MERLOT: Serving Open Education Resources and Expertise

1. MERLOT: Serving Open Education Resources and Expertise Gerry Hanley, Ph.D. MERLOT and California State University August 18, 2006

2. What’s MERLOT? Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning & Online Teaching A free and open community for all who use, share, advise & evaluate online teaching and learning expertise & materials A free digital library of online teaching and learning materials and expertise that is open for all to use A consortium of higher education institutions, professional societies, digital libraries, corporations, and other organizations supporting educational improvement through technology http://www.merlot.org/

3. Example of a MERLOT material: Static image of a simulation; The real simulation allows users to change pressure, temperature, and volume and measure the speed of particles.

4. Expertise on teaching Latin. Experienced teachers share strategies for success.

9. Collection Metrics

10. People Metrics • USERS: People who anonymously visit the MERLOT website. In 2006…. • Average 66,000+ Users per month • MEMBERS: People who have registered themselves as members of MERLOT • 36,000+ members, growing at about 800 per month • WHO’S Using MERLOT? • Higher Ed Faculty, K-12 teachers, students, workforce development programs, life-long learners

11. Community Metrics MERLOT is a sustained consortium of higher education institutions collaboratively managed by its members

12. Our Other Partners • Increasing access to collections with other Digital Libraries • Edna (Australia) - ARIADNE (EU) • CAUSE (statistics) - COMPadre (physics) • NIME (Japan) - Journal of Chemical Education • O’Reilly Media (IT) - UNC Professional Development • NSDL (Sciences) - IEEE Computer Society • Partnering with Higher Education Organizations • EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative - TLT Group • New Media Consortium - NASA-JPL • Carnegie Foundation - Nanotechnology Hub • Partnering with Learning Management Systems • Blackboard - WebCT - Angel Learning • Desire2Learn - Epsilen - Moodle* - Saki* • Technology Corporations supporting us • O’Reilly Media - Adobe -Sun Microsystems - MIC Sponsors

13. Opportunities for India & MERLOT • Add India-authored resources to the MERLOT collection • MERLOT will build out the taxonomy for India content • Join MERLOT consortium and participate in the communities use and evaluation of online resources and expertise • Use MERLOT resources and expertise for advancing India’s primary, secondary, and teritary education programs • Create a MERLOT-India Community Portal(s) for India to manage themselves to achieve their goals

14. Digital Marketplace VISION: Establish an electronic exchange and commerce trading presence to share, sell, and distribute academic technology goods, and educational content and services to the CSU and subsequently to other institutions of higher education. SCOPE OF IMPACT: Worldwide Service SCOPE OF WORK: Phased and Focused

15. Digital Marketplace Village • Formality • Structure • Standards • Regulations Department Store - Commerce Library - Public Interest Farmers Market - Exchange/sale Community Park - Share Warranty & implied quality assurance • City Managers & Professional Staff • Provide infrastructure, operations and services • Town Council • Provide policies, laws, etc. As presented April, 2006

16. What are the Benefits? • Enable student success through availability of learning resources • Deliver accessible (508 compliant) educational content conveniently • Facilitate graduation • Reduce the cost to students to acquire education content and technology • Provide students greater choice in finding and organizing content to meet their learning needs • Provide faculty greater choice in designing curriculum using free to fee-based content • Provide a convenient and efficient one-stop, web-based e-Business procurement process • Expand and simplify the means by which providers of all content types can reach their intended consumers

17. Content Publisher (1) Content Publisher Content Provider Content Hosting Facility Content Hosting Facility Clearing House Retailer (4) Retailer Retailer (5) (2) Users (3) How the Digital Marketplace might work 1: Content provider publishes content to hosting facility, informs retailers, informs clearing house 2: Retailer promotes content, user browses and acquires content from retailer, retailer informs clearing house 3: User receives permissions for content usage from clearing house 4: User received protected content from hosting facility 5: Clearing house handles billing and attribution

18. Merlot LOR Directory & Federated Search Content Preview Application Ecommerce Application DRM Application DRM Application Delivery Application Farmers Market Campus based Content cache The First Integration Point is the LMS Dept Store . Web Services LMS LMS Community Park

19. Moving From… Your Campus Community & Academic Success Mass = 1

20. To Here…. Mass = Effective and Efficient Educational Practices to Change the World Mass = MERLOT Community

22. Effective Education Requires: • Content + Instructional Methods + Assessment of Student Performance on Assignments • What else is critical? Institutional Context • What are my talents and capabilities as a teacher? • Who are my students and what are their capabilities and needs? • What are the course, department, and college requirements that I need to satisfy? • How much time and resources do I and my students have to achieve our course goals?

23. MERLOT Teaching Commons: • Faculty sharing, evaluating, and augmenting teaching and learning resources and strategies • Faculty leaders organizing and disseminating best practices so they become common practices • Administrators engaging the faculty in campus and system-level initiatives in timely and effective ways

24. Customized MERLOT Institutional Portals: Building Locally, Linking Globally http://www.cdl.edu/projects/csu_teaching_business/