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Effective Use of MERLOT:
An Overview
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
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.
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 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
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
How can Personal Collections be used?
Use Personal Collections to create topic lists for Academic Continuity All materials in MERLOT Basic courses in Business, Biology,
etc. Can be delivered totally online or as a
hybrid course We are seeking from our members,
the creation of more course topics for Academic Continuity
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
• Editor (may be co-editor)• Board Members• Associate Editors• Peer Reviewers• Organized like journal editorial board• Build the Collection• Build the Community Peer Review
(volunteers)
MERLOT Editorial Boards
Editor
Associate Editor
Associate Editor
Associate Editor
Ad Hoc Reviewer
Ad Hoc Reviewer
Ad Hoc Reviewer
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
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
GRAPE Camp• Once a week for 3 weeks – meet online. • Homework• Workspace• Assign to Editorial Board• Mentored on first review
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 Web Serviceshttp://www.merlot.org/merlot/signWebServicesForm.htm
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