MERLOT 101:

Everything you need to know to hit the ground running

Barbra Bied Sperling

MERLOT Manager of Technical Development

Your expectations for today

What do you hope to get out of today’s session?

What issues are top of mind for you?

MERLOT’s Vision

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.

MERLOT SupportsCreative Commons

MERLOT strongly endorses and recommends Creative Commons

licensing to encourage the sharing and reuse of online

learning materials while protecting Members’ work from

misuse and abuse.

MERLOT Repository

• Registered Members*– 72,244+ growing @ 1,000/month

• Materials– 20,995– 2,818 ~ Peer Reviewed– 9,109 materials in “Personal Collections”– 3,234 materials with member comments

• Usage~ 150,000 average unique visits per month

*August 1, 2009

Always find what’s new

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Are you a member of Are you a member of MERLOT? MERLOT?

Why you should join?Why you should join?

Why join MERLOT?

Create personal collections

Contribute materials, comments, and learning exercises

Develop a personal profile and create a CV

Share online expertise with others

Receive peer recognition

Become a guest speaker

Join an Editorial Board - Become a Peer Reviewer

Find others in a discipline

How do you join?

A profile is create

I’m logged in, now what?

Updating your profileUpdating your profile

Update your profile

Want to change what you just added?

We will save these for a future presentation.

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Identify your language

Find materials and members Find materials and members in MERLOT in MERLOT

Search and browse MERLOT

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Search for members by their affiliation

Federated Search

Federated Search results

RSS Feeds in MERLOT

Any search can become an RSS feed

MERLOT Communities

Discipline Community Portal

Teaching Commons

It’s important to share:It’s important to share:

Contribute to MERLOTContribute to MERLOT

Contribute learning materials

All you need are a few details

5 step wizard to enter all your metadata including:

Enter the title and URL Describe the material, material type, audience and keywords (include formatting with text editor) Identify the subject category and language(s) Add author information (if you know it) Any extra information to help a user including creative commons

The finished product! Detail view

Add a comment or learning exercise (previously known as an assignment)

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Member Comments

Organize your materials:Organize your materials:Personal CollectionsPersonal Collections

Personal Collections

How do I create a collection?

Where can I find collections?

Like someone else's collection?

And there’s still so much And there’s still so much more to MERLOT…more to MERLOT…

Recognizing Your Efforts

Ribbons of recognition

Provides recognition for faculty capabilities and performance

Provides accountability for institutions

Provides academically acceptable mechanism/process that is motivational

How you get recognized

• Contribute materials

• Add comments

• Submit assignments

• Create personal collections

• Join the VSB

• Become a peer reviewer

• Author materials

Share a material with a friend

Report a broken link to us

Need Guest Experts? Need Guest Experts? Virtual Speakers Bureau Virtual Speakers Bureau

can helpcan help

Virtual Speakers Bureau

Find other Guest Experts that can

help you or become a VSB

member yourself

Virtual Speakers Bureau profile

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Questions and Discussion