8:30AM-12:00PM Emerald II
Pre-Conference Workshop
(Pre- registration required)
Guidelines
for Authors of Learning Objects Rachel S.
Smith,
New Media Consortium Larry Johnson, New Media Consortium
Learning objects. Perhaps you've been using them in your courses, and now you
want to create some. But where to start? What issues should you consider?
What best practices should you be aware of? This workshop provides a gentle,
but thorough, grounding in the how, what and why of learning objects. We will
offer practical advice for designing for usability - and reusability; for
keeping your learning objects learner-centered and learner-driven; for
aligning with current metadata standards; and for making your objects
accessible to everyone. We will share tips for "marketing" your
finished work and point you to resources for follow-up information.
Who Should Attend: Faculty, instructional designers, and others who
are just beginning to develop learning objects.
8:30AM-12:00PM Emerald III
Pre-Conference Workshop
(Pre- registration required)
How
to Evaluate Your Online Course Judith Norton, California Virtual College Laura Sederberg, California State University Chico
In this interactive workshop, participants will work together to evaluate the
quality of their own online courses. Using California State University, Chico's
nationally recognized Rubric for Online Instruction, participants will
peer-review each other's courses and brainstorm strategies for resolving
common teaching and design challenges. Through discussion and small group
activities, participants will develop an action plan for improving the
quality of their online courses.
Who Should Attend: Faculty, designers, and support staff interested in
evaluating and enhancing the quality of their courses through peer-based
feedback. Participants should be prepared to provide guest access to a
course.
11:00AM-12:00PM Pacific Ballroom II
MERLOT
Business Meeting General Session
12:00PM-1:00PM Catalina Ballroom
MERLOT
Business Meeting Luncheon
1:00PM-4:30PM Emerald II
Pre-Conference Workshop
(Pre- registration required)
Evaluating
the Usability of Online Materials for Student Success Melanie Wetzel, Center for Usability Design and
Assessment Barbra Bied Sperling, Center for Usability Design and Assessment
Users must be of central consideration in the development and implementation
of learning modules if they are to be successful. Usability testing evaluates
the effectiveness, ease of learning, ease of using, and preference for using
technologies from the user's perspective. In this workshop, tools and
techniques of usability testing will be introduced and reviewed. Through
hands-on experiences, you will learn simple methods for identifying user
difficulties with a variety of websites. This workshop is a must for faculty
who want to develop their own learning objects, who use learning objects in
their classrooms and teaching, or who want to develop peer reviewer skills.
Who should attend: Faculty, instructional designers, others who
develop learning modules, or other digital learning resources, and people who
use learning objects in their classrooms and teaching, or who want to develop
peer reviewer skills. This workshop is directed towards those who are new to
usability evaluation and assessment.
1:00PM-4:30PM Emerald III
Pre-Conference Workshop
(Pre- registration required)
Digital
Rights Management in the Academy Robby Robson, Eduworks Corporation Authors want attribution, publishers want copy protection and most people
just want to use what they find. Intellectual property laws differ from
country to country and are becoming evermore complex. Meanwhile, the academy
is investing in digital repositories like MERLOT with the expectation that
content will eventually be widely shared and reused within and across
institutional and national boundaries. If this is to happen, something must
be done about managing rights. But what?
Traditional digital rights management associated with commercial music, video
and e-books focuses on protection rather than sharing. It does not address
issues critical to the academy such as allowing fair use, enforcing scholarly
attribution, and supporting open source development and distribution models.
However, new approaches that show more promise are emerging and being
prototyped. We will describe these approaches and examine how they are clarifying
the rights management requirements of the academy. We will look at what is
being done, what might work for the MERLOT community, what won't work, and
where there are gaps to fill.
Who should attend: This workshop is appropriate for (a) persons involved
in managing, supporting, implementing or setting policies for collections of
educational resources and learning environments and (b) faculty who author or
review resources. Participants will benefit the most if they have a personal
or institutional context for rights management issues and a basic familiarity
with digital library or course management technology.
1:00PM-4:30PM Pacific Ballroom I
MERLOT
Stewardship Workshop – Pre-Registration Required Open to
Project Directors and their selected teams.
