MERLOT 101: Everything you need to know to hit the ground running Barbra Bied Sperling Manager of Technical Development and MERLOT Webmaster

Your Expectations  What do you hope to get out of today’s session?  What issues are top of mind for you?

The value of MERLOT  FREE and open digital library of online teaching and learning materials  Consortium of higher ed. institutions, professional societies, digital libraries, corporations & organizations supporting educational improvement through technology  FREE and open community to share, advise, evaluate online teaching & learning materials

MERLOT Metrics Registered Members –62, ,200/month Higher Ed faculty, administrators, K-12 teachers, students, continuing education Materials –20,300~ –2,400+ ~ Peer Reviewed –12,300 ~ in “Personal Collections” – ~ 3,000 materials with member comments Usage –150,000 average unique visits per month

MERLOT Communities

MERLOT Portals

A tour of the MERLOT Vineyard

Are you a member of MERLOT? Why you should join?

Why should I join MERLOT?  Contribute learning materials, comments and assignments  Create personal collections  Develop a personal profile and create a CV  Share your online expertise with others  Receive peer recognition  Become a guest speaker  Submit Publication to JOLT  Join an Editorial Board - Become a Peer Reviewer  Find others in your discipline

Where do I join?

What happens when I log in?

Updating your profile

Your MERLOT Profile

Want to change what you just added? We will save these for a future presentation. Update your profile

It’s important to share: Contribute to MERLOT

Many places to contribute

What do I need to contribute?  Enter the title and URL  Describe the material, material type and audience  Identify the subject category and language(s)  Add author information (if you know it)  Add any extra tech information to help a user

An easy 5-step process to contribute

The finished product – a detailed view

You can also add comments and assignments

Find materials and members in MERLOT

MERLOT Federated Search

What is a Personal Collection?

Create a personal collection

Personal Collection

Others Personal Collections

Copy a collection as your own

Need Guest Experts? Virtual Speakers Bureau can help

Virtual Speakers Bureau Find other Guest Experts that can help you

VSB Profile

Recognizing Your Efforts

To increase the number of faculty who successfully use academic technology in higher education To achieve a “15% solution” where 150,000 faculty of the 1 million faculty members in North America are certified as having demonstrated skills in academic technology within 5 yrs 15% Solution Goals

15% Solution  Ribbons of recognition  Provides recognition for faculty capabilities and performance  Provides accountability for institutions  Provides academically acceptable mechanism/process that is motivational

15% Solution Recognition Contribute materials Add comments Submit assignments Create personal collections Join the VSB Become a peer reviewer Author materials

And there’s still so much more to MERLOT…

RSS Feeds in MERLOT  Any query can become an RSS feed  Syndicates any query into reader of choice (Outlook)

Share a material with a friend

MERLOT Mobile Search BlackBerry application

MERLOT Voices