MIC 2007

Reviewer Training WorkshopNancy K. Kerner and William Paquette

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MERLOT Discipline Editors

Mission

To improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning by expanding the quantity and quality of peer- reviewed online learning materials that can be easily incorporated into faculty-designed courses.

MERLOT is a free, web-based resource for Higher Ed.

Organizational History & Evolution Organizational History & Evolution

•1996-1997 NSF funds Authoring Tools and Educational Object Economy project. California State University’s (CSU), Center for Distributed Learning establishes an open multimedia repository.

•July 2002 Total of 22 higher education system partners with management provided by CSU.

•1998-2000 A collaboration is formed among the CSU System, Univ. of North Carolina System, Univ. of Georgia System, Oklahoma State Regents. •July 2000 NSF funds MERLOT as part of the Digital Library initiative.

Organization Evolution

• August, 2004 Draft letter of intent to build GLOBE

• GLOBE: Global Learning Object Brokered Exchange to expand the quantity and quality of online educational resources that can be easily incorporated into faculty designed courses.

• Partnership of digital libraries that have sustained institutional constituents – Federated Search– ARIADNE (European Union), EdNA (Australia), eduSource

(Canada), NIME (Japan), MERLOT (US), and other organizations have been identified as potential collaborations, including JISC, SUN, Commonwealth of Nations, etc.

• GLOBE: Global Learning Object Brokered Exchange to expand the quantity and quality of online educational resources that can be easily incorporated into faculty designed courses.

• Partnership of digital libraries that have sustained institutional constituents – Federated Search– ARIADNE (European Union), EdNA (Australia), eduSource

(Canada), NIME (Japan), MERLOT (US), and other organizations have been identified as potential collaborations, including JISC, SUN, Commonwealth of Nations, etc.

MERLOT Revenue 03-04: $2.6 Million per Year 11%

16%

3%

51%

19%

CSU

Grants

Partner Fees

Conference Fees

Partners' In-Kind Contributions (est)

http://www.reusablelearning.org/nsdl.

Growth of MERLOT

COLLECTION Dec 2001

Dec 2002

July2004

July 2006

# of Materials 6,757 8,837 9,806 14,582

# of Members 296 789 1,445 36,000

# of Members w/ Personal Collection

N/A N/A 2,044 6,044

Hits per month 710,216 1,310,526 1,903,938 ~3,000,000

July 2007

17,381

48,934

9,605

Editorial Boards 2007

• Physics• Psychology• Statistics (CAUSE)• Teaching &

Technology• Teacher Education• World Languages• Workforce

Development

• Biology• Business• Chemistry• Criminal Justice• Engineering• Health Sciences• History• Information

Technology• Mathematics• Music 24 Editors

~100 Ed. Board Members~150 volunteer Peer Reviewers

Peer Review Process

Author submits item

Item triaged

No

Peer Review 1

Cataloged w/out review

Reports consolidated & Peer Review posted

Worthy of review?

Yes

Peer Review 2