1:00PM-4:30PM TBA
MERLOT
Editorial Board Meetings
4:45PM-5:45PM Balboa Bay I
Session
Facilitator’s Meeting
6:00PM-7:00PM Pacific Ballroom II
Overview of the MERLOT Vineyard: A Tour for Attendees New to
MERLOT and the MERLOT International Conference
MERLOT
provides a wide range of products and services for the academic community.
This presentation will provide first time attendees of the MERLOT
International Conference with tips on how to make the best of the conference.
Also presented will be a brief introduction and review of MERLOT services,
programs and governance processes.
6:00PM-7:00PM Balboa Bay II
Faculty
Development and MERLOT Library Initiative Workshops Orientation (Pre-Registration Required)
7:00PM-9:00PM Catalina Ballroom
Sponsored by
Welcome
Reception
Please join us to celebrate the opening
of our fourth MERLOT International Conference. Hors d’oeuvres, cash bar and
plenty of time to mingle and meet the people that make MERLOT such a lively
vintage!
Eric Duval is the president of the ARIADNE Foundation (www.ariadne-eu.org)a European Association the mission of
which is to enable better quality learning through the development of
learning objects, tools and methodologies that enable a “share and reuse”
approach for education and training.He also coordinates work on learning objects, metadata and
interoperability within the ProLearn Network of Excellence.Duval is a computer science faculty
member with the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. His research
interests include standards in interoperability to realize an open, global
infrastructure for learning, learning object metadata, human-computer interaction
in a learning or digital repository context and the application of
information and communication technology in education and training.
Explore what we are learning from a job-embedded, team-based online pilot for
professional learning and building communities of practice. The
“Collaboratory” is a model for professional interaction that employs a
three-prong support structure and curriculum-focused Web resource to
influence the practice of content-area teachers around adolescent literacy.
Learn how the Texas Collaborative for Teaching Excellence used Plone, an open
source content management system, to create an online working space for the
production of discipline-specific teaching modules. The result, dubbed CoLab,
transformed the development process by increasing the sense of community
among module developers, encouraging peer-review and feedback, and supporting
a common standard for published modules.
The reasons for using citations in research are well documented and citation
indexes such as ISI's Web of Science are well known. Citations acknowledge
the intellectual uses of others work and represent scholars’ influence and
impact. The worldwide web has made hyperlinking ubiquitous and citations can
be presented as web links, making the cited material immediately accessible
for novice learning. This paper discusses the promises of citations as socio-cognitive
instruments and the features of citation indexes for online,
interdisciplinary learning.
We will describe the use of several sites found on MERLOT in an introductory
microbiology course and in an upper level bioinformatics course. The sites
found in MERLOT are used to provide students with biological data and often
include the programs used to analyze the data.
You Say Tomato And I Say Tohmattoh Patricia Daron, Northern Virginia Community College Shaoyu Chi, Northern Virginia Community College Jeanne Gisvold, Northern Virginia Community College
Learning vocabulary when studying in a new field is challenging. This
predicament is significantly exaggerated in distance courses where students
learn through written language without oral reinforcement. Students may show
written mastery even though mispronunciation errors are significant. See how
materials have been designed and produced to solve this problem.
10:00AM-11:00AM
Pacific Ballroom I
Panel Session
Pedagogical
Uses for the Virtual Mesoamerican Archive Stephanie Wood, University of Oregon Judith Musick, University of Oregon
This presentation will include an introduction to the Virtual Mesoamerican
Archive, an online reference work, and its pedagogical uses: to prepare
students for intensive research, to provide faculty with material for
interpretive multimedia slide shows, and to help both teachers and students
locate quality scholarship on Mesoamerica on-line.
10:00AM-11:00AM
Pacific Ballroom II
Concurrent Session
FACULTY
DEVELOPMENT AND THE SCHOLARSHIP OF TEACHING
As classroom faculty members seek to contribute to the scholarship of
teaching and learning, the scholarship process involves submitting research
to an appropriate disciplinary journal or conference venue. This session
discusses the opportunities for faculty and librarians to collaborate to seek
information about models of good classroom-based research, and scholarly
publications for submission.
In order to encourage the creation of quality digital learning materials,
CARNet established seven reference centers that provide support to university
teaching staff in applying IT in teaching. Reference centers continuously
provide for an area of wider interest for the community, information via
network, as well as intensive support to users (helpdesk, etc.)
