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January 24, 2005
Gerry Hanley
Executive Director, MERLOT
NLII 2005
January 24, 2005
MERLOT: Slipstreaming to Success
January 24, 2005
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January 24, 2005
Slipstreaming Outcome: Improving Your Performance
By Leveraging Other’s Work
Process: Collaboration that can be…Cooperative to CompetitiveIntentional to IncidentalSynchronously to Asynchronously
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Quick Tour Through the MERLOT Vineyard
http://www.merlot.org
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Growth in Usage, Materials and
Members
Metrics 2003 2004Hits per month 1.8 M 3.2 M
# Unique Visitors 160,719 206,965
Registered Members 17,229 22,306
# of Materials 9,984 12,161
# of Peer Reviews in Process (Triaged)
5,984 8,557
# of Peer Reviews Posted
1,102 1,535
# of Personal Collections
1,083 2,336
January 24, 2005
MERLOT Consortium for
EducationType of Participation Numbe
rHigher Education (Systems & Campuses)
23
Digital Libraries 6
Academic Professional Societies 9
Academic Industry 22
# of Editorial Board Members 272
http://taste.merlot.org
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Our Strategic Services…
• Providing Digital Library Collections and Services • Providing & Enabling Professional Development and Outreach• Leading Community and Collaboration• Implementing Enabling Technologies
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…To Enable Successful Education
Step I: Discovery & Research for TeachingStep II: Designing the Learning ExperienceStep III: TeachingStep IV: LearningStep V: Feedback, Assessment, &
Evaluation
Enabling faculty to be effective and efficient in the use of technology in teaching and learning is key
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Slipstreaming Digital Library
Services• Increasing access to other Digital
Libraries via Federated Search– Edna (Australia) - ARIADNE (EU)– CAUSE (statistics)- COMPadre (physics)– SMETE (sciences) - Unv of North Carolina
• In the works:– HEAL (health sciences)– CLOE – Cooperative Learning Object Exchange
Canada– ATHE (theatre – to build collection within
MERLOT)
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Slipstreaming Digital Library
Services• MERLOT is available through your library
search tools to provided integrated access with your institutional collections– Exlibrus- Metalib– Sentient Discover: provides plug-in into WebCT and Bb
• RSS Feeds: The learning object newspaper delivered to your website’s doorstep– 220 unique requesters in 2004– WebCT, Bb, D2L have MERLOT RSS feeds that faculty
can choose to display within their courses.
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Leveraging the World’s Collection of
Learning Objects Global Learning Object Brokered
Exchange to expand the quantity and quality of online educational resources that can be easily incorporated into faculty designed courses.
• ARIADNE (European Union), EdNA (Australia), eduSource (Canada), NIME (Japan), and MERLOT (US) are the founding “stewards” of GLOBE.– Partnership of digital libraries that have sustained
institutional constituents
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Building the Slipstream
• Technology Team will adopt standard GLOBE technology protocols
• Business Plan Team will finalize business plan for GLOBE (governance, scope of services, roadmap for implementation)
• Who can we learn from while innovating?– IMS: Standard will enable easy community
participation.– Sun Microsystems: Federated search
expertise – Sun is a MERLOT Corporate Community
Partner
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Working with Publishers
• Faculty want choice to use a blend of commercial publisher materials and MERLOT resources. What are the issues and reactions?
• McGraw Hill became a Corporate Community Partner in 2004– Test contributions of McGraw Hill in
MERLOT– Examine use of McGraw Hill-CISCO
learning system services• O’Reilly Advisory Board - SafariU
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Working with IBM
• How do the commercial content providers and users respect and protect IP?
• MERLOT-IBM Field Testing of Prototype Solution– In early 2003, MERLOT and IBM formed an
agreement to build a prototype “digital content exchange” to test whether such an exchange was technically feasible and would have academic acceptance
– MERLOT supplied the requirements and content – IBM supplied the technical infrastructure and
technical support– Prototype was tested by members of MERLOT
institutions and concluded in April, 2004
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Key Conclusions from Field Test
• Key requirements of the exchange can be supported in the infrastructure
• Providers and consumers (faculty and students) found value in the system
• Ease of use is a (the) significant acceptance factor
• While the opportunity to create new business models abounds within the exchange, there is limited understanding about which models will succeed
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Enabling Discovery & Research for
Teaching• Slipstreaming with Institutions,
Professional Societies, and Corporations is critical for:– Federated Search: Increasing access to
collection without all the work– Collection development: Blending
commercial and non-commercial materials– DRM: Protecting IP– eCommerence & supporting usable
workflow
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Slipstreaming Professional
Development and Outreach
• MERLOT Institutional Partners are the keys for faculty development– Systems’ and Campuses’ Faculty Development
Programs– CSU-CATS & MERLOT-CATS– MERLOT International Conference
• TLT Group: Delivering quality services to a network of “ready” institutions and faculty– Discounts on services– Joint MERLOT-TLT programs delivered
• Consulting/Advice• Online seminars
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Slipstreaming Professional
Development and Outreach
• Communications Program– MERLOT “PORTALS”– MERLOT Newsletters (The Grapevine)– MERLOT’s Need:
• Deliver a large number of discipline-specific publishing services to independent, distributed content experts
• Must be effective, usable, reliable, scaleable, easy to manage, and have low procurement and operational costs.
• Collaborations with Macromedia produced solutions to managing outreach and professional development resources
January 24, 2005
In 36 hours….The newsletter was sent out to approximately 21,000
members. • 102 people unsubscribed to the newsletter. • 12 non-MERLOT members people subscribed to the
newsletter• 52 people joined MERLOT within the last day after the
newsletter went out. Usually we get about 15 a day.• 48 NEW Personal Collections created• 8 sent email with positive comments about how much
they liked the newsletter and the sense of community.
• 3 sent "negative comments" These included the use of too many acronyms or their email was empty.
• 2 wanted to know how to contribute material to subsequent newsletter
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Quick Observation on Student Use
of MERLOT
18% of MERLOT Members are Registered as Students
Opportunity to Slipstream with NLII’s focus on student learning?
January 24, 2005
Students Reflecting on Learning
Angela Landsman, MERLOT Student Member commenting on her learning from a DNA Website
• “I am a fourth year college student. I was instructed by my college professor to join merlot and to review three websites and pick my favorite.”
• “The webpages were setup in such a way that you don't realize how much you are learning until you have completed the "lesson"….. I found it much more effective to "view" the experiments rather than merely hear about them. The videos and sound were excellent and I appreciated the animation allowing me to move at my own pace. I was not forced to move through too quickly…”
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Moving From…
Your CampusCommunity &
Academic Culture
Mass = 1
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To Here….
Mass = Education Community
Mass = Education Practices