http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Sat, 25 May 2013 05:02:46 PDT Sat, 25 May 2013 05:02:46 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=89335 This is a series of "lectures" that describe the concept of double entry accounting, the balance sheet and the income statement. Students can read through the lectures, see examples, and take practice quizzes. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=89350 These are a series of 20 mini-cases that concern ethical dilemmas in business. The game was designed to educate the employees of Lockheed Martin (and other high tech corporations that have adopted the game) about ethical norms, corporate support for coping with ethically significant problems, and corporate policy. Each mini-case is accompanied by four candidate answers and each of these answers has a score between -20 and +15 and a brief explanation. In some places discussion and commentary (identified as to author) have been added to on Lockheed Martin's answers and scores. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=77309 This site is a great tutorial, consisting of a number of different chapters. The basic HTML tutorial explains HTML and is followed by chapters on developing one's own webpage. Additional suggestions follow such as Promotion, Generating Revenue, Getting a Domain, Hosting, and Design http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=81581 This site presents Johari's Window which is a simple and useful tool for illustrating and improving self-awareness, and mutual understanding between individuals within a group. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=76739 This overview covers an introduction to simple interest and compound interest, illustrates the use of time value of money tables, shows a matrix approach to solving time value of money problems and introduces the concepts of intrayear compounding, annuities due, and perpetuities. A simple introduction to working time value of money problems on a financial calculator is included as well as additional resources to help understand time value of money. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=90385 This is a tutorial on Business Ethics provided by the Free Management Library. The tutorial covers a number of different topics on ethics, provides some real life examples and also provides some exercise sheets for evaluating ethical scenarios. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=296430 Intended to establish a base-line set of information literacy competencies for students, the tutorial is designed to incorporate higher-order critical thinking skills. It includes Choosing Research Topics, Identifying Needed Information, Search Strategies, Evaluating Information, and Citing Information. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=87216 This is a ThinkQuest that involves the story of a fictional defendant as he faces one of the most serious charges that the legal justice system of the U.S. can levy against an individual. According to the author, the story describes the events of a criminal prosecution as they would acutally unfold and provides a glossary for legal terms. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=296426 CLUE (Campus Library User Education) is a Web-based, multimedia tutorial developed by the campus Library & Information Literacy Instruction Program and funded in part by a DoIT Adaptation Grant. The tutorial was designed to be part of a required information literacy module for the campus Communications Requirement courses but can also be used by anyone who wants to learn the basic information-seeking skills and strategies. This particular module is designed to explain to freshmen the differences between doing research for high school and research for college courses. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=77888 This web site is a tutorial designed for engineering students, but the management skills are applicable to other disciplines. Topics included here are: Teams and Groups, Presentation Skills, Time Management, Quality in the Team, Writing Skills, Delegation, Managing People, Oral Communication, Project Planning, and Becoming a Great Manager.