MIC 2007Copyright MERLOT1 Gerry Hanley, Executive Director, MERLOT MERLOT International Conference...

1MIC 2007 Copyright MERLOT

Gerry Hanley, Executive Director, MERLOT

MERLOT International Conference

August 9, 2007

New Orleans, LA

Enabling Success of Your Institutional Initiatives

with MERLOT


Is this a good way to spend the next 45

minutes?• Quick instructions with Einstruction

Clickers• What are your campus initiatives?• Who needs the help for your initiatives

to succeed and what type of help to they need?

• What is MERLOT’s strategy to help you?


What are the initiatives that have been declared as important priorities for your campus?


MERLOT’s List of 15 HE Initiatives

1. Accelerated Development of Online Courses and Programs

2. Course Redesign/ Academic Transformation

3. Effective Use of LMS4. Faculty Development for

Effective Teaching with Tech

5. Enabling Success of Adjunct Faculty

6. Facilitating Graduation 7. College Readiness

7. K-20 Initiatives8. Notebook Initiatives9. High Cost of Textbooks10.Assessment and

Accreditation11.Accessibility of

Educational Resources12.Workforce Development13.Smart Classrooms14.Institutional Repositories15.ESL


How Needs Help To Make the Initiatives Succeed?

1. Faculty2. Faculty Development Directors3. Students4. Academic Technology Staff5. Provosts6. Deans7. Department Chairs8. Librarians9. Other


Enable Successful Educational Workflow

Step 1: Discovery & Research for TeachingStep 2: Designing the Learning ExperienceStep 3: TeachingStep 4: LearningStep 5: Feedback, Assessment, &

Evaluation

Enabling people to be effective and efficient in the use of technology in teaching and learning is key


Discovery of content for teaching

• Use MERLOT.org, RSS & MERLOT Search Built into LMS’s

• Explore Disciplinary Portals

• Use Personal Collections & Member Contributions Portfolios of MERLOT Members

• Searching Multiple Digital Libraries


Research of content for teaching• Examine Peer Reviews, Member

Comments, Personal Collection/Citation Index

• Create Departmental Collections using Personal Collections tools

• Examine for Quality Materials

• Examine Showcases in Disciplinary Portals


Design the Learning Experience• Peer Reviews and Member Comments

provides advice on valuable features and qualities

• “Snapshots” provides insights into integrating learning objects into courses.

• Assignments provide teachers a framework for turning content into curriculum

• “Activity Sheets” – assignments with rich resources about pedagogical strategy (partnership with SERC)


Design the Learning Experience• Contact colleagues in Member

Directory to get advice from people with experience and expertise

• Read

• Get training on using academic technologies– MERLOT International Conference & Workshops– MERLOT Partners’ Faculty Development Programs– Find tutorials in Teaching and Technology

Collection & Portal


• Find guest experts in the Virtual Speakers Bureau

• Use Personal Collections as shortcuts for demonstrating websites in or out of class

• Confidently demonstrate websites in class

Your campus’ “teaching culture”, facilities, and supports services are key to making teachers’ lives better while teaching.

Teaching


EnableStudent Learning • Send students to MERLOT to find and

learn from content– Provide students a Personal Collection of

materials that they should know as a prerequisite for your course.

• Have students create and annotate Personal Collections (Learning Resources Portfolio)

• Have students write Member Comments to reflect on learning experiences using materials and comment on each other’s work


Students Reflecting on Their 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…”


Feedback, Assessment and Evaluation• Choose online learning materials that

have build-in assessment exercises.

• Choose materials that have Assignments with provide assessment rubrics.

• Direct students to peer review their fellow students’ Member Comments,

Assignments and Personal Collections.


How About Improving the Workflow for Others?• Students?

– MERLOT as Learners’ Library

• Librarians? – Establishing New Editorial Board– Members on disciplinary Editorial Boards

• Academic Technology Staff? – Portals, MERLOT.org, IT portal, faculty development

portal

• Faculty Development Staff?– Portals, MERLOT.org, faculty development portal

• Administrators?– MERLOT as leveraged initiative


In summary….

• Begin with understanding the needs and practices of your people, then design the services needed

• “Package” MERLOT services that are aligned with the needs

• Be a steward/facilitator/”teacher of fishing” to empower people to serve their own needs when and how it serves them best.


Moving From…

Your CampusCommunity &

Academic Culture

Mass = 1


To Here….

Mass = Campus Community

Mass = Educational Practices

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