10:00AM-11:00AM
Laguna Beach I & II
Concurrent Session
Solutions for Collaborative Teaching and Research
John Schuman, Macromedia
This session presents results from case studies in which Macromedia Breeze
and Breeze Live were used to support direct instruction. Featured use
cases include an on-campus program example, a blended learning example and a
distance learning example. Each use case explored pedagogical, operational
and user experiences issues. Course reconfiguration considerations and
integration with campus IT infrastructure were also examined. We will
summarize "lessons learned" from these examples and offer a set of
practice-tested guidelines for implementing effective, engaging distributed
learning experiences.
10:00AM-12:30PM
Emerald II
Workshop
"Preparing
to Teach Online" - Transitioning Excellence from the Physical Classroom
to the Online Environment CANCELLED
Participants in this workshop will have the opportunity to explore web-based
simulations that promote inquiry-based learning. Software to be demonstrated
includes Biology Labs On-Line and Virtual Courseware for Earth and
Environmental Sciences. We will also demonstrate how assessment of learning
outcomes can be included in web-based learning activities.
11:00AM-11:30AM Pacific
Ballroom III/IV
Refreshment
Break in the Connections Room
11:30AM-12:30PM
Balboa Bay
Concurrent Session
MANAGING
INFORMATION AND IMAGE RESOURCES
A Layered Pyramid Model for Electronic Information Management Stephen Sheel, Coastal Carolina University Jean-Louis Lassez, Coastal Carolina University Tayfun Karadeniz, Coastal Carolina University
Notwithstanding technological advances, scholars suffer from information
overload. The number of online electronic resources, in particular PowerPoint
presentations, is growing at an exponential rate. This session describes the
implementation of an information management system that streamlines
dissemination of this invaluable source of electronic lecture materials.
Beyond the Slide Library: Creating a Pilot Digital Image Library Beth Harris, Fashion Institute of Technology
In the Spring of 2003, Fashion Institute of Technology undertook the creation
of a pilot Digital Image Library to support teaching the Art History survey.
This presentation looks at the process of creating the pilot, beginning with
our decision to use the Madison Digital Image Database through its
implementation in the classroom.
11:30AM-12:30PM
Laguna Beach III
Roundtable
Will
Your Tenure/Promotion Committee Recognize Your Teaching Innovations? Sebastian Uijtdehaage, Health Education Assets Library
(HEAL) Kevin Souza, University of California San Francisco School
of Medicine Gerald Hanley, California State University Long Beach Hilarie Nickerson, University of North Carolina Kylie Hsu, California State University Los Angeles
In higher education, digital educational materials developed by faculty
members are rarely recognized by tenure/promotion committees. In this
roundtable discussion we will share lessons learned and strategic approaches
for promoting the acceptance of peer reviewed teaching materials by
tenure/promotion committees.
11:30AM-12:30PM
Laguna Beach I & II
Concurrent Session
This session will introduce participants to the concept of ePortfolios and
share how the authors have designed this pilot project to enhance student
learning. We will encourage participants to consider how ePortfolios could be
used as a transformative technology on their own campuses.
Portfolio based assessment is becoming a more widely accepted method for
faculty to verify the effectiveness of their teaching, provide for
student-directed learning and assessment, and provide a method for monitoring
outcome based standards. This session will discuss establishing e-portfolio
objectives, policies for electronic submission, types and models, as well as
scoring rubrics.
11:30AM-12:30PM
Emerald I
Panel Session
Teacher
Education Investigates MERLOT: Factors That Influence Online Communities Tamarah Ashton, California State University Northridge Barbara Levin, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Darrell Pearson, Troy State University Cris Guenter, California State University Chico Diane Judd, University of Georgia Jane Moore, Illinois Board of Higher Education Nancy Pelaez, California State University Fullerton Richard Staley, SUNY Geneseo David Wicks, Seattle Pacific University
Results of a research study conducted by the Teacher Education Editorial
Board are the focus of this session. All MERLOT Editorial Boards were
surveyed regarding the advantages of building and sustaining online
collaborative communities. It was found that phone calls and face-to-face
communication are essential to successful virtual communities.
