Friday, Sept. 30: Open Educational Resources in Action — Have a Sip of MERLOT!
Loretta Driskel, Senior Instructional Designer with Clarkson University’s Office of Information Technology Teaching & Learning Corner will explore MERLOT, an acronym for Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching, in a webinar hosted by the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) this Friday, Sept. 30, from 1-2 pm Eastern. Everyone is welcome to register to attend.
Clarkson partners with MERLOT to help faculty members everywhere create engaging, diverse teaching and learning experiences for students and faculty. MERLOT is a website you can visit to look for Open Educational Resources (commonly known as OER) for your teaching, training and learning.
MERLOT has been around a long time (since 1997), well before OER (Open Educational Resources) became a buzzword.
Now 25 years later, you will find that many institutions are part of a network for sharing. Many can be found by using the SmartSearch tool to search at least 12 library learning materials beyond the nearly 100,000 added to MERLOT. What is unique about using the MERLOT materials is that not only do they have years of experience curating resources but the materials have been peer-reviewed by members of the discipline, which assures high quality.
Please join us for a tour of the MERLOT website, browse the collection and think about how MERLOT will benefit your teaching and learning practices. See you on Sept. 30.
Here’s to the power of merlot.org!
Click here to register for this session.
Contact for more information: Loretta Driskel, ldriskel@clarkson.edu, 315/268-5985.
