M ultimedia

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M ultimedia E ducational R esource for L
earning and O nline T eaching
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Vision Mission

• MERLOTS VISION is to be the place where faculty
  from around the world will share
  teaching-learning materials and pedagogy.
• MERLOTS 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.

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Aspects of MERLOT

• MERLOT is a COOPERATIVE
• INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS
• ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS
• INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS
• MERLOT is a SET OF PROCESSES
• Peer review of online teaching-learning materials
  and building online, discipline-based
  communities.
• MERLOT is SOFTWARE
• A searchable database of online learning
  materials, pedagogical support, and people.

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• MERLOT The Software

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• MERLOT The Processes

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MERLOT Principles

• Be Faculty Focused
• Recognition for Teaching Learning
• Faculty-led Evaluation
• Be Focused on Teaching and Learning
• A Teaching Community rather than Teaching Alone
• Working Together Works
• Make Tools EFFECTIVE, EASY, ENJOYABLE

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Merlot Discipline Groups
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Peer Reviews

• Faculty Discipline Teams
• Adopt evaluation standards
• quality of content
• potential effectiveness for teaching learning
• ease of use
• Develop peer review process
• Develop roles and responsibilities as MERLOT
  reviewers
• Use MERLOT Worksites to sustain productivity

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• MERLOT The Cooperative

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Cooperation at Many Levels

• MERLOT Administrative Team
• MERLOT Advisory Board
• MERLOT Project Directors Council
• MERLOT Discipline Co-Leaders
• MERLOT Faculty Discipline Teams

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What Makes The MERLOT Cooperative Work?

• Serve Needs and Common Interests
• High Quality, Reusable, Self-Service Resource
• Tenure and Promotion Issues
• Mechanism to Leverage Investments
• Get More Than You Give
• Give 1 Get 100
• Dont Manage SW/HW, training, logistics
• TRUST
• Management Members of Cooperatives

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BUILDING TRUSTCore to Cooperatives

• Create Common Means to Individual Ends
• Fair Share in Decision Making
• Schedules and Policies
• Deliver Quality Products and Services
• Responsive to Partners Issues
• Hold True to Academic Values
• Visibility, Accountability, Sustainability

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California State University MERLOT Commitments

• Provide Program Management and Logistics
• Provide MERLOT Processes
• Provide Software/Hardware Management
• Provide Marketing Materials
• Provide Strategic Planning and Mechanisms for
  Sustaining MERLOT

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Institutional Partner Commitments

• Faculty Reviewers
• 8 faculty to serve as experts
• Faculty Development Academic Technology
  Personnel
• Travel
• Training, presentations, meetings
• Project Director (10)
• Planning, coordinating, budgeting, etc.
• Participation Fee 25K

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Building Discipline Communities
Professional Societies
AUTHORS
USERS
REVIEWERS
MERLOT
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MERLOTs Value

• The solution to some local, institutional
  problems requires global strategies.
• MERLOT is
• committed to free access for end users
• built upon the principle of open exchange of
  ideas
• almost 180 faculty working in concert
• about 100 faculty development and academic
  technology personnel supporting its use
• a leveraging of partner resources

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Join the Cooperative!

• Visit http//taste.merlot.org for more information

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Thank You!

• Questions?