The CSU Affordable Learning Solutions and

MERLOT IIJuly 30, 2014

MN eLearning Summit

Leslie Kennedy, Ed.D.Academic Technology Services

California State University System Office

Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching

www.merlot.org

MERLOT’s VISION

To be a premier online community of faculty staff

and student users, members, and consortium

partners from around the world who share their

pedagogy and repository-based learning objects,

open courses, open access textbooks, and open

access journal articles.

MERLOT is Unique• An open educational resource (OER) collection with

over 45, 000 teaching and learning materials

• Over 3,000 open textbooks

• Many peer-reviewed materials

• Multiple disciplines represented

• K-12 and Higher Ed resources

• International

Improved Search

Many Search Options• Key words• Discipline

– (ex. arts, ed., math, science)• Material type

– (ex. open bks, simulations, • Audience

– (ex. K-12, college)• Mobile apps

Search Other Open Libraries

MERLOT Content Features

• Peer Reviews

• User Rating

• Discussion

• Learning Exercises

• Personal Collections/Bookmarks

• Material Type

Bookmarking MERLOT Resources• Collect multiple resources in a Personal Collection• Link to the Personal Collection from the LMS

Journal of Online Learning and Teaching(JOLT)

• A peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication that aims to promote scholarship in the use of the Internet and web-based multimedia resources in higher education.

• Published 3-4 times a year.

http://jolt.merlot.org/

Integrate MERLOT into the LMS

For easy access to search and link to the MERLOT collection

MERLOT X

http://www.merlotx.org

Student-friendly access to MERLOT resources

maMERLOT

FIND Mobile Apps for Your Teaching and Learning•Platform (iOS-Apple, Android, Windows)•Grade level (primary, middle school, high school, higher ed lower division, higher ed upper division•Discipline (arts, business, education, humanities, math/statistics, science and technology, social sciences, workforce development)

http://mobileapps.merlot.org

MERLOT Mobile Search App MERLOT OER Search app for iOS and Android devices.

Locate materials on the go. Search all of MERLOT or a narrow search of Open options – Journals,

textbooks or Courses.

Expanding the No and Low Cost Course Materials Network

16

California State University•23 campuses •~ 450,000 students •~ 80% undergraduates

AL$ Ecosystem

Librarians Can Assist Faculty & Students

http://als.csuprojects.org/(Ann Agee & Christina Mune, SJSU, 2014)

Instructional Designers Can Assist FacultyWMST 303: Education, Race and

Gender, Dr. Natalie Wilson

• Reconstructing Gender $90.26• Troubling Education $49.95• Teaching to Transgress $21.36• Total: $161.50

CALMED course • Breaking Bad Habits of Race and

Gender 24.95• Pearson Custom Book 24.65• OER videos, websites, and

organizational publications (eg FMF’s report on gender equity and education)

• Library Materials including Course Reserves, journal articles, and Media Library Holdings

• Total: $49.60Savings: $111.90 (x40 students = $4,467)

2/21/2014 Instructional Development Services - CSUSM 20

http://als.csuprojects.org/(Barbara Taylor, CSU San Marcos, 2014)

LMS Administrators Can Assist Faculty

• Integrate xPorter (library databases)• Integrate MERLOT (free resources)• Integrate open textbooks• Integrate publisher materials (ALEKS, WebAssign, etc.)

http://als.csuprojects.org/

http://als.csuprojects.org/

• Fall 2012• 5,000 Titles Choices• 4 Partners• Est. $1.5 M savings

• Spring 2014• 50,000 Title Choices• 7 Partners, 3 Affiliates• Over $2.5 M savings and counting

Bookstores Can Assist Faculty & StudentsCA State University Rent Digital Program

OER Finder Widget

Type in ISBN of

your chosen

textbook and find related

OER

http://als.csuprojects.org/free-etextbooks

Additional Institutional Initiatives

COERC & COOL4Ed

http://coolfored.org or http://cool4ed.org

The California Open Education Resources Council (COERC), a collaboration among UC, CSU and CCC faculty, is facilitating the peer review of open textbooks which are showcased in the California Open Source Digital Library (COOL4Ed).

COOL Course Showcase

http://coolfored.org

The COOL4Ed Course Showcase will be continually updated during the duration of this project (2014 – 2016), and it will eventually reflect approximately 50 courses and a number of peer reviewed open textbooks for each course.

COOL Faculty Showcases

http://coolfored.org or http://cool4ed.org

Course Redesign with Technology

http://courseredesign.csuprojects.org/wp/

Faculty Sharing their Course Redesign Experiences

Including their student successes.http://courseredesign.csuprojects.org/wp/

AL$ Next Steps Grow exemplary practices faculty showcases

Focus on mobile and work with students

Aggregate digital offerings and savings

Explore adaptive learning options and possible discounts

Continue to develop a collection of open education materials

AL$

Affordable Learning Solutions (AL$)

http://als.csuprojects.org/

For questions and assistance contact:Leslie KennedyDirector, AL$

California State University, Office of the Chancellorlkennedy@calstate.edu

(562) 951-4605