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Gerard L. Hanley, Ph.D. Executive Director, MERLOT Senior Director, California State University Sharing Learning Objects: Serving MERLOT to Higher Education New Media Consortia Online Conference October 13, 2003

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Sharing Learning Objects: Serving MERLOT to Higher Education. Gerard L. Hanley, Ph.D. Executive Director, MERLOT Senior Director, California State University. New Media Consortia Online Conference October 13, 2003. Setting Expectations. Leveraging the Faculty Culture - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: Gerard L. Hanley, Ph.D. Executive Director, MERLOT  Senior Director, California State University

Gerard L. Hanley, Ph.D.

Executive Director, MERLOT

Senior Director, California State University

Sharing Learning Objects: Serving MERLOT to

Higher Education

New Media Consortia

Online Conference

October 13, 2003

Page 2: Gerard L. Hanley, Ph.D. Executive Director, MERLOT  Senior Director, California State University

Setting Expectations

• Leveraging the Faculty Culture• Heavy Lifting with MERLOT

– A Tour Through the Vineyard

• MERLOT Metrics• How the MERLOT Community Works• Leveraging the Administrator’s Culture

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The Physics of Leveraging Academia

orWhy Our Jobs Are So Difficult

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Is this YOU?

Your CampusCommunity &

Academic Culture

Mass = 1

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What are your options?

Reduce what you have to lift

Move the fulcrum closer to object

Strengthen the lever

Add weight to your forces

Academic Recognition

Tenure & Promotion Processes Academic Initiatives: MERLOT

Focus on People

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Taking a Tour Through the MERLOT Vineyard

MERLOT’S VISION Be a premier online community where faculty,

staff, and students from around the world share teaching-learning materials and pedagogy.

www.merlot.org

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MERLOT METRICS

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Usage Continues to Grow

USAGE Dec 2001 Dec 2002 July 2003

Hits per month 710,216 1,310,526 1,512,463

15% increase in 7 months

Average Unique Visitors

per month9,579 13,985 15,216

9% increase

in 7 months

Average # of Users

per monthN/A 18,742 21,643

15% increase in 7 months

% of users that go to Home page, then continue

N/A 97% 97.5%

Average Session Length 5:10 min. 6:50 min. 6:43 min.

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MERLOT’s People Metrics

MEMBERSHIP Dec 2001 Dec 2002 July 2003

Students 959 1,994 2,569

Faculty 3,774 6,621 8,965

Staff 1,003 1,677 2,107

Other 651 1,069 1,428

TOTAL # of Members

6,387 11,561 15,069

30% Increase in 7 months

Page 17: Gerard L. Hanley, Ph.D. Executive Director, MERLOT  Senior Director, California State University

Growth of MERLOT Collection

COLLECTION Dec 2001 Dec 2002 July 2003

# of Materials- Disciplines

With Editorial Boards5,638 7,440 8,301

# of Materials- Disciplines Without Editorial Boards

1,119 1,397 1,286*

# of Peer Reviews 296 789 987# of Materials with Member Comments 1,386 1,904 1,855*

# of Personal Collections N/A N/A 351

* = MERLOT curated the collection and removed “dead links”.

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How MERLOT Works

Bringing Faculty, Staff, Students, and

Administrators to Work Together Individually

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Administrative Team

Sustaining PartnersAdvisory Board

System Partners & Campus Partners

MERLOT Editorial Boards

Alliance Partners and Professional Societies

MERLOT Members and Users

Peer Review

Digital Library Resources & Services

Professional Development

Collaboration &Community

Strategic Priorities

Programs Delivering Resources and Services

Faculty StudentsAdministrators Staff

MERLOT Conferences Partners/Alliances Website

Enabling Technologies

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Mobilizing Educational Community: Higher Education Institutions

System Partners:• California Community

College System• California State University• EduSource.canada• Illinois Board of Higher

Education• Louisiana Board of

Regents• Oklahoma State Regents

for Higher Education• South Dakota Board of

Regents

• State University of New York• Tennessee Board of Regents • Troy State University• University of Michigan• University of North Carolina• University System of Georgia• University of Wisconsin System• Virginia Community College System• WICHE, Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications

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Contributions of Partnership:

System Partner Contributions• $25K annual fee• $50K-$100K In-kind support for their faculty participation• Dissemination and Outreach• Faculty Development Activities• Integration of MERLOT into existing academic technology initiatives

Additional Levels of Participation - Campus Partners:• Coastal Carolina University• Cornell University• Ohio University• St. Petersburg College• Seton Hall University

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Cooperative Economics To Change the World

Large Number of Feasible Fees 21 Systems and Institutions = $450K 5 NSF grants & subcontracts = $350K In-Kind Contributions = $1.7M (est.) Conference Fees = $65K

CSU Management = $450K

Forces

Lever

Fulcrum

Together we can leverage change

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MERLOT’s Organizational PartnersDigital Library Services Activity

Education.au Limited

SMETE.org

American Assoc of Physics Teachers

Federated Search

NEEDS (Engineering)

HEAL (Heal Science)

CAUSE (Statistics)

Journal of Chemical Education*

Peer Review

Professional Development

New Media Consortium

NLII/EDUCAUSE

POD*

Professional Development

Enabling Technologies

IMS (Affiliate) Standards

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MERLOT Supports Higher Ed Culture

• MERLOT provides QUALITY REVIEWS– Standards-based evaluation – Independent panel of experts – Training for the reliable application of standards

• MERLOT provides USER SERVICES– Free and reliable access to a digital library of online resources– An electronic portfolio can be created within MERLOT

• Teaching and Course Portfolios

• MERLOT provides RECOGNITION– Documentation for Authors, Contributors, Reviewers, and Users

MERLOT Supports Tenure and Promotion Reviews

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Administering MERLOT to Administrators

Administrators must be served well by MERLOT if Teachers are to be served

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Administrative Constraints

• Never enough money• Never enough space• Minimal information to inform decision making• Very difficult to speed up change• Distributed authority• Personnel issues• You are responsible for all things great and small

(and people are ready to blame you when things go wrong)

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The MERLOT Fulcrum:Faster, Cheaper, Better, Fairly

• Improve Quality Assurance– MERLOT provides peer reviews with guidance on use

• Fairness Across Disciplines and Faculty– MERLOT serves new, veteran, techies, non-techies, full-time and

adjunct faculty- all at different states of professional development

• Increase Speed of Development and Use – MERLOT provides infrastructure for rapid growth in the quantity

of reusable curriculum that can be found easily and incorporated into faculty designed courses

• Reduce Cost – MERLOT shares costs for assigned time, training, technical

support and management

Page 28: Gerard L. Hanley, Ph.D. Executive Director, MERLOT  Senior Director, California State University

What Makes The MERLOT Cooperative Work?

• We Create Common Means to Individual Ends

• You Get More Than You Give• You Have a Fair Share in Decision

Making and Participation• We Hold True to Academic Values• We Provide Visibility, Accountability &

Sustainability• You TRUST Us to Deliver High Quality

Services

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Next Steps Are The Ones We Take Together!

Gerard L. Hanley, Ph.D. [email protected]

Graphic Design by Rachel S. Smith, CSU Center for Distributed Learning