Effective Use of MERLOT: An Overview Barbra Bied Sperling Manager of Technical Development, MERLOT California State University, Office of the Chancellor MEITAL 2009: The Open Knowledge World 7 th 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+ 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

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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

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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)

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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

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MERLOT’s new authoring tool: Content 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

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