MERLOT Conference 2004
Costa Mesa, CA | August 3-6, 2004

Summaries of sessions attended by Laura Sederberg
Manager of the Technology and Learning Progarm
CSU, Chico

How to Evaluate Your Online Course

Pre-Conference Workshop

Laura Sederberg
CSU, Chico
and
Judith Norton
CVC

An interactive workshop, participants worked together to evaluate the quality of their own online courses, sharing observations through the eyes of the Rubric for Online Instruction, developing an action plan to improve their online courses.

www.csuchico.edu/celt/roi/

Towards a More Even Distribution of the Future: Insights from ARIADNE

Plenary Session

Erik Duval, Executive Director, ARIADNE

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Netherlands

ARIADNE is comparable to MERLOT in Europe. Its mission is to enable better quality learning through the development of learning objects, tools and methodologies that enable a "share and reuse" approach.

Standards allow for databases to talk to one another. Promotes "Federated Searches."

Content is King; Context is Queen.

www.ariadne-eu.org

www.ariadne-eu.org/en/system/

Solutions for Collaborative Teaching and Research

Sponsor Session

Breeze and Breeze Live support direct instruction. Record live class, then archive. Cross-platform. Can configure rooms (pods) any way. Multiple layouts.

Need Flash Player. "Train-the-Trainer" included in Macromedia product costs.

www.macromedia.com

Breeze Live on Demo CD

RoboDemo on Demo CD

ePortfolios in the Classroom

Concurrent Session

Grant Russell
University of Waterloo

Tracy Penny-Light
University of Waterloo

Keep Toolkit, Carnegie Foundation snapshot tool

Competency-based team work:

• Group contract
• Reflection on group assignments and peer evaluations
• Reflection based on entire team comentary by individuals

KEEP Toolkit Account Creation: www.cfkeep.org/html/index.php

ePortfolios in Education - It Just Makes e-Sense!

Concurrent Session

Program-level ePortfolios:

• Lifelong e-portfolio
• Course-level eportfolio
• Outcomes/elements
• Authentic assessments

www.foliolive.com
from McGraw Hill

Creating Electronic Portfolios to Advance your MERLOT Work

Workshop

Toru Iiyoshi
Paras Dagli
Gary Otake
Carnegie Foundation

Flora McMartin, MERLOT

Tracy Penny-Light, University of Waterloo

Hands-on workshop to use KEEP Toolkit to create e-portfolios. Min-snapshots. Templates can be created and shared for personal collections, reviews, learning objects, and e-portfolios.

Free and accessible from Carnegie Foundation.

KEEP Toolkit Account Creation: www.cfkeep.org/

Knowledge Media Lab and KEEP Toolkit:
www.carnegiefoundation.org/KML/KEEP/

Gallery of Teaching and Learning:
gallery.carnegiefoundation.org/

See handout, Quick Start Guide

Beginning the Third Decade: From Great Aspirations to Assessment and Accountability

Plenary Session

Kenneth C. Green
Founding Director
The Campus Computing Project

Definitive source for information about IT planning and policy issues affecting American colleges and universities.

Received Educause's Award for Leadership in Public Policy and Practice in 2003.

Regular columnist to Syllabus Magazine.

Misc

Joyce Bishop
Calibrated Peer Review
cpr.molsci.ucla.edu