1 MERLOT Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching Patrick Paulson, Assistant Professor MIS, Winona State University D.W. Proctor, Ph. D., e-Curriculum Director for Minnesota Online www.minnesotaonline.org
Dec 28, 2015
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MERLOTMultimedia Educational Resource for
Learning and Online TeachingPatrick Paulson, Assistant Professor MIS, Winona State University
D.W. Proctor, Ph. D., e-Curriculum Director for Minnesota Online www.minnesotaonline.org
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Presentation Goals
What is MERLOT? How can MERLOT help
you succeed in your initiatives?
Tenure & Promotion with MERLOT
Discussion-Q & A
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MERLOT: What is it?
Anyone can browse, select and even use learning content, but
Content posted to MERLOT is placed there by those who apply for membership
Individual membership is free, but there are costs for other levels of membership
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MERLOT: Priorities and goals
Community and collaboration Professional Development and outreach Digital library connection and services Enabling technologies Sharing materials and ideas
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Who uses it? Current Facts & Figures:
UsagePeople
Collections
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Membership
Type of Member
2002 2003 2004
Students 1,994 3,087 4,161
Faculty 6,621 10,058 12,710
Staff 1,677 2,275 2,731
Admin NA 123 456
Librarians NA 41 196
Other 1,069 1,645 2,057
TOTAL Members 11,561 17,229 22,306
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Growth in Materials & Members
Materials Members
2003 2004 2003 2004
W/ Editorial Boards
8,482 10,544 12,304 16,083
No Editorial Boards
1,502 1,617 5,017 6,330
TOTAL in MERLOT
9,984 12,161 17,321 22,413
% Total from Community with Ed Bds
85% 87% 71% 72%
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System Partner Use “MERLOT has been an excellent faculty
development initiative for a state system, since it promotes collaboration and efficiency. It is a unique organization, approaching common issues and challenges in a way no others do. MERLOT extends our reach and resources by partnering with other systems, organizations, and agencies. I don’t think we could accomplish nearly as much if we tried to do these things by ourselves.”
Phillip K. (Phil) Moss, Assistant Vice Chancellor, Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education
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Faculty Use of MERLOT
“MERLOT is transforming the face of higher education as we know it. Being a part of this project is stimulating and every bit worth the time and effort. We are building a first class digital library and a strong community of practice at the same time. MERLOT puts the focus on teaching and learning.” Laura Franklin, Professor of Humanities and Social
Sciences, Northern Virginia Community College
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Student Use of MERLOT 18% of members are students“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…”
Angela Landsman
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Federated Search Important and useful technology
for MERLOT users. Allows searches for materials
from multiple partner collections, instead of having to search each one separately.
Results are combined and sorted by relevance, title, or originating collection.
Two forms of FS, general federated search discipline-based federated search
(corresponds to MERLOT editorial boards).
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Digital Libraries Increasing access to collections with other Digital Libraries –
Federated Search Edna (Australia) - ARIADNE (EU) CAUSE (statistics) - COMPadre (physics) SMETE (sciences)
In the works: BEN/AAAS (biology) - HEAL (health sciences) CLOE/EduSourceCanada - LOLA (Wesleyan) ATHE (theatre – to build collection within MERLOT)
Corporate library Services into MERLOT and integrates with your INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS Exlibrus- Metalib - Sentient Discover
RSS Feeds: 220 unique requesters; WebCT, Bb, D2L
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Consortium of online services
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Locating Suitable Materials “Search engines tend to return a staggering number of links, and
evaluating search results for suitability and quality can be extremely time consuming - often more so than authoring a new Web page would have been. Not to mention the fact that high-quality sites that are not highly used or attuned to the search engine's way of seeing the Web often fall through the cracks entirely. It's sometimes quicker to reinvent the wheel than to find its schematics online. Wouldn't it be nice to have a mechanism to quickly find the best teaching materials for a given subject, in a given discipline? “
B. Knauff
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3 Rs-Results, Relevant, and Reviewed
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Subject Based Content
Browse by Subject Arts Business Education Humanities Mathematics &
Statistics Science & Technology Social Sciences
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Growth of Pedagogical Annotations
2002 2003 2004
# of Peer Reviews 789 1,102 1,535
# Materials with 1 or More User Comments
1,715 1,914 2,067
# of Personal Collections N/A 572 2,336
# of Members with a Personal Collection
N/A 572 1,260
# of Carnegie-MERLOT Snapshots
N/A N/A 8
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MERLOT: Levels of interaction
User and Contributor Students and faculty
Peer Reviewer and Editorial Board Faculty and administrators
International consortium of partners and affiliates Project directors from MERLOT partners
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User Interaction
Browse/use content Contribute content Author content Comment on content Create related content
for use as a Teacher Learner Practitioner Scholar
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Peer Review and Editorial Boards
Follows the Peer Review model of scholarship
Stringent process Peer Reviewers and
Editorial Boards are supported by system and campus partners
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International Consortium
Promotes: Collaboration, community
building, faculty development and scholarship
Provides: Access to digital libraries,
expertise of and interaction with discipline experts, and education technology expertise from around the world
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Why Work with MERLOT?