11:30AM-12:30PM
Pacific Ballroom I
Panel Session
Using
MERLOT to Engage Students in the Teaching/Learning Process James Rutledge, St. Petersburg College Kurt Cogswell, South Dakota State University John St. Clair, Tennessee Board of Regents Sergey Belyi, Troy State University Bernd Schroeder, Louisiana Tech University Patricia Taylor, Thomas Nelson Community College
This presentation will focus on how MERLOT Math Editors are
learning materials with their students and how these materials have broadened
and enriched their students’ learning environments. MERLOT-related student
assignments will be described; in general, student response has been very
favorable and surprisingly multi-faceted.
11:30AM-12:30PM
Pacific Ballroom II
Concurrent Session
Universities select from several approaches to provide for the support and
dissemination of teaching technologies. The University of Missouri-Columbia
employs a student support model to assist and coordinate its faculties’
development of educational technology components and tools. This session
explains the structure and processes under which this student team operates.
Stories from a Slippery Slope: Building a Campus MERLOT Community at Ohio
University Ann Kovalchick, Ohio University Karin Sandell, Ohio University Thom Luce, Ohio University Gary Coombs, Ohio University David Shafie, Ohio University Jorg Waltje, Ohio University Dorothy Bryant, Ohio University Valerie Young, Ohio University
Ohio University joined MERLOT in 2004 as a freshman Campus Partner. This
session presents our implementation model including development of collegial
peer review teams. We focus on challenges to building a sustainable culture
around a scholarship of teaching and learning with technology and invite the
audience to share their own stories.
12:30PM-1:30AM
Catalina Ballroom
Lunch
Bird of a Feather tables have been designated –
please find a topic of interest and join a lively conversation!
1:30PM-2:30PM Pacific
Ballroom III/IV
Dessert
and Activities in the Connections Room Poster
Session abstracts can be found at the end of this program.
Sponsored
by
2:30PM-3:30PM
Balboa Bay
Concurrent Session
USING
MERLOT IN THE DISCIPLINES II
Using Online Learning Materials in Engineering Curricula Ed Perry, University of Memphis Joseph Tront, Virginia Tech Patrick Mensah, Southern University and A&M College Rassa Rassai, Northern Virginia Community College Valerie Young, Ohio University
Engineering educators from several disciplines will share their experiences
in using online learning materials in their respective learning environments.
Examples of the learning objects used will be presented along with typical
assignments involving these materials.
Pedagogical Advantages of Integrating MBL and Simulation into Chemistry
Laboratory Instruction Moustapha Diack, Southern University and A&M College
This presentation reports on our current NSF/CCLI/Adaptation project entitled
“Collaborative Chemistry Laboratory Model” or CCLM Project. The model uses
collaborative learning methods to integrate Microcomputer Based Laboratory
(MBL) with Interactive Multimedia Simulations (IMS). We will discuss the
design and field-testing of CCLM experiments in freshman chemistry and
propose instructional delivery methods that can help students explore the
connections between data and theory.
2:30PM-3:30PM
Laguna Beach III
Roundtable
Herding
Cats: A Faculty e-Learning Initiative Reviewed Richard Dunnill, Canterbury Christ Church University College
This session is based on the e-learning strategy developed and underway at
the Faculty of Education, Canterbury Christ Church University College, UK. It
will involve participants in a critical review of the way the Faculty has
planned, organized, implemented and managed its strategy for e-learning over
the last two years.
The Language Acquisition Resource Center (LARC) at San Diego State University
assembled a consortium of five institutions (three universities, one military
language training unit, and one professional association) to create oral
diagnostic screening instruments on a nationwide scale for Arabic, Spanish,
and Persian. The project meets an increasing need for diagnostic evaluation
of the language abilities of language professionals and relies on digital
media stored in an efficient sharable MERLOT-compatible format.
This session presents a web-based learning module designed for Intermediate
Chinese at California State University, Los Angeles. The design is based on
the peer review criteria established by the MERLOT World Languages Board. The
presentation is intended for faculty, students, authors of language
instructional materials, and instructional technology practitioners.
This session will describe an initiative involving faculty across the
Oklahoma State System, exploring how tools like MERLOT promote more effective
and efficient teaching and learning. Panelists will give various perspectives
on the project, which involves faculty in developing and identifying
strategies for use at campuses and the system level.
