1. January 24, 2005 Gerry Hanley Executive Director, MERLOT NLII 2005 January 24, 2005 MERLOT: Slipstreaming to Success

2. January 24, 2005 Copyright Gerard L. Hanley, 2005. This work is the intellectual property of the author. Permission is granted for this material to be shared for non-commercial, educational purposes, provided that this copyright statement appears on the reproduced materials and notice is given that the copying is by permission of the author. To disseminate otherwise or to republish requires written permission from the author.

3. January 24, 2005 Slipstreaming Outcome: Improving Your Performance By Leveraging Other’s Work Process:Collaboration that can be… Cooperative to Competitive Intentional to Incidental Synchronously to Asynchronously

4. January 24, 2005 Quick Tour Through the MERLOT Vineyard http://www.merlot.org

5. January 24, 2005 Growth in Usage, Materials and Members Metrics20032004 Hits per month1.8 M3.2 M # Unique Visitors160,719206,965 Registered Members17,22922,306 # of Materials9,98412,161 # of Peer Reviews in Process (Triaged) 5,9848,557 # of Peer Reviews Posted 1,1021,535 # of Personal Collections 1,0832,336

6. January 24, 2005 MERLOT Consortium for Education Type of ParticipationNumber Higher Education (Systems & Campuses) 23 Digital Libraries6 Academic Professional Societies9 Academic Industry22 # of Editorial Board Members272 http://taste.merlot.org

7. January 24, 2005 Our Strategic Services… Providing Digital Library Collections and Services Providing & Enabling Professional Development and Outreach Leading Community and Collaboration Implementing Enabling Technologies

8. January 24, 2005 …To Enable Successful Education Step I: Discovery & Research for Teaching Step II: Designing the Learning Experience Step III: Teaching Step IV: Learning Step V: Feedback, Assessment, & Evaluation Enabling faculty to be effective and efficient in the use of technology in teaching and learning is key

9. January 24, 2005 Slipstreaming Digital Library Services Increasing access to other Digital Libraries via Federated Search –Edna (Australia)- ARIADNE (EU) –CAUSE (statistics)- COMPadre (physics) –SMETE (sciences)- Unv of North Carolina In the works: – HEAL (health sciences) – CLOE – Cooperative Learning Object Exchange Canada –ATHE (theatre – to build collection within MERLOT)

10. January 24, 2005 Slipstreaming Digital Library Services MERLOT is available through your library search tools to provided integrated access with your institutional collections –Exlibrus- Metalib –Sentient Discover: provides plug-in into WebCT and Bb RSS Feeds: The learning object newspaper delivered to your website’s doorstep – 220 unique requesters in 2004 –WebCT, Bb, D2L have MERLOT RSS feeds that faculty can choose to display within their courses.

11. January 24, 2005 Leveraging the World’s Collection of Learning Objects Global Learning Object Brokered Exchange to expand the quantity and quality of online educational resources that can be easily incorporated into faculty designed courses. ARIADNE (European Union), EdNA (Australia), eduSource (Canada), NIME (Japan), and MERLOT (US) are the founding “stewards” of GLOBE. –Partnership of digital libraries that have sustained institutional constituents

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13. Building the Slipstream Technology Team will adopt standard GLOBE technology protocols Business Plan Team will finalize business plan for GLOBE (governance, scope of services, roadmap for implementation) Who can we learn from while innovating? –IMS: Standard will enable easy community participation. –Sun Microsystems: Federated search expertise –Sun is a MERLOT Corporate Community Partner

14. January 24, 2005 Working with Publishers Faculty want choice to use a blend of commercial publisher materials and MERLOT resources. What are the issues and reactions? McGraw Hill became a Corporate Community Partner in 2004 –Test contributions of McGraw Hill in MERLOT –Examine use of McGraw Hill-CISCO learning system services O’Reilly Advisory Board - SafariU

15. January 24, 2005 Working with IBM How do the commercial content providers and users respect and protect IP? MERLOT-IBM Field Testing of Prototype Solution –In early 2003, MERLOT and IBM formed an agreement to build a prototype “digital content exchange” to test whether such an exchange was technically feasible and would have academic acceptance –MERLOT supplied the requirements and content –IBM supplied the technical infrastructure and technical support –Prototype was tested by members of MERLOT institutions and concluded in April, 2004

16. January 24, 2005 Key Conclusions from Field Test Key requirements of the exchange can be supported in the infrastructure Providers and consumers (faculty and students) found value in the system Ease of use is a (the) significant acceptance factor While the opportunity to create new business models abounds within the exchange, there is limited understanding about which models will succeed

17. January 24, 2005 Enabling Discovery & Research for Teaching Slipstreaming with Institutions, Professional Societies, and Corporations is critical for: –Federated Search: Increasing access to collection without all the work –Collection development: Blending commercial and non-commercial materials –DRM: Protecting IP –eCommerence & supporting usable workflow

18. January 24, 2005 Slipstreaming Professional Development and Outreach MERLOT Institutional Partners are the keys for faculty development –Systems’ and Campuses’ Faculty Development Programs –CSU-CATS & MERLOT-CATS –MERLOT International Conference TLT Group: Delivering quality services to a network of “ready” institutions and faculty –Discounts on services –Joint MERLOT-TLT programs delivered Consulting/Advice Online seminars

19. January 24, 2005 Slipstreaming Professional Development and Outreach Communications Program – MERLOT “PORTALS” – MERLOT Newsletters (The Grapevine) –MERLOT’s Need: Deliver a large number of discipline-specific publishing services to independent, distributed content experts Must be effective, usable, reliable, scaleable, easy to manage, and have low procurement and operational costs. Collaborations with Macromedia produced solutions to managing outreach and professional development resources

20. January 24, 2005 In 36 hours…. The newsletter was sent out to approximately 21,000 members. 102 people unsubscribed to the newsletter. 12 non-MERLOT members people subscribed to the newsletter 52 people joined MERLOT within the last day after the newsletter went out. Usually we get about 15 a day. 48 NEW Personal Collections created 8 sent email with positive comments about how much they liked the newsletter and the sense of community. 3 sent "negative comments" These included the use of too many acronyms or their email was empty. 2 wanted to know how to contribute material to subsequent newsletter

21. January 24, 2005 Quick Observation on Student Use of MERLOT 18% of MERLOT Members are Registered as Students Opportunity to Slipstream with NLII’s focus on student learning?

22. January 24, 2005 Students Reflecting on Learning Angela Landsman, MERLOT Student Member commenting on her learning from a DNA Website “I am a fourth year college student. I was instructed by my college professor to join merlot and to review three websites and pick my favorite.” “The webpages were setup in such a way that you don't realize how much you are learning until you have completed the "lesson"….. I found it much more effective to "view" the experiments rather than merely hear about them. The videos and sound were excellent and I appreciated the animation allowing me to move at my own pace. I was not forced to move through too quickly…”

23. January 24, 2005 Moving From… Your Campus Community & Academic Culture Mass = 1

24. January 24, 2005 To Here…. Mass = Education Community Mass = Education Practices