MIC 2007 Reviewer Training Workshop Nancy K. Kerner and William Paquette And MERLOT Discipline Editors

Mission To improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning by expanding the quantity and quality of peer- reviewed online learning materials that can be easily incorporated into faculty-designed courses. MERLOT is a free, web-based resource for Higher Ed.

Organizational History & Evolution NSF funds Authoring Tools and Educational Object Economy project. California State University’s (CSU), Center for Distributed Learning establishes an open multimedia repository. July 2002 Total of 22 higher education system partners with management provided by CSU A collaboration is formed among the CSU System, Univ. of North Carolina System, Univ. of Georgia System, Oklahoma State Regents. July 2000 NSF funds MERLOT as part of the Digital Library initiative.

Organization Evolution August, 2004 Draft letter of intent to build GLOBE GLOBE: Global Learning Object Brokered Exchange to expand the quantity and quality of online educational resources that can be easily incorporated into faculty designed courses. Partnership of digital libraries that have sustained institutional constituents – Federated SearchFederated Search –ARIADNE (European Union), EdNA (Australia), eduSource (Canada), NIME (Japan), MERLOT (US), and other organizations have been identified as potential collaborations, including JISC, SUN, Commonwealth of Nations, etc.

GLOBE: Global Learning Object Brokered Exchange to expand the quantity and quality of online educational resources that can be easily incorporated into faculty designed courses. Partnership of digital libraries that have sustained institutional constituents – Federated SearchFederated Search –ARIADNE (European Union), EdNA (Australia), eduSource (Canada), NIME (Japan), MERLOT (US), and other organizations have been identified as potential collaborations, including JISC, SUN, Commonwealth of Nations, etc.

Growth of MERLOT COLLECTIONDec 2001 Dec 2002 July 2004 July 2006 # of Materials6,7578,8379,80614,582 # of Members ,44536,000 # of Members w/ Personal Collection N/A 2,0446,044 Hits per month710,2161,310,5261,903,938 ~3,000,000 July ,381 48,934 9,605

Editorial Boards 2007 Physics Psychology Statistics (CAUSE) Teaching & Technology Teacher Education World Languages Workforce Development Biology Business Chemistry Criminal Justice Engineering Health Sciences History Information Technology Mathematics Music 24 Editors ~100 Ed. Board Members ~150 volunteer Peer Reviewers

Peer Review Process Author submits item Item triaged No Peer Review 1 Cataloged w/out review Reports consolidated & Peer Review posted Worthy of review? Yes Peer Review 2