2:30PM-3:30PM
Pacific Ballroom II
Concurrent Session
INSTRUCTION
AND PEDAGOGICAL FACULTY DEVELOPMENT
Instructional Design Skills for Online Learning Sandra Cobb, Mid-South Community College
Recognizing that instructors are Education’s greatest assets, and that the barriers
that prevent or deter them from applying their expertise to the art of online
instructional design need to be removed, the author found a way to train
faculty to use tools that make it simple.A 12-week on-line course that teaches instructional design skills for
online learning will be showcased.
This session will demonstrate web-resources that intimately link teaching
materials with information about pedagogic methods to help faculty prepare
for individual courses or classes. Geoscience examples will demonstrate an
approach that is broadly applicable to the design of faculty professional
development activities across the disciplines.
PDAs are all over and they are powerful tools for teachers and students.But which one is the one to use? How can
they be used in the classroom and can they benefit student learning?In this workshop, we will answer these
questions and any others the attendees have.If you have a PDA, bring it to this workshop…you’ll be glad you did!
This workshop, jointly hosted by the Carnegie Foundation and MERLOT, is
designed to help the authors and users of MERLOT resources document their
pedagogical knowledge and experience in creating and/or using these materials
to promote effective peer-review, author-user interactions, and the
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. The session will provide both
intellectual and technical “hands-on” guidance in taking advantage of the
KEEP Toolkit to create intellectually engaging and visually appealing
e-portfolios that advance MERLOT work.
3:30PM-4:00PM Pacific
Ballroom III/IV
Refreshment
Break in the Connections Room
4:00PM-5:00PM
Balboa Bay
Concurrent Session
COLLABORATION
AT ALL LEVELS
Towards a Disciplinary Educational Library in Physics and Astronomy Bruce Mason, University of Oklahoma
Four Physics and Astronomy professional societies have created an online
resource for education and educators, ComPADRE. This talk will describe our
design considerations to meet the diverse needs of our users, and the
collaborations with other groups and libraries, including MERLOT.
Collaboratively Designing/Developing Learning Objects in CLOE Peter Goldsworthy, University of Waterloo Kevin Harrigan, University of Waterloo
CLOE is Ontario’s post-secondary peer-reviewed Learning Object Repository.
CLOE has undertaken several collaborative initiatives including Learning
Impact Studies, Case Stories demonstrating reuse of Learning Objects, and the
collaborative development of Learning Objects across partner institutions.
Our presentation will feature three institutions collaboratively creating one
Learning Object and will show the resulting benefits of this collaboration.
4:00PM-5:00PM
Laguna Beach III
Roundtable
Teaching
with MERLOT Across Disciplines William Paquette, Tidewater Community College Edward Perry, University of Memphis James Rutledge, St. Petersburg College Kylie Hsu, California State University Los Angeles Margarita Esparza Hodge, Northern Virginia Community College
Elsa Nystrom, Kennesaw State University
How do you use MERLOT resources effectively in the classroom? This roundtable
will share experiences in including History, World Languages,
Mathematics and Engineering and will provide a variety of concrete ways to
engage students with MERLOT materials that work across the disciplines.
Learning introductory programming concepts can be as foreign as trying to
learn another verbal language. Concepts sound mysterious and the steps to
achieving working code an experience analogous to making one's way through a
maze. Finding just the right real world experience that is simple enough for
all to understand yet filled with real decisions and thought processes for
exploring programming concepts is not easy. Consider using a simple game to
cover all the basics.
Designing Rubrics and Self-Assessments for On-Line Learners Jeff Bell, California State University Chico
Well-designed rubrics can be used to enable student self-assessment of their
work and to aid the instructor in grading assignments. This session will go
over some examples of rubrics, how these can be turned in to effective
self-assessment tools for the student, and some of the potential problems.
What do you get when you team a training program with two large-scale content
distribution platforms? Innovative technology training serving 85,000 faculty
and staff at 109 California Community Colleges (CCC). We will discuss the
relationships between technology and content, our collaborative process, and
marketing outcomes in this collaboration between the @ONE Project, CCC
Confer, and CCCSAT.
4:00PM-5:00PM
Pacific Ballroom II
Concurrent Session
MODELS
FOR DEVELOPING DIGITAL LIBRARIES AND REPOSITORIES
CLIP – Cooperative Library Instruction Project Allen McKiel, Northeastern State University
This session will describe CLIP-Cooperative Library Instruction Project. CLIP
provides a model for shared creation and use of standardized, mix-and-match,
Internet-based instruction modules. Modules have three components: ten to
twenty minute audio/visual Flash presentation, an exercise, and a
multiple-choice test.
