http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Sat, 18 May 2013 19:17:49 PDT Sat, 18 May 2013 19:17:49 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=89843 The Voice of America site provides a variety of media news and programs. VOA produces and broadcasts over 900 hours of U.S., world, and regional news and information programs every week to a worldwide audience of 91million. VOA reaches its audience in English and 52 other languages through radio, satellite television, the Internet and 1,200 affiliate stations around the world. VOA Special English is a news and information program created for listeners learning and practicing American English. VOA Special English uses a vocabulary of 1500 words and a slower pace of speaking. Special English broadcasts begin with ten minutes of international and national news, followed by a short report about science, agriculture, development, the environment, or American idioms. The half-hour broadcasts end with a 15-minute feature about American culture, history, science, space, short stories, or notable Americans. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=554081 An interactive exploration of the Salem witchcraft outbreak of 1692, the Salem Witchcraft Site provides data about certain aspects of the outbreak and demonstrates how this data can be used to further our understanding of events. The website takes a "learn by doing," or "inquiry" approach to learning. It formulates questions about Salem witchcraft, explores solutions, and encourages users to pursue further understanding on their own.In emphasizing a quantitative approach to Salem, the site provides a number of data sets containing information about various aspects of the Salem outbreak, such as the month of the year when "witches" were accused and the communities in which they lived. Instructions are provided to analyze the data so that users can determine for themselves connections not readily apparent in traditional historical sources and books. The statistical analysis includes histograms, scatter plots, pie charts, means, and medians. Users need not perform statistical analyses but can simply follow the discussion.Used selectively or in its entirety, the site is intended for a wide audience: historians, whether as researchers or teachers; students of history and of the Salem witchcraft episode, whether in school or not; and non-historians, such as those who teach or are learning basic statistics or social science methodology. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=671137 The Michigan Education through Learning Objects (MELO) project is a cross-disciplinary collaborative effort that has worked over the past three years to facilitate the integration of curriculum-based sequences of online learning objects (LOs) that complement classroom pedagogy in large enrollment gateway courses. MELO's goal is to enhance student learning, engagement, and persistence in college through the use of these learning objects. The materials represented in this collection are from the third year (MELO 3D) of the project. This award-winning project takes a unique approach to overcoming barriers to technology-enriched instruction by involving students (undergraduate and graduate) in addition to select faculty and staff from across different disciplines as key collaborators. By training select students and faculty to find, evaluate, adapt, create, and integrate LOs, the project facilitates the incorporation of high quality interdisciplinary and discipline-specific LOs into the curricula.The Open.Michigan collection serves as a central repository for materials created in association with the Michigan Education through Learning Objects project. The Materials tab contains training materials from the start of the projects, learning objects, survey instruments and conference abstracts from the project. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=671551 The Michigan Education through Learning Objects (MELO) project is a cross-disciplinary collaborative effort that has worked over the past three years to facilitate the integration of curriculum-based sequences of online learning objects (LOs) that complement classroom pedagogy in large enrollment gateway courses. MELO's goal is to enhance student learning, engagement, and persistence in college through the use of these learning objects. The materials represented in this collection are from the third year (MELO 3D) of the project. This award-winning project takes a unique approach to overcoming barriers to technology-enriched instruction by involving students (undergraduate and graduate) in addition to select faculty and staff from across different disciplines as key collaborators. By training select students and faculty to find, evaluate, adapt, create, and integrate LOs, the project facilitates the incorporation of high quality interdisciplinary and discipline-specific LOs into the curricula.The Open.Michigan collection serves as a central repository for materials created in association with the Michigan Education through Learning Objects project. The Materials tab contains training materials from the start of the projects, learning objects, survey instruments and conference abstracts from the project. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=671599 SPANISH 103 is an introductory course to the Spanish language and culture. This course uses a task and content-based approach to learning which integrates grammar in a functional use through listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Language use is encouraged through communicative activities rather than a sequence of linguistic units. Learning strategies and cultural awareness are also important objectives of the course.This course is part of the 2011-2013 MELO 3D project, supported by an LSA Instructional Technology Committee New Initiatives/New Infrastructure grant. