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MERLOT
The Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning
and Online Teaching (MERLOT) is:
- A free and continually growing catalog of more than 15,000
online learning materials, peer reviews, learning assignments, and user comments,
organized by discipline into specific discipline communities and created to help faculty
enhance their instruction.
- A community of more than 36,000 individual members, from
academia, business, and professional organizations, who strive to share and enrich
their teaching and learning experiences by contributing to MERLOT. Contributing and
sharing materials and resources is free to MERLOT members.
- A technology initiative with its own infrastructure and
dynamically designed set of technology tools and software development policies created
to help faculty integrate high quality online instructional technology resources into
their courses effectively, easily, and enjoyably.
- An international consortium of partners and affiliates who
cooperate to continually create, expand, and refine MERLOT to transform and improve
higher education.
MERLOT's strategic goal is to improve the effectiveness of teaching
and learning by increasing the quantity and quality of peer reviewed online learning
materials that can be easily incorporated into faculty designed courses.
MERLOT's vision is to be a premiere online community where faculty,
staff, and students from around the world share their learning materials and pedagogy.
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