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MERLOT 101:
Everything you need to know to hit the ground running
Barbra Bied Sperling
MERLOT Manager of Technical Development
Your expectations for today
What do you hope to get out of today’s session?
What issues are top of mind for you?
MERLOT’s Vision
MERLOT's vision is to be a premiere online community where faculty, staff, and students from around the world share their learning materials and pedagogy.
MERLOT SupportsCreative Commons
MERLOT strongly endorses and recommends Creative Commons
licensing to encourage the sharing and reuse of online
learning materials while protecting Members’ work from
misuse and abuse.
MERLOT Repository
• Registered Members*– 72,244+ growing @ 1,000/month
• Materials– 20,995– 2,818 ~ Peer Reviewed– 9,109 materials in “Personal Collections”– 3,234 materials with member comments
• Usage~ 150,000 average unique visits per month
*August 1, 2009
Always find what’s new
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Are you a member of Are you a member of MERLOT? MERLOT?
Why you should join?Why you should join?
Why join MERLOT?
Create personal collections
Contribute materials, comments, and learning exercises
Develop a personal profile and create a CV
Share online expertise with others
Receive peer recognition
Become a guest speaker
Join an Editorial Board - Become a Peer Reviewer
Find others in a discipline
How do you join?
A profile is create
I’m logged in, now what?
Updating your profileUpdating your profile
Update your profile
Want to change what you just added?
We will save these for a future presentation.
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Identify your language
Find materials and members Find materials and members in MERLOT in MERLOT
Search and browse MERLOT
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Search for members by their affiliation
Federated Search
Federated Search results
RSS Feeds in MERLOT
Any search can become an RSS feed
MERLOT Communities
Discipline Community Portal
Teaching Commons
It’s important to share:It’s important to share:
Contribute to MERLOTContribute to MERLOT
Contribute learning materials
All you need are a few details
5 step wizard to enter all your metadata including:
Enter the title and URL Describe the material, material type, audience and keywords (include formatting with text editor) Identify the subject category and language(s) Add author information (if you know it) Any extra information to help a user including creative commons
The finished product! Detail view
Add a comment or learning exercise (previously known as an assignment)
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Member Comments
Organize your materials:Organize your materials:Personal CollectionsPersonal Collections
Personal Collections
How do I create a collection?
Where can I find collections?
Like someone else's collection?
And there’s still so much And there’s still so much more to MERLOT…more to MERLOT…
Recognizing Your Efforts
Ribbons of recognition
Provides recognition for faculty capabilities and performance
Provides accountability for institutions
Provides academically acceptable mechanism/process that is motivational
How you get recognized
• Contribute materials
• Add comments
• Submit assignments
• Create personal collections
• Join the VSB
• Become a peer reviewer
• Author materials
Share a material with a friend
Report a broken link to us
Need Guest Experts? Need Guest Experts? Virtual Speakers Bureau Virtual Speakers Bureau
can helpcan help
Virtual Speakers Bureau
Find other Guest Experts that can
help you or become a VSB
member yourself
Virtual Speakers Bureau profile
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