Creating a MERLOT Teaching and Technology Discipline Community

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Creating a MERLOT Teaching and Technology
Discipline Community

• Ray C. Purdom, University of North Carolina at
  GreensboroKim Bayer, University of Michigan -
  Ann ArborColleen Carmean, Arizona State
  University WestIdanna Hamilton, Southwest
  Virginia Community CollegeThomas Nolan, Sonoma
  State UniversityJohn Prusch, SUNY Learning
  NetworkIris Seeley, Oakton Community
  CollegeJennifer Shinaberger, Coastal Carolina
  University

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At the 2002 MERLOT International Conference,
MERLOT created a new discipline community,
Teaching and Technology, whose primary goal was
to support faculty in teaching with technology.
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Initial Decisions

• Name of Collection
• Definition of Faculty Development
• Focus and Mission
• Organization of Collection
• Resource Types
• Subject Areas

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Mission Statement

• The MERLOT Teaching and Technology
  collectionreflects an inter-disciplinary
  community. Our primary goal is to support faculty
  in higher education by increasing their
  knowledge, productivity, and professional
  effectiveness in teaching with technology. The
  community includes instructors, instructional
  designers, faculty development officers and
  technology support providers.
• Community members contribute to the collection by
  adding reflections, best practices, instructional
  support ideas, resources and materials that
  advance the pedagogical understanding of teaching
  with technology, whether in the classroom, online
  or in blended models.

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Teaching and Technology Subject Areas

• Accessibility
• Assessment and Evaluation
• Best Practices
• Instructional Design
• Policies
• Scholarship of Online Teaching and Learning
• Selecting Tools
• Support and Training

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A Different Type of Collection

• Other MERLOT Discipline Collections consist
  primarily of learning objects and have students
  as the audience
• The Teaching and Technology Collection would have
• many how to resources, tutorials, workshop
  materials, etc.
• an audience of faculty in higher education and
  faculty support professionals not students

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Review Criteria

• Our Review Criteria is based upon MERLOTs three
  dimensions of peer review
• Quality of Content
• Potential Effectiveness
• Ease of Use
• In our criteria, we have given particular
  emphasis to whether the resource is likely to
  improve support for instruction in higher
  education by increasing knowledge, productivity,
  and professional effectiveness in teaching with
  technology.

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Current Tasks

• Organizing, culling, and reviewing the inherited,
  Teaching Well Online Collection
• Identifying and submitting quality resources
• Usability testing
• Expanding and publicizing our Teaching and
  Technology Community
• Pursuing partnerships