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Accessing Quality Content: Understanding and Using
MERLOT
Gilbane ConferenceRegan Caruthers
Office of the Chancellor, California State University
April 11, 2007
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Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning & Online Teaching
A free and open community for all who use, share, advise & evaluate online teaching and learning materials
A free digital library of online teaching and learning materials 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/
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Today# of Materials in MERLOT 16,000
+“Persistence” 98.2%# of Peer Reviews Posted 2,000+% of Materials Under Review
73%
# of Members w/ Personal Collections
3,500+
Collection Metrics
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People Metrics• USERS: People who anonymously
visit the MERLOT website. In 2005….– Average 66,000+ Users per month
• MEMBERS: People who have registered themselves as members of MERLOT– 43,000+ members, growing at about
1200 per month;student membership increasing 8,200 members
• WHO’S Using MERLOT?– Higher Ed Faculty, K-12 teachers,
students, workforce development programs, life-long learners
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Community Metrics
MERLOT is a sustained consortium of higher ed institutions collaborative managed by its members
Type of Participation Number
State System Level - $25K per year
16
Campus Level - $6.5K per year
10
Editorial Boards 15+
Editorial Board Members 100/163+
Administrative Team Members
9
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• Increasing access to collections with other Digital Libraries– Edna (Australia) - ARIADNE (EU)– CAUSE (statistics) - COMPadre (physics)– SMETE (sciences) - Journal of Chemical Education– O’Reilly Media (IT) - Internet Scout (Workforce Dev)– NSDL (Sciences)
• 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 - Moodle - Saki - Epsilon
• Technology Corporations supporting us– Sun Microsystems - Adobe -O’Reilly Media
Our Other Partners
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Today’s Services with Partners
• Institutional Strategy: Academic commons for engaging and serving the needs of multiple segments of your campus community
• Professional Development Strategies: Customizable services you bring home with minimal operational overhead
• Accountability: Making visible the hidden talents and expertise of your personnel
• Leadership projects that leverage the expertise and resources of our partners
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Accelerate Delivery of Online ProgramsPhil Moss, Chancellor, Oklahoma State Regents
for Higher Education“Tens of thousands of Oklahomans have completed
more than two years of college, but have not finished a degree. The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education have initiated a project to help citizens complete a bachelor’s degree through an innovative statewide approach involving public universities. Collaborative curriculum development, learning materials, faculty development, and technology will be important components in this effort to help working adults complete a degree. We will be institutionalizing use of MERLOT as a key tool in advancing this project.”
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ROI
Robbie Melton, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Educational Technology,
“We have determined that our system investment for the resources provided by MERLOT, in terms of 24 x 7 professional development and accessibility to the learning objects, comes to around $3.00 for each of our faculty members who indicated that they used MERLOT. No one should be able to debate the cost effectiveness of this partnership”.
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Moving From…
Your Campus Community &
Academic Success
Mass = 1
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To Here….
Mass = MERLOT Community
Mass = Effective and Efficient Educational Practices to Change the World
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