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From Door to Door Partners and Potentials

From Door to Door Partners and Potentials. Sorel Reisman, Ph.D. Managing Director, MERLOT California State University, Office of the Chancellor Professor, Information Systems California State University, Fullerton sreisman@calstate.edu.

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From Door to Door Partners and Potentials

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  1. From Door to Door Partners and Potentials Sorel Reisman, Ph.D. • Managing Director, MERLOT • California State University, Office of the Chancellor • Professor, Information Systems • California State University, Fullerton • sreisman@calstate.edu MEITAL 2009: The Open Knowledge World7th Annual MEITAL National Conference

  2. What is MERLOT • MEITAL & MERLOT Partners • Participating in an International Community • The Importance of Openness & Sharing • Doors • Discussion, Questions, (Answers) Outline

  3. WHAT IS MERLOT? MULTIMEDIA EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE FOR LEARNING AND ONLINE TEACHING

  4. MERLOT's vision is to be a premiere online community where faculty, staff, and students from around the world share their learning materials and pedagogy.

  5. WWW.MERLOT.ORG

  6. MERLOT Repository • Registered Members* • 75,000 ~ growing @ 1,000/month • Materials • 21,150+ • 2,800 ~ Peer Reviewed • 9,256 materials in “Personal Collections” • 3,288 materials with member comments • Usage • ~ 150,000 average unique visits per month * October 6, 2009

  7. Always Find What’s New

  8. HOW AND WHYMEITAL AND MERLOTARE PARTNERS

  9. MERLOT/MEITAL How We Got HereA History Lesson – The Power of 40 • 40 days and 40 nights of rain – Noah • 40 days on Mt Sinai - Moses • 40 years in the desert – Israelites • 40 days before G-d would destroy Nineveh - Jonah • 40 X 100+ days of negotiations – MEITAL AND STILL COUNTING!!

  10. “MERLOT and MAOR recognize the significant set of shared values, mission, goals, and constituencies of their organizations. Cooperatively developing plans and implementing programs to serve our constituencies would be mutually beneficial to both parties and their constituencies. This MOU articulates the commitments that MERLOT and MAOR will make to work cooperatively.” MERLOT and MAOR agree on the following principles: Our Shared Values: The diverse members of the educational community must guide the development of online resources and services that will enable the success of education. Collaboration is required for successfully transforming learning, education, and training. Technology, appropriately developed and applied, can provide innovative means for the education community to improve teaching and learning. Our Shared Mission & Goals: To improve the efficacy of teaching and learning by expanding the quantity and increasing the quality of online learning materials and services that can be easily incorporated into educational programs. Our Shared Constituencies Our constituencies encompass teaching faculty, students, and technology staff who support the teaching and learning process in higher education. Memorandum of Understanding Signed: June, 2009

  11. Partners in anInternational Community • MERLOT Africa Network: Consortium of 12 higher education institutions in different African countries • MERLOT Chile (INACAP) • MERLOT and India for Teacher Education (Lucknow University)

  12. MERLOT Partners Relations • Available in MERLOT.ORG’s • “Teaching Commons” • Construct of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching • A Partner’s “Local Identify for Global Linking”

  13. Teaching Commons

  14. Our Newest Partner MEITAL/MAOR

  15. http://maor.iucc.ac.il

  16. International Extensions GLOBE (Global Learning Object Brokered Exchange) Connecting digital libraries from: “Organizations from around the world have formed a global alliance to make shared online learning resources available to educators and students around the world.”

  17. FEDERATED SEARCH

  18. More about GLOBE via MERLOT About Us MERLOT Federated Search http://www.globe-info.org MERLOT Community

  19. The Importance of Openness & Sharing

  20. Why is OPEN Important? • Openness enables us to reuse, recycle, and/or build upon other people’s work, materials, & expertise • Openness makes putting educational innovations into practice easier • Openness is the academic way But be sure to provide appropriate attribution!!

  21. Open Education Resources (OER) • “Open Educational Resources" – term first adopted at UNESCO 2002 Forum on the Impact of Open Courseware for Higher Education in Developing Countries • Forum funded by William & Flora Hewlett Fdn

  22. http://www.ocwconsortium.org

  23. MERLOT & Open Courseware

  24. MERLOT & Open Courseware

  25. MERLOT & Open Courseware

  26. MERLOT & Open Courseware

  27. Creative Commons & MERLOT • MERLOT Encourages reuse and sharing of learning materials • MERLOT wants to protect Members’ IP • MERLOT endorses/recommends Creative Commons licensing for submitted materials • MERLOT requires Creative Commons licensing of materials developed by Content Creator for MERLOT-hosted materials CC License – Attribution, non commercial, share alike

  28. http://creativecommons.org To find the right license

  29. Contributing for Sharing & Reuse

  30. “content creator” Publish in Content Builder”

  31. In MERLOT Voices (voices.merlot.org)

  32. In MERLOT’s YouTube Channel (youtube.com/MERLOTPlace.)

  33. We Practice What We Preach THERE ARE MANY KINDS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN MERLOT CREATED/OWNED BY DIFFERENT KINDS OF PARTICIPANTS

  34. FROM DOOR TO DOOR מדור לדור

  35. הדור הזה

  36. MEITAL’S NEEDS Web Service #1 Web Service #4 (new) : : Web Service #2 Web Service #3 Web Service #N (new) More access to MERLOT functionality more and more Web Services

  37. The Only Solution • Re-architect a new generation of MERLOT • Requirements are being gathered • Working with MEITAL and other partners • Development likely to take place with a new MERLOT “Corporate Partner” – Sify Technologies הדור הבא

  38. ועוד דור Clive teaching commons

  39. The MERLOT 3D Campus

  40. MEITAL’S Leadership of MERLOT in Israel • Collaborative partnership bringing innovation to the world • Build Locally - Link Globally • Language of resources is essential • Cultural and organizational context brings relevance to the Partner’s member-constituency • MEITAL is providing leadership for communicating a vision, developing people’s confidence in using academic technologies and encouraging innovation from a position of trust

  41. תודה רבה שאלות רק באנגלית

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