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Poniendo en práctica Innovaciones en Educación con MERLOT Inacap
1. Stone Soup for the 21st Century:
Putting Educational Innovations
into Practice
with MERLOT
Gerry Hanley, Ph.D.
Executive Director, MERLOT
Senior Director, Academic Technology Services, California State University System
September 10, 2013
2. Education is one of the
most powerful
personal, social and
economic
change agents in the
world.
3. How do we empower
people to teach and learn
what they need today and
tomorrow?
GIVE A GIFT, NOT A BURDEN
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5. Metaphors, Principles, and Innovations
• Engaging people and opening doors
• Recognizing and validating needs
• Exciting curiosity
• Creating the gathering place in the open
• Inviting solutions
• Offering personal contributions
• Encouraging publicity
• Enjoying the fruits of labors
• Celebrating accomplishments
• Saying Thank You
8. HOW CAN WE MAKE IT EASIER FOR
YOU TO SUCCEED?
If you’d like teach and learn with more
innovative pedagogies,
GIVE A GIFT, NOT A BURDEN
9. Gifts:
• Giver vs. Receiver
• The gift personally addresses the individual needs
and wishes of the Receiver
• It’s “Free” vs. It “Costs”
• Unconditional offering – Open Educational
Resources (OER) and Services
• Appreciating Gifts vs. Depreciating Gifts
• You adopt the gift as part of who you are and what
you do.
10. Who Needs the Gifts of Open
Educational Resources
• Faculty and teachers needing better
ways for their students to learn
• People at work needing better ways to
do their work
• Parents at home needing better
ways to help their children learn
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11. How do we enable
people to adopt open
educational resources
and services as gifts?
13. Learning by Doing (anytime)
• Learning Opportunity:
– The learning resource is FREE – Open
Educational Resource (OER)
• Learning Outcomes:
– Plan, conduct, & analyze experiments
– Apply the findings to a real world
problems - Design ways to have
“Green” heating and cooling systems,
you must understand thermodynamic
equilibrium.
14. Homework Helper
• Your child is learning pre-algebra and is having
some trouble learning to add and subtract
negative integers
– Learning Concepts by Explaining
– Learning Skills by Doing
• It has been a while since you’ve had to do this
• You want to help your child learn and have
them still love you
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15. Gathering Place & Inviting Solutions
• Join a worldwide community of innovative
educators using, advising, and sharing high quality
teaching materials for free.
• MERLOT provides you services and resources that
enable you to design the learning strategies.
• MERLOT’s services and resources can be blended
with INACAP and other projects so…
• You and your students can be empowered to
teach and learn successfully.
16. MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for
Learning and Online Teaching- www.merlot.org
A free & open community for all who use, share, advise & evaluate
online teaching & learning materials since 1997… 115,000+
members and growing.
A free digital library and educational support services for online and
face-to-face teaching and learning that is open for all to use.
41,000+ OER available and growing.
A consortium of higher education institutions, professional societies,
digital libraries, corporations, and other organizations
collaboratively “putting educational innovations into practice”.
26. An Open Digital Library is the
Pot and Water for Stone Soup
• Public Libraries have been providing facilities for
communities to share knowledge for many years.
• Open Digital Libraries, like MERLOT, can play an
empowering role by
– Providing free access to educational content
– Providing free access to pedagogies
– Freeing people to contribute content
27. Every Soup Needs A Cultural Base
Communicating in your primary
language is critical for you to
become personally connected to
teaching and learning
28. MERLOT’s Language Services
• MERLOT’s database can accurately store all
characters as well as right-to-left languages
(UTF8).
• All languages in the ISO Standard can be used to
catalog materials in MERLOT.
• MERLOT’s members can declare their language
skills in reading and speaking.
29. Stone Soup Principles:
Offering Personal Contributions &
Encouraging Publicity
• Sharing information about materials and people
• Contributing expertise in forms of comments,
peer reviews, lesson plans, personal collections…
• Contributing to online community discussions
• Authoring OER – MERLOT Content Builder
is a easy-to-use, “cloud” service
37. Why Use MERLOT Content Builder?
• Export to an IMS Common Cart package
– Creates OER to publisher accepted metadata standards
enabling the content to be effectively presented within
different LMS’s or downloaded
• “Encourages” Use of Creative Commons License
– http://creativecommons.org
– Some Rights Reserved and Some Rights Given
• It’s FREE and managed by a sustainable
organization (MERLOT)
38. Stone Soup Principle:
Enjoying the Fruits of Your Labors
• BUILD LOCALLY-LINK GLOBALLY
• MERLOT delivers a variety of web
services to your own technology
platforms
–Your Portal
–Your LMS
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• California State University
(CSU)
• Largest public baccalaureate
degree-granting institution in
the United States
• 23 campuses; 427,000
students; ~80%
undergraduate
• 1/3 of student receive
financial aid from the
government and/or the
university to pay for their
tuition.
45. Textbook Affordability Affects
Access to an Excellent CSU Education
• 186% rise in textbook costs from 1986-2004
– 6.1% increase per year (double inflation)
• CSU students paying $5,472 per year for tuition &
$1,000 per year for course materials
• CSU students pay over
$300,000,000 annually
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46. • Nationally, 7 of 10 students report not buying
at least 1 required text because of cost.
• 79% of all students state that they would do
“worse/much worse” in without their own text.
High costs have multiple effects on our
students’ ability to succeed and graduate
in a timely manner.
Student Responses to Costs
48. CSU Provides Access to
No & Low Cost Textbook Alternatives
1. Open Educational Resources: We connect faculty to over
1,000,000 FREE online instructional materials they can use to
construct their curriculum using MERLOT
2. Open Textbooks: We offer over access to over
2,250 FREE online materials formatted like eBooks.
3. CSU Library Resources: Our electronic library
collections provide students FREE access to
extensive resources
4. Lower Cost Publisher Content in both
electronic and hard copy formats.
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Making It Easier To Find Alternative
Content, Tools, Technologies, Policies,
Marketing and Deployment Strategies
www.affordablelearnngsolutions.org
52. Metaphors, Principles, and Innovations
• Engaging people and opening doors
• Recognizing and validating needs
• Exciting curiosity
• Creating the gathering place in the open
• Inviting solutions
• Offering personal contributions
• Encouraging publicity
• Enjoying the fruits of labors
• Celebrating accomplishments
• Saying Thank You
Open “Digital Library” of OER and Open Educational Services that enable faculty, students, staff, administrators, and everyone else to use and participate in the Community’s libraryWorldwide community of members who collaboratively contribute to MERLOT’s library and servicesHigher education leadership community which plans, manages, & finances MERLOT’s services