1. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT What’s New in MERLOT Theresa Flaherty Cathy Swift AMTP 2006 Hilton Head, SC

2. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT Who Are You? How Many First Timers in MERLOT? Who Knows What MERLOT Stands For? Who Has Used MERLOT to Find Online Learning Materials? Who Has Included MERLOT in Course Instruction?

3. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT MERLOT Where did it come from? What is it? –Online resource –Community of Educators –Software How is it sponsored? What is the sustainability?

4. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT Parties Involved in MERLOT Administration Team Institutional Partner (20) Faculty Discipline Teams (15) –Editors/Co-Editors (21) –Editorial Review Board Members (100) –Volunteer Peer Reviewers (>100) Others – Authors, Submitters, Users

5. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT MERLOT Editorial Discipline Boards Organized like journal editorial board –Editor (may be co-editors) –Board Members Associate Editors Peer Reviewers –Ad Hoc Peer Reviewers

6. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT MERLOT Editorial Boards Biology Business Chemistry Engineering Health Sciences History Information Technology Math Music Physics Psychology Statistics Teacher Education Teaching and Technology World Languages

7. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT MERLOT Editorial Boards Editor Associate Editor Ad Hoc Reviewer

8. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT Differences - MERLOT vs. Journal Evaluate teaching materials, not research articles. MERLOT has Peer Review Tutorial Actual Peer Review appears on MERLOT site, so can read what has been evaluated

9. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT MERLOT gives faculty… A vision, direction and a process for the integration of instructional materials in hybrid, online and f2f courses A formidable resource for professional development A mature collection of ready to use materials Opportunities for collaboration with MERLOT users and authors worldwide.

10. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT MERLOT Makes Faculty Work Easier One stop shopping to good material An easy way to get hybrid and online courses off and running A great way to reach students where they are at - online!! A way to provide real-world, classroom- tested materials just in time

11. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT Participation in MERLOT User Submitter Author “Ad Hoc” Peer Reviewer

12. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT Let’s walk into the vineyard…………...

13. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT MERLOT Homepage

14. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT Member Personal Page

15. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT Marketing

16. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT General Marketing

17. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT Marketing Listing

18. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT Internet Exercises

19. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT Internet Exercises

20. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT Peer Review

21. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT

22. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT Member Comments

23. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT Personal Collections – Like Citation

24. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT Assignments

25. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT Complete Assignment

26. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT MERLOT Awards

27. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT Personal Collections

28. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT Personal Collection

29. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT Personal Collections

30. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT Virtual Speakers Bureau

31. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT Virtual Speakers Bureau

32. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT Carnegie Foundation Snapshot

33. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT Teaching & Technology

34. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT Just In Time: Delgado CC, NVCC and MERLOT

35. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT Carnegie Foundation Snapshot

36. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT Federated Search

37. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT GLOBE

38. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT Slide by Gerry Hanley, MERLOT

39. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT Grapevine

40. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT JOLT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching

41. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT JOLT

42. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT MIC MERLOT International Conference

43. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT MERLOT Statistics Collection –Items: 13,500 –Peer Reviews: 1914 –Registered Users: 32,257 Business –Items: 2401 –Peer Reviews: 321 –Registered Users: 4125

44. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT Usage Statistics for Jan-Feb 2006 Total # of visits – 82,054 Avg. # visits a day – 1401 Avg. visitor repeat rate – 26% Avg. # pages/visit - 8 Avg. length of visit - 5 min, 7 sec

45. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT LMS Partnerships Blackboard WebCT Angel Desire2Learn

46. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT Other Partnerships O’Reilly The TLT Group SUN Microsystems

47. March 24, 2006Copyright MERLOT New Initiatives Workforce Development –Fire Safety –Allied Health –Information Technology –Employability Skills