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Using Learning ObjectsMeta-Data in Education:
An Introduction to MERLOT
Barbra Bied SperlingManager of Technical Development, MERLOT
California State University, Office of the Chancellor
MEITAL 2009: The Open Knowledge World
7th Annual MEITAL National Conference
Presentation Outline
• Introduction to MERLOT
• Joining MERLOT
• Contributing Material
• Other services
MERLOT's vision is to be a premiere online community where faculty, staff, and students from around the world share their learning materials and pedagogy.
Structure of MERLOT• Staff (Cal State University)• 3 Full time (2 of these are Tech Team)• 3 Part time (including Executive
Director)• Project Directors (10% of time)• Represent Partners• Set direction of MERLOT
• Editors of Disciplines (25% of time)• Communities• Peer Review
• Editorial Board Members (10% of time)• Peer Review• MERLOT Projects
• Volunteers
MERLOT Supports Creative Commons
MERLOT strongly endorses and recommends Creative Commons
licensing to encourage the sharing and reuse of online
learning materials while protecting Members’ work from
misuse and abuse.
MERLOT gives faculty…
• A vision, direction and a process for the integration of instructional materials in hybrid, online and f2f courses• A formidable resource for professional
development• A mature collection of ready to use materials• Opportunities for collaboration with MERLOT
users and authors worldwide.
MERLOT Makes Faculty Work Easier
• One stop shopping to good material• An easy way to get hybrid and online
courses off and running• A great way to reach students where they
are at - online!!• A way to provide real-world, classroom-
tested materials just in time
MERLOT Repository
* October 1, 2009
Registered Members*– 74,468+ growing @ 1,000/month
Materials– 21,220– 2,798 ~ Peer Reviewed– 9,269 materials in “Personal
Collections”– 3,292 materials with member
comments
Usage~ 150,000 average unique visits per
month
Always find what’s new
© MERLOT 2008 Barbra Bied Sperling
Who Are You?
• How Many First Timers in MERLOT?•Who Knows What MERLOT Stands For?•Who Has Used MERLOT to Find Online Learning Materials?•Who Has Included MERLOT in Course Instruction?
Are you a member of Are you a member of MERLOT? MERLOT?
MERLOT Is Here For You To Use
Become a member (its free) Discover and Contribute learning materials
Create Personal CollectionsAdd AssignmentsWrite Comments
Why should you join MERLOT?Create personal collections
Contribute materials, comments, learning exercises
Develop a personal profile and create a CV
Share online expertise with others
Receive peer recognition
Become a guest speaker
Join an Editorial Board - Become a Peer Reviewer
Find others in a discipline
How do I join MERLOT?
We don’t require much information
All members identify affiliation when registering in MERLOT
Identify professional affiliationCurrent Use - Partner “Dashboard” analyses
Future Use – customized, institutional MERLOT home page
Affiliations Identification
Specify your affiliation when joining
Edit your affiliation in your profile
View partner affiliation participation
Once you join, you have a profile
I’m logged in, now what?
Updating your profileUpdating your profile
Update your profile
Want to change what you just added?
We will save these for a future presentation.
Update your profile
Find materials and Find materials and members in MERLOT members in MERLOT
Search and browse MERLOT
Search MERLOT Members
Federated Search
Federated Search - results
RSS Feeds in MERLOT
Any search can become an RSS feed
MERLOT Web Serviceshttp://www.merlot.org/merlot/signWebServicesForm.htm
Simple Search
Advanced Search
Contribute material
Register (Join)
LMS Partnerships
• Blackboard
• WebCT
• ANGEL Learning
• Desire2Learn
- Web services are server functions - not end-user functions
- A “client application” must be written as an end user front end
-Simple Search web service
MERLOT Web Services
- Advanced Search web service available to Partners, and for a fee
- Contribute web service and Join web service in Beta
MERLOT Advanced Search
It’s important to It’s important to share:share:
Contribute to MERLOTContribute to MERLOT
Contribute learning materials
All you need are a few details:
Enter a title and URL for the material Describe the material, material type,
audience and keywords (even include formatting with the text editor)
Identify the subject category and language(s)
Add author information Any extra information to help a user
including creative commons
The finished product! Detail view
Member commentsMember commentsand and
Learning ExercisesLearning Exercises
Add a comment or learning exercise
Member Comments
Learning Exercises (previously known as assignments)
Organize your Organize your materials:materials:
Personal CollectionsPersonal Collections
Personal Collections
How do I create a collection?
Where can I find personal collections?
Do you like someone else's collection?
And there’s still so And there’s still so much more to much more to
MERLOT…MERLOT…
Recognizing Your Efforts
Ribbons of recognition
Provides recognition for faculty capabilities and performance
Provides accountability for institutions
Provides academically acceptable mechanism/process that is motivational
How you get recognized in MERLOT
• Contribute materials
• Add comments
• Submit assignments
• Create personal collections
• Join the VSB
• Become a peer reviewer
• Author materials
Differences - MERLOT vs. Journal
• Evaluate teaching materials, not research articles.
