http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Sun, 19 May 2013 23:04:23 PDT Sun, 19 May 2013 23:04:23 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=75614 This module is part of a general course, Media and Culture, designed to accompany a CD rom. The material presented is concerns Advertising Literacy and Advertising Techniques. There is some course content provided as well as examples of print and video ads to illustrate the concepts. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=83077 This site was developed to demonstrate how to effectively incorporate teamwork into your courses, avoid common pitfalls and turn it into a valuable learning experience for your students. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=77837 This module enables viewers to enter the lives of fictional characters forced to make critical decisions with profound moral, ethical or social implications. The module fuses dramatic film, interactivity on the Web, sync-to-broadcast technology, and the energy of live television with a studio audience. Viewers are encouraged to confront those gray areas of human experience where serious moral and ethical choices are made. This would make a good and lively debate possible for an ethics class. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=75756 This is a 52 minute video in RealVideo that features a conversation with Dr. Thomas Shanks of the Markkula Center for Ethics at Santa Clara University. Drs. Larry Hinman, Marc Lampe, and Gene Rothswohl of the University of San Diego assist in the interview http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=89558 This site provides a series of notes or information about a variety of topics concerning leadership, including the role of vision, personal character, empowering leaders, etc. The site can provide hints for discussions of leadership in any type of class. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=82150 This is a lecture on the global marketplace. Topics include Marketing Research, Electronic Commerce, Economics, Culture, Political & Legal Environment, Targeting, and Entry Strategies. It is a good summary for an International Marketing class. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=276902 This is is a web-based video training program produced in cooperation with the AICPA, to help the US business community provide corporate fraud prevention training to personnel at all levels. One can play the movie from the site or download it. Coinciding reference material can be found at the mirror site url. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=268710 These presentation materials were designed for classroom use to discuss fraud. Each presentation focuses on a high-profile corporate fraud case and provides commentary and analysis. These presentations are ideal for classroom use since they describe the key factors that led to the fraudulent activity, while illustrating fraud prevention, detection, and investigation in action. They include Adelphia, Enron, American Tissue, Lucent, WorldCom, Tyco and Waste Management. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=378092 This video from the Harvard Business collection on YouTube is an interview with Cisco CEO John Chambers. In the video he explains how abandoning command-and-control leadership has enabled the company to innovate more quickly, using collaboration and teamwork. The video lasts about 6 1/2 minutes. This would be good for generating a class discussion about leadership, collaboration or teamwork. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=293944 This is a virtual world video that illustrates how virtual worlds can be used in training, in this case a retail salesperson encounters an irate customer and does not handle it well.