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Mapping the Learning Space

New Orleans, LA

Colleen CarmeanNLII Fellow Information Technology Director, ASU WestEditor, MERLOT Faculty Development Editorial Board

Flora McMartinMERLOT, Director of Member Services and Evaluation

Ray PurdomDirector, University Teaching and Learning Center, UNC at GreenboroEditor, MERLOT Faculty Development Editorial Board

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MERLOT and NLII Partnership

New Orleans, LA

Our Shared Mission• To improve the efficacy of teaching and learning by expanding

the quantity and increasing the quality of online learning materials and services

Our Shared ValuesThe educational community must guide the development of

online resources and services to enable the success of education.

Successfully transforming learning, education, and trainingrequires collaboration.

Our Shared Constituencies• Our constituencies encompass teaching faculty, students, and

technology staff who support the teaching and learning process in higher education.

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NLII & MERLOT Collaboration

New Orleans, LA

Transforming Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

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NLII Key Themes

New Orleans, LA

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NLII Work Products: 2003

New Orleans, LA

• Forming Virtual Communities– Teaching and Learning– The New Academy– EPortfolios

• Exploring Learning Objects (Fall)• Researching Next-Generation Course

Management Systems (Spring Session)

• Doing Transformative Assessment (Summer)

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Faculty Development

New Orleans, LA

• Promotion of Learning Objects

• Pedagogy of Online and Technology-Enhanced Instruction

• Deeper Learning Research

• Course Management Systems

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Categorizing Current Issues

New Orleans, LA

• Deeper Learning

• Teaching Practices

• Design Implications

• Learning Activities

• Technology Uses

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Teaching Well Online:MERLOT’s

Faculty Development Initiative

New Orleans, LA

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Teaching Well Online (TWO)

New Orleans, LA

GoalTo support our partners’ faculty developers efforts to work with instructors who want to use, adapt or integrate computer based learning materials in their courses.

OutcomeDevelopment of a community of practice made up of partner faculty development experts and practitioners

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A Community of Practice

New Orleans, LA

• Focuses on a domain of knowledge

• Develops shared practice by interacting around problems, solutions, insights and building a common store of knowledge

• Accumulates expertise in the area - becomes a learning community

(Wenger, 2000)

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Audience

New Orleans, LA

• Faculty Development Staff

• Faculty, Instructors, TA’s

• Department Chairs

• Deans

• Provosts

• Academic Technology Directors

• Chief Information Officers

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Programs for Partners

New Orleans, LA

• Train the Trainer international workshop for faculty developers

• Regional workshops

• Partner Reserve

• Faculty Development Collection and Editorial Board

• Special Programs– SUNY - Online course for Faculty Developers– NLII - Collection/Editorial Board development

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Faculty Development Collection and Editorial Board

New Orleans, LA

• Collection-Teaching with Technology– Prototype developed by CSU Faculty Development

Directors– 200 learning materials

• Editorial Board (8 faculty developers from member institutions, led by 2 co-editors)– Build the collection– Review collection (establish categories for describing

the collection, develop review criteria, triage collection and do reviews)

– Develop relationships with professional societies– Promote MERLOT within own professional community

and on campus

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Outcomes – the Users’ Perspective

• All End Users – Access to a wide variety of resources focused on

helping instructors improve teaching and learning through using online materials

– Access and ability to interact with a community of practice and a learning community of faculty developers

– Recognition for scholarship of teaching the teachers

• Partners – Participation in specialized training re: faculty

development– Ability to ‘set’ the MERLOT faculty development agenda

through participation on the Editorial Board and via the Project Directors’ Council

New Orleans, LA

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The MERLOTFaculty Development

Editorial Board

New Orleans, LA

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New MERLOT Editorial Board:Faculty Development

New Orleans, LA

• Initial meeting of the Editorial Board September, 2002

• Current Related MERLOT Communities– Teaching Well Online (TWO)– Community of Academic Technology Staff

(CATS)

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Role of Editorial Board

New Orleans, LA

• Develop organized collections of online resources tailored to the needs of faculty development

• Develop and apply evaluation standards to materials in the collection using a peer review process

• Develop affiliations with faculty development professional organizations

• Develop the faculty development website within MERLOT

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Initial Decisions

New Orleans, LA

• Definition of Faculty Development

• Mission

• Focus of Discipline

• Types of Resources

• Subject Areas

• Name of Collection

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Mission Statement

New Orleans, LA

The MERLOT Faculty Development site is a cross-disciplinary community whose primary goal is to support faculty in higher education by increasing their knowledge, productivity, and professional effectiveness in teaching with technology. The community includes instructors, instructional designers, faculty development officers and technology support providers.

Community members help this collection grow by contributing reflections, best practices, instructional support ideas and materials that advance the pedagogical understanding of teaching with technology, whether in the classroom, online or in blended models.

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Types of Resources

New Orleans, LA

Academic disciplines types of resources

• Simulation, Animation,

• Tutorial, Drill and Practice, Quiz/Test

• Lecture/Presentation, Case Study, Collection, Reference Material

Faculty Development types of resources

• Workshop and Training Materials

• Policies

• Software and Hardware Evaluations, Templates

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Subject Areas

New Orleans, LA

Guidance from examining other efforts:

• MERLOT TWO

• MERLOT CATS

• UNC TLTC Professional Development Portal

• Teaching and Learning Center Online Resources Lists

• Teaching and Learning with Technology Center Lists

• Educause, POD, NTLF, TLT Group, etc.

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Mapping the Learning Space: MERLOT Categories

New Orleans, LA

Current short list –

• Accessibility • Assessment and Evaluation • Course Design • Policies• Scholarship of Online Teaching and

Learning• Selecting and Using Technologies• Support and Training • Teaching Strategies

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Evaluation Criteria

New Orleans, LA

MERLOT Evaluation Standards

1. Quality of Content

2. Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching-Learning Tool

3. Ease of Use

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Next Steps

New Orleans, LA

Complete efforts on resource types, subject categories, evaluation criteria

In the 2002-2003 academic year, make available the initial collection, begin the peer and user evaluation process.

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Vision

New Orleans, LA

The MERLOT Faculty Development Discipline will become a Community of Practice for Teaching and Learning with Technology


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