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Mapping the Learning Space
New Orleans, LA
Colleen CarmeanNLII Fellow Information Technology Director, ASU WestEditor, MERLOT Faculty Development Editorial Board
Flora McMartinMERLOT, Director of Member Services and Evaluation
Ray PurdomDirector, University Teaching and Learning Center, UNC at GreenboroEditor, MERLOT Faculty Development Editorial Board
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MERLOT and NLII Partnership
New Orleans, LA
Our Shared Mission• To improve the efficacy of teaching and learning by expanding
the quantity and increasing the quality of online learning materials and services
Our Shared ValuesThe educational community must guide the development of
online resources and services to enable the success of education.
Successfully transforming learning, education, and trainingrequires collaboration.
Our Shared Constituencies• Our constituencies encompass teaching faculty, students, and
technology staff who support the teaching and learning process in higher education.
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NLII & MERLOT Collaboration
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Transforming Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
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NLII Key Themes
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NLII Work Products: 2003
New Orleans, LA
• Forming Virtual Communities– Teaching and Learning– The New Academy– EPortfolios
• Exploring Learning Objects (Fall)• Researching Next-Generation Course
Management Systems (Spring Session)
• Doing Transformative Assessment (Summer)
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Faculty Development
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• Promotion of Learning Objects
• Pedagogy of Online and Technology-Enhanced Instruction
• Deeper Learning Research
• Course Management Systems
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Categorizing Current Issues
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• Deeper Learning
• Teaching Practices
• Design Implications
• Learning Activities
• Technology Uses
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Teaching Well Online:MERLOT’s
Faculty Development Initiative
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Teaching Well Online (TWO)
New Orleans, LA
GoalTo support our partners’ faculty developers efforts to work with instructors who want to use, adapt or integrate computer based learning materials in their courses.
OutcomeDevelopment of a community of practice made up of partner faculty development experts and practitioners
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A Community of Practice
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• Focuses on a domain of knowledge
• Develops shared practice by interacting around problems, solutions, insights and building a common store of knowledge
• Accumulates expertise in the area - becomes a learning community
(Wenger, 2000)
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Audience
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• Faculty Development Staff
• Faculty, Instructors, TA’s
• Department Chairs
• Deans
• Provosts
• Academic Technology Directors
• Chief Information Officers
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Programs for Partners
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• Train the Trainer international workshop for faculty developers
• Regional workshops
• Partner Reserve
• Faculty Development Collection and Editorial Board
• Special Programs– SUNY - Online course for Faculty Developers– NLII - Collection/Editorial Board development
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Faculty Development Collection and Editorial Board
New Orleans, LA
• Collection-Teaching with Technology– Prototype developed by CSU Faculty Development
Directors– 200 learning materials
• Editorial Board (8 faculty developers from member institutions, led by 2 co-editors)– Build the collection– Review collection (establish categories for describing
the collection, develop review criteria, triage collection and do reviews)
– Develop relationships with professional societies– Promote MERLOT within own professional community
and on campus
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Outcomes – the Users’ Perspective
• All End Users – Access to a wide variety of resources focused on
helping instructors improve teaching and learning through using online materials
– Access and ability to interact with a community of practice and a learning community of faculty developers
– Recognition for scholarship of teaching the teachers
• Partners – Participation in specialized training re: faculty
development– Ability to ‘set’ the MERLOT faculty development agenda
through participation on the Editorial Board and via the Project Directors’ Council
New Orleans, LA
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The MERLOTFaculty Development
Editorial Board
New Orleans, LA
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New MERLOT Editorial Board:Faculty Development
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• Initial meeting of the Editorial Board September, 2002
• Current Related MERLOT Communities– Teaching Well Online (TWO)– Community of Academic Technology Staff
(CATS)
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Role of Editorial Board
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• Develop organized collections of online resources tailored to the needs of faculty development
• Develop and apply evaluation standards to materials in the collection using a peer review process
• Develop affiliations with faculty development professional organizations
• Develop the faculty development website within MERLOT
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Initial Decisions
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• Definition of Faculty Development
• Mission
• Focus of Discipline
• Types of Resources
• Subject Areas
• Name of Collection
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Mission Statement
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The MERLOT Faculty Development site is a cross-disciplinary community whose primary goal is to support faculty in higher education by increasing their knowledge, productivity, and professional effectiveness in teaching with technology. The community includes instructors, instructional designers, faculty development officers and technology support providers.
Community members help this collection grow by contributing reflections, best practices, instructional support ideas and materials that advance the pedagogical understanding of teaching with technology, whether in the classroom, online or in blended models.
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Types of Resources
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Academic disciplines types of resources
• Simulation, Animation,
• Tutorial, Drill and Practice, Quiz/Test
• Lecture/Presentation, Case Study, Collection, Reference Material
Faculty Development types of resources
• Workshop and Training Materials
• Policies
• Software and Hardware Evaluations, Templates
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Subject Areas
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Guidance from examining other efforts:
• MERLOT TWO
• MERLOT CATS
• UNC TLTC Professional Development Portal
• Teaching and Learning Center Online Resources Lists
• Teaching and Learning with Technology Center Lists
• Educause, POD, NTLF, TLT Group, etc.
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Mapping the Learning Space: MERLOT Categories
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Current short list –
• Accessibility • Assessment and Evaluation • Course Design • Policies• Scholarship of Online Teaching and
Learning• Selecting and Using Technologies• Support and Training • Teaching Strategies
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Evaluation Criteria
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MERLOT Evaluation Standards
1. Quality of Content
2. Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching-Learning Tool
3. Ease of Use
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Next Steps
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Complete efforts on resource types, subject categories, evaluation criteria
In the 2002-2003 academic year, make available the initial collection, begin the peer and user evaluation process.
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Vision
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The MERLOT Faculty Development Discipline will become a Community of Practice for Teaching and Learning with Technology