Barbra Bied Sperling, Manager of Technical Development

California State University, Office of the Chancellor

MERLOT: An Open Education Resource Tool for Learning and

Online Teaching

www.merlot.org

MERLOT

Premiere online international community of faculty, staff, and student

(Users, Members, and Consortium Partners)

from around the world who share their pedagogy and repository-based

Learning Objects, Open Courses, Open Access Textbooks, and Open Access Journal articles

www.merlot.org

MERLOT II is managed by the MERLOT Community

What Is Unique about the MERLOT Collection?

A referatory of metadata of over 46,000 OER’s for teaching and learning submitted by educators.

Peer-Review methodologies set us apart in the literature (vs i.e. Google search of Geometry)

Across Disciplines; World-wide, Multi-language

All levels of Education

We have been around for 17 years (longer than most) with worldwide membership and usage, including International Partners.

We are partnering with QM (Quality Matters) to develop focused rubrics and methodologies for online courses and modules, specifically.

Sample of MERLOT resource metada • Title

• URL (including mirror/display image)

• Description

• Material type (18+)

• Primary Audience

• Language

• Keywords

• Subject Categories (disciplines)

• Author Information

• Technical Format

• Technical Requirements

• Mobile platforms

• Creative Commons

• Cost

• Accessiblity

LRMI: MERLOT and Curation of resource metada

• LRMI tags added to MERLOT material detail page to make our content more discoverable

• Members add: • Ratings

• Comments and Discussions

• Personal Collections

• Editorial Boards • Peer Review Process

One of our 46,000+ materials. The Quality Box: That’s how we get OERs curated - by our Editors/peer reviewers and our members. We consider personal collections an good indicator of quality.

MERLOT is so much more… MERLOTx – www.merlotx.org - Student Centered/Faculty Usable online

help

Affordable Learning Solutions

Content Builder - MERLOT JOLT (Journal of Online Learning and Teaching). A quick and easy way to create [hosted] learning materials as web pages and web sites that you can use for instructional purposes

MERLOT API’s to integrate LMS’s and other applications

Mobile Search Apps (iOS, Android, Blackberry)

MERLOT Discipline Communities and Partner Communities for collaboration

MERLOT Voices (community discussions)

• MERLOT Blog (blog.merlot.org)

• Discussions for every material

• MERLOT YouTube Education Channel

• MERLOT Grapevine Newsletter

• Social Networking (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn)

Contact Information

Barbra Bied Sperling

Manager of Technical Development, MERLOT

www.merlot.org

bsperling@calstate.edu

562.951.8488