http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:29:03 PDT Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:29:03 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=331342 The MERLOT ELIXR project is intended to develop and test new collaborations amongst faculty development centers and online resource repositories. The goal is to create innovative models for the development, sharing and use of discipline-oriented resources which illustrate exemplary teaching practices and which also support faculty with exemplary learning objects to help implement those practices with their students.In September 2006, the Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education, a program within the U.S. Department of Education, funded a proposal for ELIXR from a team of MERLOT partners and affiliated institutions. The deliverables center around 96 case studies of exemplary teaching, grouped in 6 theme areas for faculty workshops with discipline-specific cases in 16 disciplines. For example, potential themes could include active learning in large lecture sections, or course redesign to enhance student learning while containing costs for instruction. The case studies involve video of both teachers and students to engage other faculty in trying new approaches, and will be accessed in faculty development workshops for the theme areas and also through MERLOT and other online resource repositories.The MERLOT ELIXR project team includes the CSU Center for Distributed Learning and seven campuses of the California State University where the initial pilot studies were launched in 2006; three MERLOT state system partners: Minnesota, Georgia and Oklahoma; and several leading campuses from a range of institutional types: Coastline Community College, Indiana State University, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio and the Ohio State University. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=302277 The Rubric Machine helps you build and use instructional rubrics in support of broader performance-based approaches to assessing student learning. Just log-on and begin developing your own tailor-made rubrics. Besides supporting the rubric design process, The Rubric Machine also enables you to save and archive your rubrics, modify them as needed, and format them for printing. You can read published articles, tips, and other resources to help you put rubrics into practice as part of your regular curriculum and instruction. Like all ThinkingGear tools, registration is free. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=302275 iRubric is a comprehensive rubric development, assessment, and collaboration tool. Designed from the ground up, iRubric supports a variety of usage in an easy-to-use package. Best of all, iRubric is free to individual faculty and students. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=298944 Online programs for recording,uploading,mixing and interacting. Free for non-commercial academic use!! A great tool for language classes, including asynchronous audio drop boxes and digital video uploads with subtitles. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=267191 A tutorial on using MERLOT RSS feeds in personalized home pages, email, and learning management systems. While the tutorial was designed for use in a face-to-face workshop, it could also be used in online instuction. It includes a couple of animations and a hyperlink to the information as a printed Word document.This learning resource was updated on 8/9/2008 to reflect the changes in MERLOT and web browsers. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=335365 This handbook is designed to help educators find, use, develop and share OER to enhance their effectiveness online and in the classroom. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=331500 This online workshops teaches users to use a blog as a course management system. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=302373 A basic introduction to how blogs can be used as a learning tool. Originally designed for a workshop, the material is itself a "blog" to demonstrate what can be done on blogs, even though that is not a recommended use of blogs. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=316396 This well crafted & simply elegant PowerPoint slide show hosted by Slideshare illustrates by example and content the fundamental do's and don'ts of presenting with PowerPoint. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=523356 Download the supporting PDF file for this episode http://bit.ly/fEveZU from the Learning to Teach Online project website.This case study examines the use of simple audio podcasts in a fully online distance education class, as part of the DUCKLING research project conducted by the Beyond Distance Research Alliance at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. It discusses the benefits of using podcasts as part of an integrated online learning strategy in a distance learning context, and gives an overview of how podcasts were used to introduce concepts, provide support for assignments, and to give students direct feedback on their work.