Gerard L. Hanley, Ph.D. Executive Director, MERLOT Senior Director, California State University

1. Sharing Learning Objects: Serving MERLOT to Higher Education Gerard L. Hanley, Ph.D. Executive Director, MERLOT Senior Director, California State University New Media Consortia Online Conference October 13, 2003

2. Setting Expectations Leveraging the Faculty Culture Heavy Lifting with MERLOT A Tour Through the Vineyard MERLOT Metrics How the MERLOT Community Works Leveraging the Administrator’s Culture

3. The Physics of Leveraging Academia orWhy Our Jobs Are So Difficult

4. Is this YOU? Your Campus Community & Academic Culture Mass = 1

5. What are your options? Academic Recognition Focus on People Add weight to your forces Reduce what you have to lift Strengthen the lever Tenure & Promotion Processes Move the fulcrum closer to object Academic Initiatives: MERLOT

6. Taking a Tour Through the MERLOT Vineyard MERLOT’S VISIONBe a premier online community where faculty, staff, and students from around the world share teaching-learning materials and pedagogy. www.merlot.org

14. MERLOT METRICS

15. Usage Continues to Grow

16. MERLOT’s People Metrics

17. Growth of MERLOT Collection * = MERLOT curated the collection and removed “dead links”.

18. How MERLOT Works Bringing Faculty, Staff, Students, and Administrators to Work Together Individually

19. Faculty Students Administrators Staff Programs Delivering Resources and Services Peer Review MERLOT Conferences Partners/Alliances Website Strategic Priorities Digital Library Resources & Services Professional Development Collaboration & Community Enabling Technologies MERLOT Members and Users Alliance Partners and Professional Societies MERLOT Editorial Boards System Partners & Campus Partners Sustaining Partners Advisory Board Administrative Team

20. Mobilizing Educational Community: Higher Education Institutions System Partners: • California Community College System • California State University • EduSource.canada • Illinois Board of Higher Education • Louisiana Board of Regents • Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education • South Dakota Board of Regents • State University of New York • Tennessee Board of Regents • Troy State University • University of Michigan • University of North Carolina • University System of Georgia • University of Wisconsin System • Virginia Community College • System • WICHE, Western Cooperative for • Educational Telecommunications

21. System Partner Contributions $25K annual fee $50K-$100K In-kind support for their faculty participation Dissemination and Outreach Faculty Development Activities Integration of MERLOT into existing academic technology initiatives Additional Levels of Participation - Campus Partners: Coastal Carolina University Cornell University Ohio University St. Petersburg College Seton Hall University Contributions of Partnership:

22. Cooperative Economics To Change the World Forces Together we can leverage change Large Number of Feasible Fees 21 Systems and Institutions = $450K 5 NSF grants & subcontracts = $350K In-Kind Contributions = $1.7M (est.) Conference Fees = $65K Fulcrum CSU Management = $450K Lever

23. MERLOT’s Organizational Partners

24. MERLOT Supports Higher Ed Culture • MERLOT provides QUALITY REVIEWS • Standards-based evaluation • Independent panel of experts • Training for the reliable application of standards • MERLOT provides USER SERVICES • Free and reliable access to a digital library of online resources • An electronic portfolio can be created within MERLOT • Teaching and Course Portfolios • MERLOT provides RECOGNITION • Documentation for Authors, Contributors, Reviewers, and Users MERLOT Supports Tenure and Promotion Reviews

25. Administering MERLOT to Administrators Administrators must be served well by MERLOT if Teachers are to be served

26. Administrative Constraints • Never enough money • Never enough space • Minimal information to inform decision making • Very difficult to speed up change • Distributed authority • Personnelissues • You are responsiblefor all things great and small (and people are ready to blame you when things go wrong)

27. The MERLOT Fulcrum:Faster, Cheaper, Better, Fairly • Improve Quality Assurance • MERLOT provides peer reviews with guidance on use • Fairness Across Disciplines and Faculty • MERLOT serves new, veteran, techies, non-techies, full-time and adjunct faculty- all at different states of professional development • Increase Speed of Development and Use • MERLOT provides infrastructure for rapid growth in the quantity of reusable curriculum that can be found easily and incorporated into faculty designed courses • Reduce Cost • MERLOT shares costs for assigned time, training, technical support and management

28. What Makes The MERLOT Cooperative Work? • We Create Common Means to Individual Ends • You Get More Than You Give • You Have a Fair Share in Decision Making and Participation • We Hold True to Academic Values • We Provide Visibility, Accountability & Sustainability • You TRUST Us to Deliver High Quality Services

29. Next Steps Are The Ones We Take Together!Gerard L. Hanley, Ph.D. ghanley@merlot.orgGraphic Design by Rachel S. Smith, CSU Center for Distributed Learning