http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Thu, 23 May 2013 01:31:56 PDT Thu, 23 May 2013 01:31:56 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=623156 The grant proposal awarded in 2002 by NSF National Science Digital Librarly (NSDL) for developing an online database tool for NSDL projects to to learn about the goals, activities, and capabilities of other digital library projects. The tool enables unmediated contribution of metadata about the goals, activities, and contact information. The proposal includes the development of the tool for MERLOT. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=623158 In this proposal, a consortium of NSDL developers (the Math Forum, MERLOT, iLumina, and Utah State University) seeks to improve the evaluation of educational DLs by advancing the state-of-the-art in evaluation, and by enhancing the evaluation capacity of NSDL projects and hence all digital libraries to conduct effective evaluations. The centerpiece of our approach will be the development of the Evaluation Community for Online Resources and Education -ECORE, an elearning, virtual and real collaboratory workspace designed for all digital library evaluators, prospective evaluators and members of the NSDL community to: a) share knowledge and resources relevant to educational digital library evaluation; b) create and refine existing toolsets and create new toolsets and resources to meet existing digital library evaluation needs; and c) help build the capacity of DL projects to plan and conduct effective evaluations of their services and collections, through access to evaluation resources, as well as through active and interactive outreach efforts. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=623160 The grant proposal awarded in 2000 by NSF National Science Digital Librarly (NSDL) for developing a peer review process for evaluating the quality of online learning objects. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=623162 The grant proposal awarded in 2002 by NSF National Science Digital Librarly (NSDL) for developing a self-paced tutorial for training peer reviewers to evaluate learning objects using MERLOT's evaluation standards. The propsoal also describes a mentoring process to complement the tutorial. HEAL and SMETE will use tutorial to train their reviewers. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=623164 The proposed project will leverage the existing community, collection, and processes of the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT), the leadership of MERLOT's partnering systems of higher education and strategically integrate the services of the Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access (CATEA), IDET Communications, Inc., McGraw-Hill publishers (STEM division) and the New Media Consortium (NMC) to deliver a suite of services with scalable and sustaining operations. there is a significant proportion of the American undergraduate population with currently unmet needs, preferences for distance education and a legal requirement to have an accessable education. The proposed Opening Science To All (OSTA) Program will produce four (4) strategic outcomes: 1. A cadre of over 4,500 STEM faculty and academic technology support staff, and over 650 academic leaders who have the knowledge and skills to effectively choose, create and use accessible online learning materials for STEM education. 2. A online collection of over 2,000 high quality, accessible online STEM materials will be available to improve student learning and will continually grow in depth and breadth. This collection will be created by: 3. The integration of accessible online materials into instruction through national training and education programs delivered regionally, nationally, and within disciplines and the production of online and published guidebooks on teaching students with disabilities. 4. The establishment of a sustainable institutional program for accrediting academic technology development and services as capable of developing accessible online materials and pedagogy as well as training faculty and staff on the effective delivering of accessible online curriculum with sound pedagogy for populations with disabilities. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=623166 This proposal summary of grant submitted by Portland State University with a subcontract to MERLOT ELVISS combines state-of-the-art, recent research and sound pedagogical practice to give a holistic approach to the learning process by placing it in a coherent, online context for all learners. The project is rooted in an inclusive and equitable approach, which does not regard the non-traditional student as an ?economy class? learner. ELVISS is unique in adopting an approach that provides both rich multimedia content combined with its adaptive delivery. All of this will be achieved within the framework of existing and emerging standards. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=623168 This 1999 FIPSE/LAAP proposal was one of the first grants submitted by the founding MERLOT partnersThe California State University (CSU), the University System of Georgia (USG), the University of North Carolina (UNC), the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education (OSRHE), and the State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO) propose a three-year project to build a national collection of peer-reviewed, student-tested, and competency-based learning modules that can be accessed by faculty and students״anytime, anywhere״via the world wide web. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=623170 The subcontract for supplemental funding for NSF Award DUE 0227888 (Columbia) that will advance NSDL sustainability activities through the year. The main objectives will be to accomplish several tasks associated with developing business models for the sustainability of the NSDL in the long term, and understanding and meeting the sustainability needs of NSDL projects in the near term. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=623172 This proposal summary submitted by University of Memphis with a subcontract to MERLOT proposed development of a virtual university will require the six enabling technologies: (1) Technologies for ubiquitous computing with animated conversational agents and with sensors of the learners in their environments, (2) intelligent software agents, (3) intelligent tutoring systems, (4) a repository of interoperable, computer-based learning content, (5) data mining, and (6) evaluations of human-computer interfaces, learning gains, and learner impressions. The University of Memphis and the FedEx Technology Institute will take to lead in assembling and developing these enabling technologies, with the help of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, MIT, University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Pittsburgh, the Federation of American Scientists, and DoD?s Advanced Distributed Learning Co-Labs. The students at universities and high schools in Tennessee, Illinois, and Pennsylvania will be the immediate beneficiaries of the learning environments, but the ultimate goal is to design an infrastructure for schools in the entire United States to have access to the internet freeway. Educational software should not be viewed as books or movies, but more like roads on the internet ? something that is built with tax dollars for everyone to use because it makes the nation more powerful. Indeed, the proposed budget is about the same cost as a few miles on the freeway. Business and industry will be positioned strategically along on freeway. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=623174 The supplemental grant proposal to design and deliver the 2001 NSDL All Projects Conference and development of Vision Support Planning Tool (prototype of Collaboration Finder).