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……

Taking A Tour Through The

MERLOT Vineyard

http://www.merlot.org/

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

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Next Steps Are The Ones We Take Together!

Questions?

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