Content Sharing - An European Perspective on Learning Object Repositories Mario Aehnelt, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics
Rostock
Within the last years a multitude of international initiatives and projects
have focused on the technology enhanced distribution and re-use of digital
learning material through Learning Object Repositories like MERLOT. This
presentation introduces attendees to their objectives, contents and results
reporting under a European perspective.
4:00PM-5:00PM
Laguna Beach I & II
Concurrent Session
Management and Delivery of Learning Objects Using Blackboard Academic Suite™
The Blackboard Academic Suite™ provides an
effective platform for management and delivery of learning objects. This
session will address: (1) the role of learning objects in the Blackboard Learning System™ and Blackboard Content System™, two of the
applications in the Blackboard Academic
Suite, (2) a demonstration of the Blackboard
Content System and its Learning Object Catalog feature that allows
institutions to create and manage institutional repositories of learning
objects, and (3) future directions for the incorporation of learning objects
into education delivered on the Blackboard platform and for interoperability
between learning object repositories.
5:00PM-6:00PM
Faculty
Development Workshop (Pre-Registration
Required)
Learning
Object Fair and Poster Sessions in Connections Room
This fair is an opportunity for you to meet the
authors and developers of learning objects and materials, and learn about
these innovative projects. Mingle with the authors and developers as they
give short introductions to their projects. The following morning meet over
breakfast for an in-depth demonstration and review of the projects that most
interest you.This is an excellent
opportunity to find out about learning objects that are 'in-process' as well
as those that are complete and ready for release. It is also an opportunity
to work with others in how to reuse or use a learning object.
Abstracts describing these projects can be found at the end of this program.
Grab a
quick breakfast and participate in an in-depth review of the projects you
‘sampled’ on Wednesday evening.
7:00AM-8:00AM
Laguna Beach I & II
MELROT
Business Breakfast
8:00AM-9:00AM
Catalina Ballroom
Plenary
Session
Beginning the Third Decade: From Great Aspirations to Assessment and Accountability Kenneth
C. Green Founding Director, The Campus Computing Project
Kenneth C. Green is the founding director
of The Campus Computing Project (www.campuscomputing.net), the largest
continuing study of the role of Instructional Technology (IT) in American
higher education. The Project is widely cited as a definitive source for
information about IT planning and policy issues affecting American colleges
and universities. The author, coauthor and editor of a dozen books and
published research reports and more than three dozen articles in academic
journals and professional publications, Green is a featured speaker at some
two dozen conferences each year. Now in its fifth year, Green’s DIGITAL TWEED
column appears in Syllabus
Magazine.
In 2002 Green received the first EDUCAUSE Award for Leadership in Public
Policy and Practice. The award cites his work in creating The Campus
Computing Project and his "prominence in the arena of national and
international technology agendas.”
9:00AM-10:00AM Pacific
Ballroom III/IV
Poster Sessions and Refreshment Break in the
Connections Room
Refreshments
sponsored by
10:00AM-11:00AM
Balboa Bay
Concurrent Session
CAMPUS
AND SYSTEM BASED COURSE AND CONTENT REPOSITORIES
MIT OpenCourseWare makes the MIT faculty's course materials available on the
Web free of charge to any user, anywhere in the world. This session will
address the lessons learned during the publication of 500 MIT courses in
September 2003, including a review of findings from our 2003 Annual
Evaluation.
A growing challenge for educational systems is to create a learning object
repository for content being developed or acquired through system-wide
initiatives. This presentation discusses our approach to developing a dynamic
storage and retrieval system for the "stuff" faculty are building
and accumulating, and then making it available across the entire system.
This session will demonstrate a 4-month course that allows faculty to develop
quality materials while discussing the androgogy of online instruction.
Faculty develop goals and objectives, create a course map, develop quality
content, and discuss articles pertaining to online instruction. The training
calendar, content development best practices, and course evaluation and
certification procedures will be shown.
We will share our success story of D2LLO - a collaborative project at the
University of Wisconsin System. Over 150 reusable and shareable learning
objects were created for training faculty to use a new course management
system that was deployed across all 15 institutions in the system.
