Web 2.0 Teaching Tools
MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy. MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, collection of peer reviewed higher education, online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services.
MERLOT is probably the largest social network for sharing educational resources in higher education. Currently the site claims to have 16,566 Materials (learning materials and assignments), and 45,057 members (faculty, students, librarians, and others).
The website is divided into the following sections:
- Learning Materials - Browse peer reviewed online learning materials in your discipline.
- Colleagues - Find expert colleagues in your discipline.
- Personal Collections - View personal collections from people in your discipline.
- Assignments - Get assignments you can use with your students.
- Guest Experts - Find guest experts in the Virtual Speakers Bureau.
MERLOT’s 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.
About the MERLOT collection
The MERLOT Repository is not only learning materials. Along with the learning materials, members have contributed assignments and comments to enhance the teaching experience of an exercise. The learning materials are categorized into 11 different material types. A large selection of materials in MERLOT also have assignments and comments attached to them. It is also possible to add any material to a personal collection, to make organizing your teaching materials for each of your courses. Snapshots have also been created for some materials to provide more depth to a material, by the author of the material.
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