Cultivating a Taste for MERLOT: How to Enhance Faculty Development on Your Campus

Idana Hamilton (Southwest Virginia CC) & John Prusch (Excelsior College)

MERLOT Faculty Development Editorial Board

Today’s Agenda

Here’s what we have in mind:

• Let’s get acquainted

• Overview of MERLOT

• Join MERLOT or Take a Break (or both)

• Get the Most of MERLOT

• Wrap Up

Workshop Outcomes

At the end of this workshop you should be able to :

1. Identify and briefly describe 5-7 advantages MERLOT offers for Faculty Development

2. Browse and explore the collection and website, including the portals, without getting lost ;-)

3. Complete a successful search, advanced search, and federated search for resources

4. Create and share your own Personal Collection

5. Add a comment or assignment for a learning material

6. Contribute a new resource to the MERLOT collection

7. Locate a Guest Expert and/or join the Virtual Speakers Bureau

8. Know where & how to Jumpstart Your CV

9. Discuss a Peer Review and its process

10. Hold your own workshop, mini-workshop, presentation or informal panel talk about MERLOT on your campus

MERLOT Offers More…

…for Faculty Development

Your Name, Title, Campus & MERLOT Affiliation

What do you expect to get out of this workshop?

Overview of MERLOT

• What is MERLOT?

• Take a Guided Tour of MERLOT

• Let’s Look at an Example Resource

What is MERLOT?

• A Collection of Resources: repository, digital library, learning materials & objects, comments, assignments, snap shots, online journal, peer reviews

• A Community: Members, Partners, Boards & Disciplines, Workforce Development, ePortfolio, GLOBE, CATS, MIC

• A Cooperative of Services: Teaching Commons, 15% Solution, Virtual Speakers Bureau, Jumpstart Your CV, Personal Collections, Portals, Campus Workshops

What is MERLOT?---A Collection of Resources

• Browse the Collection

• Search Materials

• Learn about the MERLOT International Conference

• View the Subject Categories Index

• Visit a Discipline or Program Community Portal

• Browse Learning Materials

• Find Expert Colleagues

• View Personal Collections

• Get Assignments

• Locate Guest Experts

• Read Comments and Peer Reviews

• Become a Member

• Contribute Learning Materials

• Create a Personal Collection

• Develop a Personal Profile

• Make Comments

• Submit Assignments & Snapshots

• Join the Virtual Speakers Bureau

• Become a Peer Reviewer

• Share Your Online Expertise

• Receive Peer Recognition

A Place Where You Can: Also an Opportunity to

What is MERLOT?---A Community

• 48000-plus Members

• Dozens of Partners

• 15–plus Editorial Boards, an Editors Council; Discipline, Workforce, and Special Interest Communities, Project Directors, and Advisory Board

• A couple handfuls of MERLOT Staff

Personal Collections:

can be easily created & accessed by any MERLOT Member to use for specific purposes, classes or topics.

15% Solution:

certifies the Academic Technology Competencies of MERLOT Members

What is MERLOT? --- A Cooperative of Services

Teaching Commons for Partners:

provides faculty a discipline-based, institutionally contextualized professional development program

Portals:

•Discipline Specific

•Workforce Development

•Special Interest

Campus Workshops

MERLOT Technologies

Virtual Speakers Bureau:

where you search for, locate, and invite guest speakers to your courses, professional development workshops,

and special online events.

Jumpstart Your CV

Take a Guided Tour of MERLOT

Let’s Look at an Example Resource

• MERLOT Classics Award Winner 2006 Faculty Development

• Free Resource for Assessment

• Simple to Use and Effective

Join MERLOT, Take a Break---or Do Both!http://www.merlot.org

It’s Your Choice.

Get the Most from MERLOT

Now it’s your turn to

• Browse the collection and website

• Complete a successful search, advanced search, and federated search

• Create and share your own Personal Collection

• Add a comment or assignment for a learning material

• Contribute a new resource to the MERLOT collection

• Locate a Guest Expert and/or join the Virtual Speakers Bureau

• Know where & how to Jumpstart Your CV

• Discuss a Peer Review and its process

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The Art of Browsing

One way to discover MERLOT is to browse the collection and website.

photo: Stuart Yeates

Searching Successfully

Another way for you to get the most of MERLOT is to try out the search, advanced search, and federated search features of the website.

Personal & Department Collections

Create collections of resources for yourself and others

photo: ImipolexG

Adding Your Own 2¢ and Learning Assignments

A couple ways you can personally contribute to MERLOT

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Contributing to the Collection

It’s easy and rewarding to participate in MERLOT. What materials do you already have on hand to share?

Contact Expert Colleagues or Invite a Guest Speaker

The Peer Review Process

Peer Reviews are designed to help faculty determine the quality of the learning materials in the MERLOT collection and their relevance and applicability to the courses they teach.

******Reviewer Training Workshop (Wed 10-12, Bourgne)Presenters: Nancy Konigsberg Kerner, William Paquette

MERLOT Treasure Hunt

To begin, go to the Faculty Development Portal: Welcome New Peer Reviewers page

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Wrap Up and Next Steps

Photo: Steven Parker

MERLOT 101

Thank You For Attending Our Workshop!