To create common means to individual ends. To get more than we will give. To have a fair share in decision making and
participation. To support and hold true to academic values. As a means to provide visibility, accountability and
sustainability. To promote quality of content and scholarship in our
system.
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MERLOT: Special Initiatives
Just to name a few: Digital libraries Virtual Speakers Faculty Development
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MERLOT & IMS Platforms
D2L,WebCT, Bb are working on projects that will bring MERLOT right into the IMS where faculty design courses
D2L partnership focused on RSS feeds Search services Showcase online courses using MERLOT materials
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Virtual Speakers Bureau
Through the MERLOT Virtual Speakers Bureau, you can search for, locate, and invite guest speakers to your courses, professional development workshops, and special online events. You can even use it to invite content experts to visit your classes face-to-face.
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How will this help faculty?
Faculty members—including adjuncts—in fourteen disciplines contribute lesson plans, which are then peer reviewed and rated.
Especially helpful for adjunct faculty hired three weeks before classes starts and is asked to include technology in their teaching.
Allows them to find good materials quickly and use it with confidence, because they can rely on the evaluations that peers have made.
MERLOT can showcase faculty research and work.
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MERLOT: Faculty Development for Partners
Annual train-the-trainer workshop. Consultation services. Participation in regional or individual campus
workshops. MERLOT International conference session
devoted to faculty development. Online course for faculty developers.
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Coming Soon
RSS Feeds to D2L ITeach Online Professional Development Center Minnesota Online
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Influencing Tenure and Promotion
If you don’t get recognized by your peers for high quality work in teaching and learning with technology, it doesn’t matter how effective or efficient you are.
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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 Electronic “portfolio” can be created within MERLOT
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MERLOT: Peer Review & Tenure
Quick list of related articles from a last minute Google Search MERLOT’s Peer Review process and tenure by Dr. G. L. Hanley,
MERLOT/California State University The Chronicle of Higher Education: Working with Technology and Winning Tenure
http://chronicle.com/colloquylive/2002/02/tenure/ Web Contributions and Tenure Decisions by Marylaine Brock
http://marylaine.com/exlibris/xlib159.html Faculty Rewards in Digital Environments by Syllabus Institute (In Press)
http://www.campus-technology.com/article.asp?id=410 Stakeholder Needs Assessment by eduSource Canada
http://www.edusource.ca/craw/RPT_Needs_Assessment08.htm MERLOT: A Model for User Involvement in Digital Library Design and
Implementation by Dr. F. McMartin http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i03/McMartin/
MERLOT Promises Effeciency and Quality Control by B. Knauff http://www.dartmouth.edu/~webteach/spotlights/merlot.htm
Engaging the Faculty by P.R. Hagner and C.A. Schneebeck http://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/30/07879501/0787950130.pd
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Intellectual Property Concerns?
Creative Commons Flexible range of
protections & freedoms for authors and artists.
Built upon "all rights reserved" of traditional copyright to create a voluntary "some rights reserved" copyright.
Nonprofit, A Crash Course in Copyright is located at this site.
http://creativecommons.org/
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Questions, comments, concerns, or suggestions?
Presenter Information:
Patrick Paulson, Assistant Professor MIS, Winona State University [email protected] neat Merlot tutorials/exercises at:
http://course1.winona.edu/ppaulson/merlot/
Deborah W. Proctor, Ph.D. E-Curriculum Director for Minnesota Online Office of the Chancellor, Academic Innovations [email protected]
http://www.deborahproctor.efoliomn2.com
Find out more about Minnesota Online: www.minnesotaonline.org www.eresources.mnscu.edu