Streamline Training & Documentation: The MERLOT Portal for Learning Resources

Monday, April 16, 2007

The MERLOT Portal for Learning Resources

The MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) portal, created under the auspices of the California State University, provides a searchable collection of online higher education materials, all of which are briefly annotated, and many of which are peer-reviewed.

The materials are primarily for faculty and students at colleges and universities, and thus their use is restricted to personal, non-commercial, and educational purposes. (Consult MERLOT's acceptable use policy for details.)

MERLOT has set up an editorial board to oversee each of its fifteen discipline communities — Business, IT, Statistics, Teaching and Technology, World Languages, etc. The members of the editorial boards are university faculty chosen for their:

Expertise in the scholarship of their field

Excellence in teaching

Experience in using technology in teaching and learning

Connections to professional organizations in their discipline

Experience in conducting peer reviews of online learning materials

Within its discipline, each editorial board is responsible for:

Expanding and managing the collection of online learning materials

Educating and reaching out to the community of educators

Implementing and managing the peer review process for materials

Recruiting and training peer reviewers

As just one example of what is available through MERLOT, you can have a look a "The Successful Media Interview." IMO this is a small gem of useful guidance on how to prepare for an interview with a reporter, how to conduct yourself during the interview, and how to follow up.

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