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MERLOT and Epsilen: Next Generation of Smart Repository Environment 1
MERLOT and Epsilen Collaboration in Developing Next Generation of Smart Repository Environment
Ali Jafari, Ph.D.Professor / Director, IUPUISorel Reisman, Ph.D.
Managing Director, MERLOT.ORG
2006 MERLOT International Conference (MIC06)Westin Ottawa and Ottawa Congress Centre
8-11 August 2006
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MERLOT’s LMS Initiative Epsilen Environment Project
Presentation Outline
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MERLOT Learning Management System Initiative
Three targets: Proprietary vendor systems Open source, community-shared/developed
systems New: Innovative LMS opportunities
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MERLOT Vendor Partners
Blackboard WebCT Desire2Learn Angel Learning
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Why Partner with MERLOT
Companies provide institutions content-free LMS infrastructure
Companies want outstanding reference examples of utility of their system over competition
Companies seek strategic alliances with content partners to demonstrate their product’s superiority
All MERLOT partners consider MERLOT a superior source of multi-disciplinary, high quality, academic content
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Why MERLOT Partners
MERLOT collection and services exposed to hundreds of thousands of higher education instructors/student worldwide.
Increased partnership possibilities Increased MERLOT membership Potential for significant growth of collection MERLOT is completely “agnostic” and above
board
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Partnership Goals
Partners Search MERLOT – basic and/or advanced Integrate search results into instructor-build
courses MERLOT
Directly “submit” materials into the collection
Other
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Open Source Opportunities
MERLOT seeks partnerships with open source initiatives as their popularity grows
Moodle & Sakai – meetings at MIC 2006
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Innovative LMS Opportunities
MERLOT is frequently invited to consider innovative partnerships
MERLOT assesses potential to evolve significantly electronic learning for our community
MERLOT invites such invitations We assess grant potential as a marker
of likely success Epsilen meets all our criteria
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Ali’s Presentation Outline
About CyberLab and Epsilen Next Generation of eLearning Model Understanding Epsilen Epsilen-MERLOT Demo Smart Learning Object Search Engine
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About CyberLab
CyberLab is a research and development laboratory within the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI Oncourse (1997-1999) ANGEL (1999-2000) Epsilen (2001-present)
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Next Generation of eLearning Environment
New Conceptual Idea New Technical Framework New Business Plan
See EDUCAUSE Review, July/Aug 2006
http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm06/erm0643.asp
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Epsilen
A “combo box” or “Swiss Army knife” of eLearning
Lifelong and Personal: ePortfolio CMS Repository Social Networking (academic and professional) Group collaboration Email, IM, SMS MyPortal Intelligent agent
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Epsilen
A “combo box” or “Swiss Army knife” of eLearning
Lifelong and Personal: ePortfolio CMS Repository Social Networking (academic and professional) Group collaboration Email, IM, SMS MyPortal Intelligent agent
Easy to use
Low Cost
Smart
Open Environment
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Epsilen Framework
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Epsilen – MERLOT Demo
www.epsilen.comFree registration
*.edu email is required to register* Out of USA institutions send request to
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Q & ATo obtain a copy of this presentation visit:
http://jafari.iupui.epsilen.com
Ali Jafari, [email protected]
Sorel Reisman, [email protected]