10:00AM-11:00AM
Pacific Ballroom I
Panel Session
A
Walk Through the Vinyard: Teacher Education's Salute to Excellence Darrell Pearson, Troy State University Barbara Levin, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Tamarah Ashton, California State University Northridge Nancy Pelaez, California State University Fullerton Cris Guenter, California State University Chico Connie Pollard, Black Hills State University David Wicks, Seattle Pacific University Diane Judd, Valdosta State University Gary Manfready, Troy State University, Dothan Jane Moore, National-Louis University Richard Staley, Skyline College
This session will highlight the learning objects reviewed during the past
year by the Teacher Education Editorial Review Board. These learning objects
represent the best of MERLOT standards and the standards of the Teacher
Education Editorial Review Board. The presentation will highlight why each of
the objects are considered examples of excellence, but also will demonstrate
how these objects can be used in pre-service and in-service teacher education
training programs.
10:00AM-11:00AM
Pacific Ballroom II
Concurrent Session
Frank Vuotto
, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
This presentation details the application of business models to the design,
creation, implementation, and management of one of the most comprehensive,
subject-driven (business/agribusiness) information literacy websites in the
United States. More specifically, the idea of information literacy as a
product – created to meet user-driven needs, delivered via the Internet,
distributed effectively and inexpensively, and promoted through a variety of
marketing venues – will be discussed.
The learning object standards do not address appropriate formats for
instructional content adequately. This session will describe the use of a
Topic Reference Module (TRM) for the delivery of courses. A TRM is an easily
maintained topic executive summary created in combination with instructor
resources and separate, specific learning paths.
10:00AM-11:00AM
Laguna Beach I & II
Concurrent Session
Developing
a Framework for Digital Rights Management
The sale of digital learning content will not catch up
with the sales of textbooks until a trusted environment is established that
protects the rights of content owners. This includes determining, recording,
transmitting, interpreting and enforcing digital rights. A framework based on
traditional Internet e-commerce mechanisms, enhanced with digital rights
management techniques, is needed for creating a trusted open-standards based
e-marketplace for the exchange of digital learning content.
This
session presents a proposal for such a framework along with a prototype
implementation that was developed and tested as a trial in conjunction with
MERLOT.
How do you create effective online learning activities that truly engage
students with the content? This interactive workshop will address this
question as participants experience an effective strategy for developing
pedagogically sound activities that can be used with existing MERLOT objects
or incorporated into learning object design.
This workshop will discuss factors critical for the success of virtual
communities devoted to the collaborative construction and sharing of
knowledge, and will guide participants through the process of creating one of
their own on OpenCourse.Org, a free and open platform designed to support
virtual teams developing reusable learning assets. It is a hosted site and so
there is no software to install. It is a freeze-dried online collaboratory:
just add developers and stir!
The University of Oklahoma's College of Arts and Sciences offers an
ever-increasing number of online courses. Online students must complete a
one-time online Orientation, supplemented by course-specific orientation
activities. Learn how this two-tiered approach to orientation can increase
student success and retention in online courses.
The Virginia Community College System serves 50,000+ online students through
its Enterprise Systems. A significant challenge is to provide a low-cost,
24/7 student support structure. AskThemOnline’s Problem/Question Ticket
Application provides real-time solutions to students for any
college-delivered service. Requests for help that require employee
interaction have been reduced by more than eighty percent.
This
session demonstrates how learning objects have been used to improve student
understanding of abstract concepts in a physical oceanography course.Using the SCALE-UP physics model of
instruction and smart-classroom technologies, the creation of learning
objects has increased student collaboration and afforded instructors the
opportunity to implement other learning strategies.
This session, drawing on case stories of faculty
experience, will demonstrate applications of “out-of-classroom” technology
that add value to teaching by encouraging active and student-directed
learning.These applications,
including online surveys, and interactive games and puzzles, also allow
instructors to address student needs in a timely and direct way.
11:30AM-12:30PM
Laguna Beach III
Roundtable
Preparing
Future Faculty to Participate in the Digital Library Community Alan Wolf, University of Wisconsin-Madison Flora McMartin, MERLOT
How can MERLOT and other digital library communities integrate graduate
students into their activities? In this session, attendees will share their
experiences, ideas, and concerns as we consider how we involve graduate
students, and work with future faculty development initiatives (e.g. CIRTL -
http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/cirtl/) to expand our communities.
