timothy tirrell virginia community college system serving merlot on your campus
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Timothy TirrellVirginia Community College System
Serving MERLOT on Your Campus
15 minutes of MERLOT (or less)
• Quick Overview of MERLOT
• A Tour Through the MERLOT Vineyard – The services that you can use right now
• Conference Connections
• Questions, Answers, Discussion
Vision and Mission
MERLOT’S VISION is to be a premier online community where faculty, staff, and students from around the world share teaching-learning materials and pedagogy.
MERLOT’S MISSION is to improve the effectiveness of teaching & learning by expanding the quantity and quality of peer-reviewed online learning materials that can be easily incorporated into faculty designed courses.
What is MERLOT?
M M ultimedia E E ducational R R esource forL L earning andO O nline T T eaching
WWW.MERLOT.ORG MERLOT IS: MERLOT IS:
A Free and Open Resource Searching & identifying Evaluating Using Cataloging Developing
A Community Systems & individuals Disciplines E-Portfolios
Repository Software Federated searching
Types of Learning Materials
• Simulations
• Animations
• Tutorials
• Drill & Practice
• Quiz/Test
• Lecture/Presentation
• Collections
• Reference Materials
• Learning Assignments
What is a Learning Object?
• “Content Objects”• “Knowledge Objects”• “Components of Instructional ”• “Pedagogical Documents”• “Online Materials”• “Virtual Apparatus”• “Learning Materials vs. Teaching Materials”
• REUSABLE GRANULARITY
Instructional Building Blocks……
Serving the Needs of Faculty Through Promotion and
Tenure
Tenure & Promotion with MERLOT
• MERLOT provides QUALITY REVIEWS– Standards-based evaluation – Independent panel of experts – Training for the reliable application of
standards
• MERLOT provides DOCUMENTATION– Documentation for Authors, Contributors,
Reviewers, and Users– An electronic portfolio can be created within
MERLOT• Teaching and Course Portfolios
MERLOT’s Value to Faculty Authors
• Visibility of their Scholarship of Teaching through MERLOT website
• Peer Review of their scholarship– Evaluation of quality, effectiveness, and usability– Feedback for improvements
• Recognition and documentation– MERLOT publicly posts review on website– MERLOT Awards – Classics and Editors’ Choice– MERLOT citations in other’s Personal Collections– MERLOT sends two letters summarizing the review
procedure and evaluation report to two of author’s designees
– Document can become part of author’s tenure and promotion portfolio
New MERLOT Services•Growing Digital Library and Services
• Federated Searching Federated Searching•“Mini-MERLOT’s” for your websites
•Professional Development Services•MERLOT International Conference•MERLOT-Teaching and Technology• Support for Adjunct Faculty
• MERLOT Alliance Partners•American Association of Physics Teachers•EdNA Online Digital Library (Australia)•NLII/EDUCAUSE •National University of Rwanda •New Media Consortium/Centers
Join as an IndividualJoin as an Institution
Next Steps Are The Ones We Take Together!
Questions?
Graphic Design by Rachel S. Smith, CSU Center for Distributed Learning
