Session 21

Title: Putting Educational Innovations into Practice with MERLOT

Session Description:

MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching) is a free, web-based resource and community designed to help you find online teaching and learning materials quickly and easily. It is a continually growing catalog of online teaching tools and support resources that help you enhance your instruction. MERLOT is also an active community of people like you, who strive to enrich their teaching and learning experiences with technology. Reduce the burden of innovation for faculty, academic technology staff, librarians, students, and administrators.

• Find the right online materials and advice faster with our improved browsing and with more peer reviews than before.
• Find experts and peers in the online teaching community through our expanded member services.
• Personalize MERLOT services so you get the resources and communications you want.
• Share your expertise easily, and build relationships with peers who value your expertise.
• Participate in building a free and open educational community for the world.
• Receive recognition for your contributions to the MERLOT community.

Come to this session and learn how to become a member of MERLOT, find your own discipline community and search for learning objects to use in your teaching. 

Presenter: Lori Swinney, Ph.D.

Lori Swinney is Director of the Center for Instructional & Learning Technologies and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in Educational Foundations and Research at the University of North Dakota. She received her Ph.D. in Teaching & Learning, Higher Education with a cognate in Instructional Design & Technology from the University of North Dakota and teaches several graduate courses including, Introduction to Web Based Instruction and Multicultural Education in the College of Education. In her position at the Center she works with faculty integrating technology into teaching, learning and research as well as providing instructional technology support to students, faculty and staff inside and outside of the classroom. Her research interests include the use of social software tools to engage students in developing critical thinking skills in the learning process.