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Integrating MERLOT with the Blackboard Community

Integrating MERLOT with the Blackboard Community. Dr. Sorel Reisman Managing Director, MERLOT. Presentation Overview. Overview of MERLOT LMS Initiative MERLOT Building Block Administrator’s Perspective Instructor’s Perspective A Comment on MERLOT PowerLink Questions. What is MERLOT?.

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Integrating MERLOT with the Blackboard Community

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  1. Integrating MERLOT with the Blackboard Community Dr. Sorel Reisman Managing Director, MERLOT

  2. Presentation Overview • Overview of MERLOT • LMS Initiative • MERLOT Building Block • Administrator’s Perspective • Instructor’s Perspective • A Comment on MERLOT PowerLink • Questions

  3. What is MERLOT? A user-centered, searchable database of online learning materials, pedagogical support, and participants based on: • COMMUNITY COOPERATIVES • Institutional Partners • Organizational Affiliates • Individual Members • PROCESSES • Building, organizing, reviewing, and developing applications of online teaching-learning materials • Building and sustaining online academic communities. • SOFTWARE • WWW.MERLOT.ORG

  4. MERLOT Homepage

  5. MERLOT Metrics • REGISTERED MEMBERS • Higher Ed Faculty, K-12 teachers, students, workforce development programs, librarians, administrators, life-long learners • 47,000+ members, growing at about 1,200/month • 12,000+ Student Members (25%) • MATERIALS • 17,000+ as of June 15 • 2,300+ Peer Reviewed • 7,300+ in Personal Collections • 4,600+ with Member comments • 975+ assignments • USAGE • Average 67,500+ Users per month • 130 VSB Guest experts

  6. Search Services Some MERLOT Services • Website Services • Personal Collections & Virtual Speakers Bureau • Communities and Portals • 16 disciplines and growing • Workforce Development Communities • Institutional Teaching Commons • Carnegie Foundation – Snapshots • Vineyard & Grapevine • JOLT • MERLOT International Conference

  7. MERLOT LMS Initiative

  8. Partner Objectives • Companies provide institutions content-free LMS infrastructure • Companies want outstanding reference examples of utility of their system over competition • Companies seek strategic alliances with content partners to demonstrate their products’ superiority • All MERLOT partners consider MERLOT a superior source of multi-disciplinary, high quality, academic content

  9. MERLOT Objectives • MERLOT collection and services exposed to hundreds of thousands of higher education instructors/student worldwide. • Increased partnership possibilities • Increased MERLOT membership • Potential for significant growth of collection • MERLOT remains completely “agnostic” and above board

  10. I. Partners search MERLOT Simple Advanced II. MERLOT searches Partners Federated Essence of Relationships

  11. MERLOT Vendor Partners/Projects • Proprietary Vendors • Blackboard • WebCT • Desire2Learn • Angel Learning • Open Source • Moodle • Sakai • University of Toronto - UTutor • Innovative Opportunities • Epsilen Learning Environment • Second Life

  12. Active LMSPartner Functionality Blackboard - Integrated MERLOT Search Building Block WebCT - Integrated MERLOT Search PowerLink Angel Learning - Integrated MERLOT Advanced Search Desire2Learn - Integrated MERLOT Advanced Search Epsilen Learning Environment – Integrated advanced and “semi smart” search UTutor – integrated MERLOT Advanced Search Resulted in 310+ active keys & 152,000 queries in 2006

  13. Repository Federated Search EdNA Online - Education Network Australia ARIADNE - ARIADNE Foundation for the European Knowledge Pool NIME-glad - NIME Gateway to Learning for Ability Development LORNET - Learning Object Repositories NETwork

  14. Discipline Federated Search Physics - MERLOT Physics: ComPADRE Teaching and Technology - MERLOT Teaching and Technology: CATS, and UNC PDP Information Technology - MERLOT Information Technology: IEEE Computer Society

  15. MERLOT LMS “Affiliates” (310+)

  16. Building BlockFreeBuilt by BlackboardPrimary support – BlackboardSecondary support – MERLOT

  17. Blackboard Administrator’s PerspectiveInstalling the Building Block

  18. The Process • Download Building Block from Bb website • Install Building Block on server • Prompted to fill in ‘form/key request’ • Agree to MERLOT terms and click “submit” • Key sent to requestor • Building Block unlocked • Questions: Bb Tech Support

  19. Instructor’s PerspectiveFinding and Using Learning Material

  20. 1. Create Course Folder

  21. 2. Select MERLOT From Drop Down List Select MERLOT

  22. 3. View MERLOT Search Form

  23. 4. Complete Search Form Select keywords & Number of Resutts Select keywords & Number of Resutts Select keywords & Number of results

  24. 5. View Results Link to actual learning material

  25. 6. View Items of Interest (in new window)

  26. 7. Select Items of Interest Two Items Two Items

  27. Standard Blackboard Process

  28. Items Added - Instructor View

  29. Items Added – Learner View

  30. A Comment onMERLOT PowerLink

  31. The WebCT/MERLOT PowerLink • Built by WebCT • Released July, 2006 • Compatible with Vista 3, 4+, CE 6+ • View Appendix

  32. The Future – Web Services • MERLOT-built Building Block(s) • Improved search • Join function • Direct federated and advanced search • Other

  33. QUESTIONS?

  34. APPENDIXWebCT PowerLink/Building Block

  35. The WebCT/MERLOT PowerLink

  36. The WebCT/MERLOT PowerLink

  37. The WebCT/MERLOT PowerLink

  38. The WebCT/MERLOT PowerLink

  39. The WebCT/MERLOT PowerLink

  40. The WebCT/MERLOT PowerLink

  41. The WebCT/MERLOT PowerLink

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