Oklahoma Faculty Advisory Council
October 8, 2010
“OPEN” DOORS
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Open Educational Resources (OER)
OpenCourseWare (OCW)
Open TextBooks
Open Access Journals
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Why is OPEN
Important?
Openness enables us to reuse, recycle, and/or
build upon other people’s work, materials,
expertise with appropriate attribution – It is
the “Academic Way”
But Open Resources Are Not Enough
– If I’m a faculty member
teaching students,
What open educational
SERVICES do I need?
If I’m academic technology staff,
librarian, administrator,
What open educational SERVICES
do I need?
MERLOT:
A free & open community for all who use, share, advise &
evaluate online teaching & learning materials since 1997…
88,000 members growing at 1,100+ per month
A free digital collection of online teaching and learning materials
that is open for all to use… 25,000+ materials across disciplines
contributed by members
A consortium of higher education institutions, professional
societies, digital libraries, corporations, and other
organizations supporting educational improvement through
technology
www.merlot.org
Textbook Affordability
and
MERLOT
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One Stop Shopping for Faculty,
Staff, and Students
http://als.csuprojects.org
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MERLOT Services for Everyone
• Easy and free access to content for teachers and
learners
• Enable custom reuse of OER into locally designed
curriculum
• Create personal collections for local priorities
• Find what “people like you” recommend and use
• Get connected with others
• Contribute and share your expertise
• Get recognition for your contributions
MERLOT Services for Partners
• Consulting Services
– Academic Technologies, Development & Implementation
– Grant Support
• Customized Technology Services
– Templates for Teaching Commons, Voices, Content Builder
– Web Services
• Customized (and other) Training
• Discounted registrations to annual conference
• Discounts from other MERLOT Partner and Affiliated
Organizations
Leverage means
moving from here…
Mass = 1
To here….
Mass = Educational Practices
Mass = MERLOT Community
Questions ?
Contact Information:
Phil Moss
[email protected]