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Sharing Learning Objects: Serving MERLOT to Higher Education. Gerard L. Hanley, Ph.D. Executive Director, MERLOT Senior Director, California State University. New Media Consortia Online Conference October 13, 2003. Setting Expectations. Leveraging the Faculty Culture - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Gerard L. Hanley, Ph.D.
Executive Director, MERLOT
Senior Director, California State University
Sharing Learning Objects: Serving MERLOT to
Higher Education
New Media Consortia
Online Conference
October 13, 2003
Setting Expectations
• Leveraging the Faculty Culture• Heavy Lifting with MERLOT
– A Tour Through the Vineyard
• MERLOT Metrics• How the MERLOT Community Works• Leveraging the Administrator’s Culture
The Physics of Leveraging Academia
orWhy Our Jobs Are So Difficult
Is this YOU?
Your CampusCommunity &
Academic Culture
Mass = 1
What are your options?
Reduce what you have to lift
Move the fulcrum closer to object
Strengthen the lever
Add weight to your forces
Academic Recognition
Tenure & Promotion Processes Academic Initiatives: MERLOT
Focus on People
Taking a Tour Through the MERLOT Vineyard
MERLOT’S VISION Be a premier online community where faculty,
staff, and students from around the world share teaching-learning materials and pedagogy.
www.merlot.org
MERLOT METRICS
Usage Continues to Grow
USAGE Dec 2001 Dec 2002 July 2003
Hits per month 710,216 1,310,526 1,512,463
15% increase in 7 months
Average Unique Visitors
per month9,579 13,985 15,216
9% increase
in 7 months
Average # of Users
per monthN/A 18,742 21,643
15% increase in 7 months
% of users that go to Home page, then continue
N/A 97% 97.5%
Average Session Length 5:10 min. 6:50 min. 6:43 min.
MERLOT’s People Metrics
MEMBERSHIP Dec 2001 Dec 2002 July 2003
Students 959 1,994 2,569
Faculty 3,774 6,621 8,965
Staff 1,003 1,677 2,107
Other 651 1,069 1,428
TOTAL # of Members
6,387 11,561 15,069
30% Increase in 7 months
Growth of MERLOT Collection
COLLECTION Dec 2001 Dec 2002 July 2003
# of Materials- Disciplines
With Editorial Boards5,638 7,440 8,301
# of Materials- Disciplines Without Editorial Boards
1,119 1,397 1,286*
# of Peer Reviews 296 789 987# of Materials with Member Comments 1,386 1,904 1,855*
# of Personal Collections N/A N/A 351
* = MERLOT curated the collection and removed “dead links”.
How MERLOT Works
Bringing Faculty, Staff, Students, and
Administrators to Work Together Individually
Administrative Team
Sustaining PartnersAdvisory Board
System Partners & Campus Partners
MERLOT Editorial Boards
Alliance Partners and Professional Societies
MERLOT Members and Users
Peer Review
Digital Library Resources & Services
Professional Development
Collaboration &Community
Strategic Priorities
Programs Delivering Resources and Services
Faculty StudentsAdministrators Staff
MERLOT Conferences Partners/Alliances Website
Enabling Technologies
Mobilizing Educational Community: Higher Education Institutions
System Partners:• California Community
College System• California State University• EduSource.canada• Illinois Board of Higher
Education• Louisiana Board of
Regents• Oklahoma State Regents
for Higher Education• South Dakota Board of
Regents
• State University of New York• Tennessee Board of Regents • Troy State University• University of Michigan• University of North Carolina• University System of Georgia• University of Wisconsin System• Virginia Community College System• WICHE, Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications
Contributions of Partnership:
System Partner Contributions• $25K annual fee• $50K-$100K In-kind support for their faculty participation• Dissemination and Outreach• Faculty Development Activities• Integration of MERLOT into existing academic technology initiatives
Additional Levels of Participation - Campus Partners:• Coastal Carolina University• Cornell University• Ohio University• St. Petersburg College• Seton Hall University
Cooperative Economics To Change the World
Large Number of Feasible Fees 21 Systems and Institutions = $450K 5 NSF grants & subcontracts = $350K In-Kind Contributions = $1.7M (est.) Conference Fees = $65K
CSU Management = $450K
Forces
Lever
Fulcrum
Together we can leverage change
MERLOT’s Organizational PartnersDigital Library Services Activity
Education.au Limited
SMETE.org
American Assoc of Physics Teachers
Federated Search
NEEDS (Engineering)
HEAL (Heal Science)
CAUSE (Statistics)
Journal of Chemical Education*
Peer Review
Professional Development
New Media Consortium
NLII/EDUCAUSE
POD*
Professional Development
Enabling Technologies
IMS (Affiliate) Standards
MERLOT Supports Higher Ed Culture
• MERLOT provides QUALITY REVIEWS– Standards-based evaluation – Independent panel of experts – Training for the reliable application of standards
• MERLOT provides USER SERVICES– Free and reliable access to a digital library of online resources– An electronic portfolio can be created within MERLOT
• Teaching and Course Portfolios
• MERLOT provides RECOGNITION– Documentation for Authors, Contributors, Reviewers, and Users
MERLOT Supports Tenure and Promotion Reviews
Administering MERLOT to Administrators
Administrators must be served well by MERLOT if Teachers are to be served
Administrative Constraints
• Never enough money• Never enough space• Minimal information to inform decision making• Very difficult to speed up change• Distributed authority• Personnel issues• You are responsible for all things great and small
(and people are ready to blame you when things go wrong)
The MERLOT Fulcrum:Faster, Cheaper, Better, Fairly
• Improve Quality Assurance– MERLOT provides peer reviews with guidance on use
• Fairness Across Disciplines and Faculty– MERLOT serves new, veteran, techies, non-techies, full-time and
adjunct faculty- all at different states of professional development
• Increase Speed of Development and Use – MERLOT provides infrastructure for rapid growth in the quantity
of reusable curriculum that can be found easily and incorporated into faculty designed courses
• Reduce Cost – MERLOT shares costs for assigned time, training, technical
support and management
What Makes The MERLOT Cooperative Work?
• We Create Common Means to Individual Ends
• You Get More Than You Give• You Have a Fair Share in Decision
Making and Participation• We Hold True to Academic Values• We Provide Visibility, Accountability &
Sustainability• You TRUST Us to Deliver High Quality
Services
Next Steps Are The Ones We Take Together!
Gerard L. Hanley, Ph.D. [email protected]
Graphic Design by Rachel S. Smith, CSU Center for Distributed Learning