutional Initiatives• Showcase authentic institutional case studies for using

MERLOT in advancing an initiative.• Collect tools & processes that MERLOT partners can

adopt or adapt.• Provide evidence that the MERLOT services are helping

deliver expected outcomes and value.

•Academic Transformation  •ICT Literacy 

•Accreditation  •Institutional Repositories

•Better use of LMS  •Institutional Research on Technology Use 

•Developing Hybrid & Online Courses

•K-20 Initiatives

•Developing Online Degree Programs

•Laptop Initiatives

• Facilitating Graduation •Textbook Affordability

Accelerating Course Development Through Collaboration

Institutional Initiatives

Accelerating Course Development Through Collaboration

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