Welcome to the 5th Annual
MERLOT International Conference
Hosted by the Tennessee Board of Regents

July 25 – 28, 2005
Nashville Convention Center
Nashville, Tennessee

"Engaging the Global Community - Looking Over the Horizon"

Welcome
Join us for the 5th Annual MERLOT Conference to celebrate our accomplishments in creating and bringing together our global community of educators. This year, the Tennessee Board of Regents hosts the conference. Tennessee is the land of many innovations; it is here that Sequoyah devised the Cherokee alphabet in 1809. That innovative alphabet led to the literacy of the Cherokee Nation and expanded its world. This year, through our theme, Engaging the Global Community – Looking Over the horizon, we too will expand our understanding of the global world of online teaching and learning.

Our goal is to engage you in preparing for what lies beyond the horizon with the globalization of digital teaching and learning through pre-conference workshops, concurrent sessions, round tables, hands-on workshops, panel sessions in addition to our thought-provoking keynote addresses by world renowned leaders in higher education and technology.

The MERLOT International Conference is unique because we bring together the broad spectrum of higher education, from members of community colleges to research universities. We span the disciplines, linking together the faculty, students and administrators who focus on teaching and learning with technology.

Who Should Attend?
We encourage faculty, faculty developers, librarians, instructional technology professionals, researchers, and Provosts, Deans, etc., in all disciplines to participate as presenters and attendees.

About the Conference
The MERLOT International Conference is an annual meeting of the MERLOT community of partners to celebrate and share innovative practices that work for encouraging, engaging and sustaining campus members in teaching and learning with online resources. Conference attendees span the continuum from novice to expert in the development and use of online resources. In 2004 over 425 attendees participated in over 80 sessions.

2004 Conference was held in Costa Mesa, California. Visit the online conference proceedings.

Visit Conferences at the MERLOT home page for more Information on MERLOT and the archive of previous conferences.