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MERLOT and Softchalk OER Workshops - Archived
OER Session 1 - Defining OER: The WHAT and the WHY
What is an Open Educational Resource? Why is the OER movement growing in popularity so quickly? Why would you want to use or create OER materials? How do you license OER materials? |
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View the archived session at: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/592682576
NOTE: You will have to actually register for the session (which is over) in order to view it. |
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In the first of this OER webinar series, Cathy Casserly, CEO of Creative Commons, will answer these questions and more in an interview by Mitchell Levy, CEO of Happy About. Cathy is formerly the Director of OER Initiatives at The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. She was also Senior Partner and the Vice President for Innovation and Open Networks at the Carnegie Foundation. Several OER collections will be reviewed including College Open Textbooks, Connexions, MERLOT and SoftChalk CONNECT. |
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OER Session 1 - Defining OER: The WHAT and the WHY |
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Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.5 or newer |
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Save the Date for Upcoming OER Workshops:
MERLOT has released updates, enhancements and changes to the website in recent months. For all the details go to http://taste.merlot.org/MERLOTEnhancements.html.
MERLOT releases upgrades to the site in June and August 2011
MERLOT is continuously enhancing the website with new and exciting features, as well as bug fixes to make your experience on the site easier. Some of the enhancements in recent months include:
- ePortfolio added as a new material type. Many MERLOT Content Builder web pages being developed can now be classified as an ePortfolio when be contributed to the repository.
- Personal Collection web service added to the repertoire of web services offered by MERLOT. Updates were also done to the Advanced Search (member and material) web services. For more information on our technology services, visit http://taste.merlot.org/merlottechnology.html#webservices.
- Addition of 1400+ Open CourseWare learning objects to the MERLOT Repository.
- Content Builder - MERLOT members now have the ability to upload add borders to their web page boxes. In addition, web pages that are made public will now be counted towards a user's ribbon count.
- Federated Search - Wikipedia and Scribd have been added to the list of libraries searchable from the Federated Search page.
To see previous enhancements to MERLOT, visit http://about.merlot.org/MERLOTEnhancements_past.html
MERLOT and SoftChalk present....OER Authoring in the Age of Cloud Computing A webinar was held on October 27 hosted by Softchalk and MERLOT. The session presented information and tools for using MERLOT and SoftChalk to author and publish Open Education Resources (OER) under creative commons licensing. It included demonstrations of how easy it is to search, discover, and integrate MERLOT digital content into media-rich lessons using SoftChalk. It also showed how to publish SoftChalk activities, lessons and eCourses to SoftChalk CONNECT, SoftChalk's new cloud-based learning object repository. Once learning content is hosted on CONNECT, it can easily be published into MERLOT, and shared with the entire MERLOT community.
To view the recording , click here.
The California State University System and SoftChalk Announce Strategic Integration Partnership - ..." the California State University, who recently launched the Affordable Learning Solutions campaign (http://als.csuprojects.org/) and maintains the premier, higher education online learning resources network (MERLOT), today announced a strategic partnership to support the creation, discovery, distribution and sharing of open educational resources. (8/24/10)
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Other MERLOT News items
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MERLOT Grapevine Newsletter - - The Grapevine is a newsletter that is sent three times per year to all MERLOT Members. It provides news and information that is of interest to those who are Members and utilize MERLOT. There are links here to the current issue as well as archived issues.
In the Vineyard Newsletter - In the Vineyard is a newsletter specifically for the MERLOT Leadership Community. Some of the information is repeated in the following issue of the Grapevine, but contains more information about Members of the Leadership Community. The current issue is found here as well as archived issues. Although it is directed to the Leadership Community, it is accessible to the general public, too.
Journal of Learning and Online Teaching (JOLT) - The MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT) is a peer-reviewed, online publication addressing the scholarly use of multimedia resources in education. JOLT is published quarterly in March, June, September, and December.
MERLOT Videos and Podcasts - Here you can find a variety of online videos and podcasts that have been captured and recorded. These offer insights to MERLOT including an Overview of MERLOT, specific Vignettes, Award Winner presentations, and Creative Commons presentations.
MERLOT Presentations - Read and listen to presentations about MERLOT, by MERLOT staff.
MERLOT Member Publications -
This provides links to publications of the MERLOT Leadership Community and includes both Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Marketing Materials - Materials at this site are used to help market MERLOT and to provide information about a variety of topics. The Marketing Materials include both Videos and Brochures.
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