Pedagogic Service Project: Enriching the MERLOT Collection Cathy Manduca Science Education Resource...

Pedagogic Service Project: Enriching the MERLOT Collection

Cathy ManducaScience Education Resource Center,

Carleton College

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Pedagogic Service Project• Connecting digital library resources to

information on how to use them• Activities• Teaching Methods MERLOT Development Site

• Promoting connections and reuse through a pedagogic service

Module List , Compadre Interactive Lectures, Starting Point Interactive Lecture

• Customized views for specific audiences

Partners: MERLOT, ComPADRE, CAUSEweb, ERESE, eduCommons; Stanford Center for Teaching and Learning; Perlman Center for Teaching and Learning; Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum

http://dev.merlot.org:39090/merlot/index.htm

http://serc.carleton.edu/sp

http://serc.carleton.edu/introgeo/interactive/index.html



MERLOT implementation• Phase 1 (virtually finished): develop demonstration

implementation and solve technical linking• MERLOT Biology Community• MERLOT Math Community• Integrated Portal

• Phase 2: • Develop well-populated collections in Bio and Math• Enage other disciplines

http://biology.merlot.org/

http://mathematics.merlot.org/

http://serc.carleton.edu/sp/merlot/infotech/index.html



MERLOT members involved• MERLOT Editorial Board members contributing to

initial activity collection• Scott Cooper-Biology Editor• Jeff Bell-Biology Editor• Jim Rutledge-Math Editor

• Technical Development Coordinators• SERC-Sean Fox• MERLOT-Alyssa Lalanne

• Project Management• SERC-Bill Bruihler• Cathy Swift-Editorial Board Chair



MERLOT implementation• Phase 1 (virtually finished): develop demonstration

implementation and solve technical linking• MERLOT Biology Community• MERLOT Math Community• Integrated Portal

• Phase 2: • Develop well-populated collections in Bio and Math• Enage other disciplines

http://biology.merlot.org/

http://mathematics.merlot.org/

http://serc.carleton.edu/sp/merlot/infotech/index.html



Phase 2• Implementing additional disciplinary portals• Step 1: identify pedagogic methods of high interest

Pedagogic Modules (start small 1-2)

• Step 2: contact us ([email protected]) • Step 3: create a set of examples that use MERLOT

resources with these methodsActivity Submission Form

• Step 4: make links from community Teaching and Resource portals (see for example MERLOT Biology

• Growing the example collections



Growing the example collections: Getting to 100

Strategies

• Write them yourself• Solicit from disciplinary community

• Target previous assignment authors

• Targeted invitations to meet identified need• Workshop process

• MERLOT meeting • Elsewhere



Acknowledgement: This project is supported by the National Science Foundation as

part of the National Science Digital Library through award 0532768. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the

National Science Foundation.



MERLOT/SERC Partnership• MERLOT contains links to thousands of educational

websites, many with peer reviews and assignments.

• SERC brings a significant collection of geoscience content with a well defined pedagogic format, focusing on the use of individual activities in the classroom.

• Partnering MERLOT and SERC builds on the strengths of both programs.

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