1. MERLOT CHILE Community Project www.merlotchile.org

2. CHILE Latitud: 17º-56º s 4.200 x 200 km Population: 17 million (40% in Santiago) Diverse geography

3. CHILE compared with EEUU

5. UTC INACAP Articulated Higher Education System Focus on Technology Applied research and innovation Prepare graduates with values and competences Improve competitiveness of Chile’s productive sector.

6. UTC INACAP Largest HE Institution in Chile 25 Campuses 82.000 students 4.200 professors Learning by doing Centralized curriculum

7. INACAP Campuses Antofagasta Valparaíso Temuco Santiago La Serena Concepción

8. Our students Knowledge in admission tests: Math 35% Language 55%

9. Our faculty Most INACAP’s faculty are: Technicians with no pedagogical background Not comfortable using technology Teach in the traditional way, with “known” results for decades

10. Ciedu INACAP Center for Innovation on Education (Ciedu): Center of excellence in applied research Collects, supports and promotes faculty staff research Develops projects to improve learning and teaching processes

11. Ciedu INACAP Research areas: Integration of ICTs into the classroom Efective design of e-learning and b-learning courses Remedials for students with deficient level of knowledge

12. Ciedu INACAP

13. Master INACAP-CSU

14. MERLOT project How to share knowledge with other people of different universities and spanish speaking countries? How to connect faculties from different campuses and universities along the country? How to integrate the spanish speaking community to MERLOT?

15. MERLOT CHILE www.merlotchile.org New MERLOT community for spanish speakers Spanish language learning and training materials Technological University of Chile INACAP is leading the project Board of Directors

17. MOU (MERLOT-INACAP) MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING Between MERLOT and Universidad Tecnológica de Chile INACAP Chile starts a new community for spanish speakers with the agreement between INACAP and MERLOT

18. MOU (MERLOT-INACAP)

19. Our shared mission MERLOT - INACAP Improve efficacy of teaching and learning by expanding the quantity and increasing quality of materials Collaborate for successfully transforming learning, education, and training

20. MERLOT CHILE Seminar

21. Seminar

22. MERLOT CHILE Workshop

23. MERLOT CHILE goals First year: –Increase spanish speaking members –Incorporate material in each MERLOT area in spanish

24. MERLOT CHILE goals Second year: –Create communities of different areas –Create MERLOT Voices in MERLOT CHILE

25. MERLOT CHILE challenges How to create a network in Chile and Latin America? How to incentive faculty to share material?

26. MERLOT CHILE vision Be a premiere higher education online spanish speaking community where faculty, staff, and students from around the world share their learning materials and pedagogy.

27. Next step: Diffusion Create a board of directors Train a team of leaders with people of each campus Define compensations to motivate faculty Define actions that lead to awards Create faculty innovator circle and academic leadership council

28. Benefits for MERLOT Access to high quality online resources and services in spanish. Expansion and visibility of MERLOT in spanish speaking countries. Incorporate new ideas and projects from MERLOT Chile community.

29. EXAMPLES

31. MERLOT CHILE Do you want to participate in MERLOT CHILE community? You are welcome to join us at: www.merlotchile.org merlotchile@inacap.cl

32. www.merlotchile.org www.merlotchile.cl merlotchile@inacap.cl