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=82863 E-Learning: an experiment via web on course of Foundations of Computer science. To plan in modality elearning with focus on the student. Free donation for the Download of the book placed to the link: http://www.comunedasa.it/elearning/index.asp http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=444414 This module helps develop an understanding of feminist theories by focusing on the debates surrounding the body. It introduces a number of key feminist theorists and draws on empirical studies to explain and explore theoretical issues. Building on an understanding of how bodies are re/constructed through culture, the module looks in more depth on the impact of key social divisions.This resource has been created within the Open Educational Resources project "Evaluating the Practice of Opening up Resources for Learning and Teaching in the Social Sciences" [C-SAP OER], undertaken by the Subject Centre for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics based at University of Birmingham, for further information see here: http://www.c-sap.bham.ac.uk/subject_areas/elearning/oer/default.htm. The project is part of UK-wide Open Educational Resources programme [UKOER]. Within the programme, JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) and the Higher Education Academy are collaborating on the with the aim of enabling higher education institutions, consortia and individuals to share learning materials freely online. The programme supports universities and colleges in exploring processes and policies, intellectual property rights, cultural issues, technical requirements and data management issues. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=620186 This course will examine European politics, specifically analyzing Europe's process of integration into a supranational entity: the European Union. The course will examine the sovereign state system that emerged from the Wars of Religion, the intricacies of the European Union in the post-World War II environment, major states that make up the EU or play a key role in European politics, and many important contemporary issues that the EU and Europe face. This free course may be completed online at any time. See course site for detailed overview and learning outcomes. (Political Science 323) http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=738153 © Rick Williams and Figure/Ground CommunicationDr. Williams was interviewed by Laureano Ralon on March 4th, 2013 http://www.figureground.ca/rick-williams/Dean Rick Williams is an international, award winning arts and visual communications scholar and documentary photographer and is the Dean of the Division of the Arts at Lane Community College. His research includes theoretical and practical explorations in the use of arts and visual communication as pedagogical tools that help students integrate rational and intuitive intelligences to enhance creativity, intelligence, problem solving, decision making and performance across academic and professional disciplines and life practices. He has published numerous articles and chapters for major journals and books in communications and his own books include an ethnographic/photographic study, Working Hands and Visual Communication: Integrating Media, Art and Science with co-author Dr. Julianne Newton. Dean Williams founded and directs ArtsWork in Education, a non-profit educational organization that works with schools and academic teachers to integrate arts learning processes into core academic subject curricula to facilitate the highest levels of creativity, problem solving and decision making and enhance academic, professional and life performance and achievement. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=643210 Dr. Mansell was interviewed by Laureano Ralon on July 12th, 2010 as part of the Figure/Ground Communication scholarly interview series: http://www.figureground.ca/interviews/Robin Mansell is a Professor of New Media and the Internet in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Professor Mansell’s research focuses on the social, economic, and technical issues arising from new technologies, especially in the computer and telecommunication industries. She examines the integration of new technologies into society, the interaction between engineering design and the structure of markets, and the sources of regulatory effectiveness and failure. She has written extensively on the social, organisational and economic factors influencing innovations in new technologies. She is a leading contributor to policy debates on the potential of, and risks associated with, the information society. She is a Canadian who received her PhD in 1984 from Simon Fraser University and then worked for William H Melody & Associates, a small Vancouver-based consulting firm run by Professor Melody who was her PhD supervisor and by Professor Dallas W. Smythe, who was on her research committee. She then worked for the OECD Information, Computer and Communication Policy Division in Paris from 1985 to 1987 before being appointed as Reader at the Science and Technology Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex in 1988. She was promoted to full Professor of Information and Communication Technology Policy in 1994 and was later Director of Research at SPRU. She joined LSE in 2001, appointed to a new Chair in New Media and the Internet, and was Head of the Department of Media and Communication from 2006 to 2009 and elected academic Governor of LSE from 2005 to 2010. She holds an Honorary Professorship at SPRU/Sussex and was Honorary Professor at the Learning, Information, Networking Knowledge Centre, Graduate School of Public & Development Management, University of Witwatersrand from 2005 to 2010. She was elected President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) from 2004 to 2008, the worldwide professional association for academics in the field. She continues her active membership as co-Chair of the IAMCR Task Force on Media and Communication Policy and its Finance Committee (2008 to the present). She served as a Trustee of the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex from 1999 to 2009 where she continues to serve as an active member of their Fellowship Review and Promotion Board and is developing a new line of research on the political economy of the ‘knowledge-based economy’ jointly with them. She is author of Mobilizing the Information Society: Strategies for Growth and Opportunity (Oxford University Press 2000 with W E Steinmueller) and editor of The Handbook of Global Information and Communication Policy (with Marc Raboy, in press 2011), The Information Society (Critical Studies in Sociology) (Routledge 2009), The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies (Oxford University Press 2007), and Trust and Crime in Information Societies (Elgar 2005). She is author of many journal articles and has undertaken and led many externally funded research projects over the years, funded by the European Commission, research councils, governments and UN agencies, most recently the 9million Euro OPAALS project ( http://www.opaals.eu/).