• MERLOT has Peer Review Training
• Actual Peer Review appears on MERLOT site, so
can read what has been evaluated
• Write an appreciation letter at end of year
• Invitation to join Board with 5 reviews.
• Peer Reviewer Extraordinaire
MERLOT Editorial Discipline Boards
Organized like journal editorial board
• Editor (may be co-editor• Board Members• Associate Editors• Peer Reviewers
MERLOT Editorial Boards• Biology• Business• Chemistry• Criminal Justice• Engineering• English• Faculty Development• Fire Safety• Health Sciences• History• Information Technology• Library and Information
Services
• Math• Music• Physics• Psychology• Statistics• Teacher Education• Technical Allied Health• World Languages
• Agriculture• Communication Sciences• Professional Coaching
2 Stage Peer Review Process
• Triage• At least 2 Individual Reviewers complete
the review• Editor combines Review into Composite
Review• Composite Review is sent to Author for
approval• Once Author approves, post the Review
Current• Editorial Boards• Build the Collection• Build the Community• Peer Review (volunteers)
• Additional Services• Personal Collections• Virtual Speakers Bureau• JOLT• MERLOT Voices
MERLOT Editorial Boards
Editor
Associate Editor
Associate Editor
Associate Editor
Ad Hoc Reviewer
Ad Hoc Reviewer
Ad Hoc Reviewer
GRAPE Camp
• 3 weeks• Online• Homework• Workspace• Assign to Editorial Board• Mentored on first review
There is so much There is so much more to MERLOT … more to MERLOT …
Share a material with a friend
Report a broken link to us
MERLOT CommunitiesMERLOT Communities
MERLOT Communities
Discipline Community Portal
Teaching Commons – Partner Portal
MERLOT Online MERLOT Online Journal:Journal:
J O L TJ O L Thttp://jolt.merlot.orghttp://jolt.merlot.org
© MERLOT 2009 TechEd 2009 - Sorel Reisman67RIDING THE WAVES OF INNOVATION • cenic09.cenic.org
MERLOT Online MERLOT Online Newsletter:Newsletter:
The GrapevineThe Grapevinehttp://http://
grapevine.merlot.orggrapevine.merlot.org
© MERLOT 2009 TechEd 2009 - Sorel Reisman
Need Guest Experts? Need Guest Experts? Virtual Speakers Virtual Speakers Bureau can helpBureau can help
Find other Guest Experts that can
help you or become a VSB
member yourself
Virtual Speakers Bureau
Virtual Speakers Bureau profile
MERLOT’s MERLOT’s New Authoring Tool: New Authoring Tool:
Content BuilderContent Builder
MERLOT and Carnegie
• Carnegie Foundation KEEP Toolkit• Previous Use: MERLOT Snapshots• Snapshots are a type of learning material• Offered Toolkit as open source software• Carnegie service to end in October• MERLOT and Carnegie announce MERLOT
support of KEEP users• MERLOT to integrate/customize KEEP software
MERLOT
Content
Builder
There is so much There is so much more to MERLOT … more to MERLOT …
Directly Search Quickly search MERLOT’s 20,000+
higher education learning material repository
Simplifies learning material review for mobile users
Display Hit list titles with abbreviated
descriptions Easy to view materials without mobile
browser
Review Full MERLOT description in browser Quickly select important learning
materials
eMail Directly send learning material
information to yourself and/or colleagues for later use in teaching and learning
MERLOT Mobile Search
• Totally independent application• “Cosmetically” integrated w/MERLOT application• Hosted on commercial server site• Terms of Service usage are a supplement to
MERLOT Acceptable Use Agreement (AUP)• All forum posts fall under Creative Commons
License described in MERLOT AUP – non commercial, attribution, non derivative, share-alike
• Joining Voices requires separate “join”• Not required to be MERLOT registered member
MERLOT Voices
http://voices.merlot.org
www.youtube.com/MERLOTplace
Proprietary channel and URL No ads MERLOT-created playlists MERLOT’s video repository Visit MERLOTPlace at http://youtube.com/MERLOTPlace
MERLOT YouTube Channel
3-D MERLOT in Second Life
MERLOT 3-D Campus
2008 –MERLOT released CLIVE - Center for Learning in Virtual Environments - Partner Community Teaching Commons
Collaboration between MERLOT, U of Oregon Center for Advanced Technology in Education
CLIVE Portal
To put into practice, in VEs, what we preach
Chose Second Life as exemplarPartnered in development with MERLOT Corporate Partner, Sify Technologies
Announced MERLOT 3-D Campus at MIC 09
MERLOT 3-D Campus
The 3-D Campus
MERLOTIsn’t just about wine.
We have a huge harvest in our vineyard.Come and taste!
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