This session will present how MERLOT's Business Discipline Editorial Team has
evolved and developed over time into a "high performance virtual
team." Editorial members will describe how team goals, roles, procedures
and system tools were enacted to achieve its targets. Practical advice for
how virtual teams in academic settings can be initiated and sustained will be
discussed.
Federated searching allows searching for learning materials from multiple
partner collections, instead of searching each one separately. We will show
how the federated search of the UNC Professional Development Portal has
expanded the MERLOT Teaching and Technology Collection. We will also explore
how the MERLOT RSS (Rich Site Summary) feed can be used to promote the rich
MERLOT collection to faculty for their use in teaching and learning. This
panel will discuss how they have used the RSS feed to promote MERLOT.
11:30AM-12:30PM
Pacific Ballroom II
Concurrent Session
FROM
TEXTBOOKS TO THE VIRTUAL SPEAKER BUREAU: EXPANDING THE NOTION OF ONLINE
RESOURCES
Competitive Textbooks Developed with Public Domain Authoring Tools Bernd Schroder, Louisiana Tech University
This talk describes how public domain and low-cost authoring tools can be
used to create technical texts (mathematics, physics, etc.) that are
comparable in quality to commercial textbooks. Paired with an
"open" development model and on-demand printing, the author expects
this approach to have significant impact on the textbook market.
Guest experts can bring new knowledge, perspective and excitement to a class.
In March of 2004, Colorado Community Colleges and MERLOT signed an alliance
to bring a Virtual Speaker Bureau to the MERLOT Community. This session
presents examples of successful online discussant events, provides resources
for successful class visits, and allows participants to search MERLOT for
guest discussants, and learn how to list themselves in the MERLOT database as
a guest discussant if they so choose.
12:30PM-2:30PM
Catalina Ballroom
Sponsored
by:
MERLOT
Awards Luncheon
Join us
to celebrate the selection of the 2004 MERLOT Classics and Editors
Choice Awards, and 2004 California Virtual Campus Awards. These awards,
selected annually, recognize and promote outstanding online learning
materials designed to enhance teaching and learning, and honors the authors
and developers of these materials for their contributions to the academic
community.
Douglas Engelbart envisions improving human communities through innovative
technology that unites minds and machines in solving complex problems.Two universities have joined in his
exploration of the augmented collective IQ.Here Engelbart, Cooksey and Landau discuss the curriculum infusion
project deployed at their universities last Spring wherein students explored
and applied elements of the Engelbart hypothesis.The project’s history, the course plan, techniques and
technologies used, and evaluation of the results will be reviewed.
This interactive action-reflection session will highlight effective practices
in developing and sustaining diverse online communities.These findings are based on the research
and experiences of the presenters who participated in a pre-conference online
dialog regarding the impact of diversity (gender, race, and other
socio-cultural factors) on online learning.The primary audience for this session includes technology and digital
library developers, administrators and faculty in higher education, online
course developers and facilitators, and researchers.
2:30PM-3:30PM
Laguna Beach III
Roundtable
Using
Online Resources to Support Higher Level Learning Pearl Chen, California State University Los Angeles Adelaide Doyle-Nichols, California State University Los
Angeles
This session focuses on using online resources to create learning activities
that support students' higher levels of cognitive engagement in the online
environment. Participants will learn about ideas and design strategies for
planning effective learning experiences with online resources and see samples
of online content.
2:30PM-3:30PM
Emerald I
2004
Editors' Choice Award Showcase Dr. Richard Latner, Tulane University
This year, the MERLOT Editors' Council is pleased to Showcase the 2004
Editors' Choice Award, Crisis at Fort Sumter. Dr. Richard Latner will
demonstrate this award-winning site during this session.
Crisis
at Fort Sumter is an interactive historical simulation and decision-making
program using text, images, and sound to reconstruct the dilemmas of policy
formation and decision-making in the period between Abraham Lincoln's
election in November 1860 and the battle of Fort Sumter in April 1861.
Viewers place themselves in Lincoln's position, consider the events that
transpire, and choose a course of action atfive critical
junctures cal
Developing
a Framework for Digital Rights Management