MERLOT RESOURCES: COLLECTION CATEGORIES
MERLOT is an international cooperative of professional discipline communities that collects and makes freely available high-quality online resources to improve learning and teaching within higher education and K-12. MERLOT digital content repository includes over 18,000 free learning materials ( including: Simulation, Animation, Tutorial, Drill and Practice, Quiz/Test, Lecture/Presentation, Case Study, Collection, Reference Material, Online Courses, Workshop and Training Material) and supports materials from various disciplines that can be used to design online courses and e-learning programs. The infrastructure of the repository provides environments for adding annotations to those materials such as discipline communities peer reviews, assignments, comments and a ranking system which enables users to judge the quality and relevancy rating of resources for teaching and learning in their respective disciplines.
To insure quality, learning resources are peer reviewed by Editorial Board members from 15 different discipline communities. Each editorial board goes through a selection process and a rating system of their respective collections of e-learning resources. Evaluation criteria are used to determine the overall rating for a learning material in MERLOT.
MERLOT COLLECTION CATEGORIES
MERLOT resources are categorized into seven content domains that are further subdivided into sub diciplines. The links below targets the various categories of the MERLOT digital content repository.
(1) Arts
(2) Business
(3) Education
(4) Humanities
(5) Mathematics and Statistics
(6) Science and Technology
(7) Social Sciences
MERLOT COMMUNITY PORTALS
Each of the 15 MERLOT Editorial Board (discipline communities) has a separate web portal within MERLOT. The portal is customized around the Professional Community of Practice Needs. Community portals feature(1) Tips for Teachinging in the discipline using the e-learning resources of the discipline, (2) People, for how to join and learn more about the Community of Practice, (3) browse the learning materials of the Community, (4) Beyond MERLOT, offering relevant links to sites relevant to the Community and (5), Community showcases, with recent Award winners. You can access the discipline portals from here.
This e-learning resource is excellent based upon the following MERLOT criteria:
1. MERLOT
Classic: The item and the autor of the item received an Award during the MERLOT Conference.
2. The item was peer reviewed Editorial Board Members and given 5/5 stars.
3. Uers comments about the quality of the item are excellent averaging 5/5 stars.
4. 57 members bookmarrked the resource in their personal collections
5. Assignment are available to use along with the resource.