Discovering Open Educational Resources and Services@

Dr. Leslie KennedyDirector, Affordable Learning Solutions

Academic Technology ServicesCalifornia State University, Office of the Chancellor

What is MERLOT.org• Engaging people and opening doors• Recognizing and validating needs• Exciting curiosity• Creating the gathering place• Inviting solutions• Offering personal contributions• Encouraging publicity• Enjoying the fruits of labors• Celebrating accomplishments

Hanley (2014) . Putting Educational Innovation into Practice: Strategies to Support the American Kinesiology Association.

What is MERLOT.org• Engaging people and opening doors• Recognizing and validating needs• Exciting curiosity• Creating the gathering place• Inviting solutions• Offering personal contributions• Encouraging publicity• Enjoying the fruits of labors• Celebrating accomplishments

Hanley (2014) . Putting Educational Innovation into Practice: Strategies to Support the American Kinesiology Association.

Engaging people and opening doors• MERLOT annual conference with OLC

Websites

• Communities

Recognizing and validating needs• Open library of materials and directory of individuals

• Voluntarily contributing materials and sharing feedback

• Peer review process

• 23 discipline-based editorial boards

Exciting curiosity• How can we use technology in our classrooms quickly, easily, and successfully?• Free, quality, online instructional materials, online course curriculum and free etextbooks available• Simulations on thermodynamic equilibrium• Online tutorials on clinical assessment of injuries• Online atlas of human muscles

Creating a gathering place• Custom MERLOT websites – “teaching commons”• Over 50 customized sites• COOL4ed.org• CSU Affordable Learning Solutions• Affordable Georgia• Affordable SUNY• Affordable Tennessee Board of Regents

• Mobile apps (mobilesapps.merlot.org)• NFB & OERC (oeraccess.merlot.org)• OER for Cancer in India (oercindia.merlot.org)

• Translations into over 40 languages

http://affordablelearningsolutions.org

http://cool4ed.org

Inviting Solutions• Members share and create collectively useful library and services

• Online communities (voices.merlot.org)• YouTube channel• Blog• Social media with Twitter and Facebook

Offering Personal Contributions

• Over 5,500 contributed

• Member profiles recognize contribution

• Open access peer reviewed journal opportunity, JOLT.merlot.org

• Content Builder supports creation and sharing of OER

Encouraging Publicity• Professional development available

• Social media services

• Conferences

Celebrating Accomplishments• MERLOT Awards program• Classics Award

• Editorial boards select outstanding resources• Editor’s Choice Award

• Editors’ Council selects exemplary resources• Service to MERLOT Award

• for contribution• Application of MERLOT Award

• Innovation in education

The Future of MERLOT.org• Services provided by MERLOT

• Building relationships

• Solving problems

• Disseminating information

• Customizing resources

• Growing the collections

Thank you

My contact information: lkennedy@calstate.eduMERLOT’s contact information: webmaster@merlot.org

MERLOT.org Resources

MERLOT’s Open Social Media Services• Blog

• ` http://blog.merlot.org/• News Center

• http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm?action=news• Facebook

• (MERLOT-Multimedia-Educational-Resource-for-Learning-and-Online-Teaching• Twitter

• (MERLOTORG)• YouTube Channel

• (MERLOTPlace)• JOLT

• http://jolt.merlot.org• Voices

• http://voices.merlot.org• Mobile

• http://mobileapps.merlot.org• For Students

• http://www.merlotx.org/

Open Resources & Services• University of New York System

• http://opensunyals.org• University System of Georgia

• http://affordablelearninggeorgia.org/• Southern University

• http://www.suol4ed.org/• Excelsior College

• http://encore.excelsior.edu/encore/index.html• Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education

• http://affordablelearningok.org/

• MERLOT Communities• https://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm?action=communities

OER Authoring Services & Guidelines• CSU Faculty Showcase ePortfolios (using Content Builder to create)• http://courseredesign.csuprojects.org/wp/eportfolios/

• Content Builder & ePortfolios• http://taste.merlot.org/Programs_and_Projects/ContentB

uilder.html

• Personal Collections, ePortfolios, and other OER• www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm?action=contribute