http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Thu, 23 May 2013 14:27:43 PDT Thu, 23 May 2013 14:27:43 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=731728 'Is taking an online class a good fit for you? Learning through an online class requires different skills than learning in a face-to-face class. It's important to know what you're getting into and to understand the kind of commitment that's necessary for success in online learning. You can get a good idea of your readiness for online learning by filling out the following assessment.' http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=680777 This course is an introduction to copyright law and American law in general. Topics covered include: structure of federal law; basics of legal research; legal citations; how to use LexisNexis®; the 1976 Copyright Act; copyright as applied to music, computers, broadcasting, and education; fair use; Napster®, Grokster®, and Peer-to-Peer file-sharing; Library Access to Music Project; The 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act; DVDs and encryption; software licensing; the GNU® General Public License and free software. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=655737 LIS 1000, Introduction to Information Literacy, contains learning objectives, rubrics, lesson plans, and assessments designed to teach and assess the necessary skills expected in a two-year Florida college student. Learning objectives were adapted from the Association of College and Research Libraries’ Information Literacy Standards for Higher Education. Students will be able to recognize a need for information, seek appropriate resources to locate information, develop effective search strategies to retrieve information, evaluate the information found, and use these resources ethically. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=637381 Online learning resouce covering introduction to the IMPACT Digitisation OER with details of other modules in the series.Creator/Owner: IMPACT Project - http://www.digitisation.eu,Title: IMPACT OER: An Introduction to Mass Text DigitisationVersion: 0.4Date Released: 15/10/2011Audience: Project managers and anyone with an interest in the mass-digitisation and OCR of historic text material.License: Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v3 - Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=637383 Online learning resouce covering Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for large scale digitisation of historic text based materials and their subsequent conversion to text by Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Creator/Owner: IMPACT Project - http://www.digitisation.eu, Title: IMPACT OER: Optical Character Recognition. Version: 0.5 Date Released: 01/11/2011 Audience: Project Managers and anyone with interest in the mass-digitisation of historic text material. License: Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v3 - Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=637385 Online learning resouce covering Metadata Creation and Management for large scale digitisation of historic text based materials and their subsequent conversion to text by Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Creator/Owner: IMPACT Project - http://www.digitisation.eu, Title: IMPACT OER: Metadata Creation and Management Version: 0.4 Date Released: 15/10/2011 Audience: Project Managers and anyone with interest in the mass-digitisation and OCR of historic text material. License: Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v3 - Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=637386 Online learning resouce covering Migration, Storage & Preservation for large scale digitisation of historic text based materials and their subsequent conversion to text by Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Creator/Owner: IMPACT Project - http://www.digitisation.eu, Title: IMPACT OER: Migration, Storage & Preservation Version: 0.4 Date Released: 01/11/2011 Audience: Project Managers and anyone with interest in the mass-digitisation of historic text material. License: Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v3 - Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=637388 Online learning resouce covering the outsourcing of digitisation and/or OCR for large scale digitisation of historic text based materials and their subsequent conversion to text by Optical Character Recognition (OCR).Creator/Owner: IMPACT Project - http://www.digitisation.eu,Title: IMPACT OER: OutsourcingVersion: 0.4Date Released: 01/11/2011Audience: Project managers and anyone with an interest in the mass-digitisation and OCR of historic text material.License: Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v3 - Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=637398 Online learning resouce covering Project Planning for large scale digitisation of historic text based materials and their subsequent conversion to text by Optical Character Recognition (OCR).Creator/Owner: IMPACT Project - http://www.digitisation.eu,Title: IMPACT OER: Project Planning.Version: 0.4 Date Released: 15/10/2011Audience: Project managers and anyone with an interest in the mass-digitisation and OCR of historic text material.License: Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v3 - Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=637400 Online learning resouce covering Project Planning for large scale digitisation of historic text based materials and their subsequent conversion to text by Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Creator/Owner: IMPACT Project - http://www.digitisation.eu, Title: IMPACT OER: Material Selection. Version: 0.4 Date Released: 01/11/2011 Audience: Project Managers and anyone with interest in the mass-digitisation of historic text material. License: Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v3 - Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)