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        <description>A search of MERLOT materials</description>
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            <title>Rubric for Online Instruction</title>
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            <description>Do you need help to raise the quality of an online learning component? Use this Rubric for Online Instruction to evaluate existing courses, self-evaluate your own online course, or to help you design new online courses. The Rubric has been modified in 2009 to include some language to better align instruction guidelines with &quot;accessibility for all.&quot; The companion piece &quot;Instructional Design Tips for Online Learning&quot; checklist is recommended to use along with the Rubric. It was designed by Joan Van Duzer of Humboldt State University. Check it out, http://www.csuchico.edu/tlp/resources/rubric/instructionalDesignTips.pdf. Over 95 institutions are currently using or modifing this rubric for their needs, as of May, 2009.</description>
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            <title>CSU Transforming Course Design initiative</title>
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            <description>The CSU Transforming Course Design initiative is based on previous work in higher education under a variety of labels, including most notably Academic Transformation (along with Learning Productivity, Comprehensive Course Design and others). These projects have extended traditional instructional design processes in significant ways, including the following key elements.1)  engaging teams of faculty and department leaders to insure sustainable course enhancements, along with team members from academic support units; 2) simultaneously addressing student success, quality of learning outcomes, and costs of instruction; 3) applying knowledge and resources from scholarly work in teaching and learning; 4) emphasizing assessment of student learning outcomes and sharing of exemplary practices.The website provides background information on Academic Transformation, case studies, and CSU&apos;s implementation strategies.</description>
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            <title>Design of a Tagged Electronic Database of Exam Questions (TEDEQ) as a Tool for Assessment Management within an Undergraduate Medical Curriculum.</title>
            <link>http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=614387</link>
            <description>Has your institution struggled to measure, analyze, and impact learning outcomes? The Ohio State University College of Medicine authored a white paper, which outlines an innovative question tagging system, to improve the way they execute exams and act upon results.</description>
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            <title>The Sustainable Campus</title>
            <link>http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=316179</link>
            <description>This web site is dedicated to promoting sustainable campuses throughout the world. There are links to the many resources available to help your campus transition to a more sustainable future.</description>
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            <title>Blinkx - Worldwide Video Search Engine</title>
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            <description>Blinkx is a worldwide video repository (35 million +) of videos created by video social networks. You will find videos created at all levels of expertise. Use Boolean logic to find videos about the specific topic of interest you are looking for or select from different categories provided by Blinkx website like Technology. Note: For minors make sure you use &quot;Safe Search On&quot; feature to block inappropriate content search results.</description>
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            <title>Colossus:  International Directory of Search Engines</title>
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            <description>Since 1998:  an International Directory of Search Engines:  &quot;Explore 313 Countries and territories; Search in other languages.&quot; An excellent surfing tool in searching for global Net and Web Media materials and resources.</description>
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            <title>Open Educational Resources Guidance Wiki</title>
            <link>http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=478338</link>
            <description>This wiki constitutes a collection of guidance documentation on all aspects of Open Educational Resources (OER), prepared by the STEM project teams from a number of Higher Education Academy/JISC OER pilot projects.The wiki contains an overview of OER, information on intellectual property rights, packaging and uploading resources, evaluating your resources and ensuring their promotion and sustainability.Though prepared by the STEM Subject Centres, the information is relevant to the majority of higher education disciplines.</description>
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            <title>Pedagogical Analysis - Effective Use of MERLOT Content Builder</title>
            <link>http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=546640</link>
            <description>MERLOT&#8217;s Content Builder is a free and open tool for you to create your own website. People have different goals for creating their own web pages and each goal can be better served by a different website design.Instructors can use the Content Builder tool to explain why and how using online materials can be result in desired student learning outcomes so others can successfully adopt the exemplary teaching practice. This analysis can be by the author of the curriculum or by users of the curriculum.This website is meant to show you the different types of designs that MERLOT members have created and these designs can then be models to help you plan the design of your own. The examples we provide are grouped into different categories of user.There are 11 parts to this website including Teaching e-Portfolios, Lesson Plans, Pedagogical Analysis, Learning e-Portfolios, Student Reflections, Online Courses, Tutorials, Presentations, Career e-Portfolios and Community Websites.  All can be accessed on the left side navigation.   Keep in mind that this entire site was created using the MERLOT Content Builder.</description>
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            <title>POWERT POINT</title>
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            <description>Caracteristicas generales de la realizar un powerpoint.</description>
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