BREAK OUT SESSION 2 STRATEGIC/ SYSTEMIC PLANNING FOR INTEGRATING OER AND MERLOT IN YOUR INSTITUTIONAL eLearning PLAN Target Audiences: Campus Leadership, eLearning Coordinators,elearning practitioners, Faculty Teaching Online using OER   Workshop Language : ENGLISH
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
This 5-hours session will cover the best practices for integrating the MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching) Services as part of your eLearning plans. MERLOT provides free services and OER that can enhance your online course delivery and your institutional online offerings. The participants will develop a PLAN for integrating the MERLOT OER Repository and how to best use the MERLOT Repositoryfor and contribute to the MERLOT Community. Through hands-on experiences and group work, • Participants develop draft plans for integration OER and MERLOT’s services into their institution’s e-learning projects • Participants acquire experience in discovering, organizing, and planning the use of OER and using MERLOT • Participants will feel comfortable and confident in leading the implementation of their plans for using OER and MERLOT in their institution • Participants will share their strategies and goals with each other and begin or enhance the network of partnerships with other African higher education leaders • Participants will enjoy the collaboration and learning as they plan innovations that can be implemented as soon as they return to their institution Download the Workshop Agenda Read the Story of Bineta ( by Gerry)
Worshop Host
Gerry Hanley, Executive Director, MERLOT	Gerry Hanley, Executive Director, MERLOT (Multimedia Education Resources for Learning and Online Teaching) & Senior Director California State University -CA, USA - Gerry Hanley is the Executive Director of Multimedia Education Resources for Learning and Online teacher (MERLOT) International organization. He is Senior Director of Academic Technology Services at California State University Office of the Chancellor, USA. Gerry is also a Professor of Psychology at California State University, Long Beach and also serves as the Director of the Center for Usability In Design and Accessibility (CUDA) at California State University Long Beach. Dr. Hanley received his Ph.D., MA, and BA from State University of New York at Stony Brook. (Gerry, a real friend of Africa - Promoting development through a Global Network)
More about MERLOT : http://www.merlot.orgg
HOW TO REGISTER FOR THE WORKSHOP
Registration to the Workshop is $40 for African scholars and $120 for other international attendees. Online registration is available here.
Thanks to the Pan-African Forum 2009 Sponsors | University Cheikh Anta Diop | Louisiana Board of Regents | LodeStar | NComputing | | Asylum Software||| Atlantic-Computing |
|eLearning Africa Conference 2009|

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