Enhance and Enliven your Teaching and Learning with MERLOT Resources

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Enhance and Enliven your Teaching and Learning
with MERLOT Resources

• James J. Rutledge
• St. Petersburg College
• ITC e-Learning 2008
• rutledge.james_at_spcollege.edu
• www.spcollege.edu/spg/math/rutledge

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MERLOT--Multimedia Educational Resource for
Learning and Online Teaching

• www.merlot.org
• Community of educators and students
• Digital library (referatory)
• Primarily college-level materials
• Easily searchable
• Peer reviews and other annotations
• Member services

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MERLOT Statistics

• Continued growth and development since 1997
  (California State Univ.)
• Over 55,000 members over 18,000 learning
  materials
• Numerous partnerships and collaborations higher
  ed professional
• LMS Interfaces Blackboard, ANGEL, Desire2Learn,
  Moodle

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MERLOT Learning Materials

• www.merlot.org
• Peer reviews
• Categorization schemes
• Search and Advanced Search tools
• Assignments
• SERC activity sheets

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MERLOT Editors Choice and Classics Award winners

• www.merlot.org
• http//taste.merlot.org/MERLOTAwards/ExemplaryLear
  ningMaterials.html
• Many disciplines Math, Statistics, Physics,
  Chemistry, Engineering, Biology, Music, Teacher
  Education, Faculty Development, Health Sciences,
  World Languages, History, Information Technology,
  and more

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MERLOT Community Portals

• www.merlot.org Discipline Communities
• http//mathematics.merlot.org
• Teaching
• People
• Learning Materials
• Beyond MERLOT
• Showcase

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MERLOT Personal Collections

• Personal collections
• Example
• Department collections
• Spcmath example
• Instructions for creating collections
• http//mathematics.merlot.org/TeachingPersonalColl
  ections.html

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MERLOT SERC Pedagogy in Action

• SERC portal Pedagogy in Action
• http//serc.carleton.edu/sp/index.html
• Index of Math learning activities
• http//serc.carleton.edu/sp/merlot/math/index.html
  
• Browse the Math Pedagogic Collection
• http//serc.carleton.edu/sp/merlot/math/activities
  .html
• Develop and submit Math activities
• http//serc.carleton.edu/sp/merlot/math/devactivit
  ies/index.html
• MERLOT Biology Physics, World Languages

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JOLTJournal of Online Learning and Teaching

• http//jolt.merlot.org/
• First quarterly issue July, 2005
• 2000 visitors per month in 2007 from over 80
  countries
• Special issue in Summer, 2008 Next Generation
  Learning/Course Management Systems

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Other MERLOT Features

• Virtual Speakers Bureau
• http//taste.merlot.org/becomevsb.html
• The Grapevine Newsletter
• http//taste.merlot.org/newsletters.html
• RSS feeds
• http//www.merlot.org/merlot/rss.htm

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How to Participate/Contribute

• Join MERLOT free membership
• Submit your own learning materials
• Submit assignments, Pedagogic Collection learning
  activities, member comments
• Create a Personal Profile
• Create Personal Collections
• Become a peer reviewer
• Attend the MERLOT International Conference

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Enhance and Enliven your Teaching and Learning
with MERLOT Resources

• James J. Rutledge
• St. Petersburg College
• ITC e-Learning 2008
• rutledge.james_at_spcollege.edu
• www.spcollege.edu/spg/math/rutledge