Accelerating
Course Development
Through Collaboration
Accelerating Course Development
Through Collaboration
• Phil Moss
Director of Educational Partnerships & Planning
MERLOT
• Lisa Pirinelli-Dubuc
Teaching, Learning, and Technology Program
State University of New York
• Debra Runshe
Assistant Director
Center for Instruction, Research, and Technology
Indiana State University
Engaging and Emerging Faculty
Development Processes
MERLOT- System Wide Partner
Lisa Pirinelli-Dubuc
SUNY Teaching, Learning, and Technology Program
• 64 Campuses (serve over 427,000 students)
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University Centers (Doctoral Degree Granting)
University Colleges
Technology Colleges
Community Colleges
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over 100 online degree and certificate programs
4,300 online college courses offered annually
100,000 student enrollments from around the globe
2,000 world-class SUNY faculty
www.sln.suny.edu
System Wide Faculty Development
Initiatives and MERLOT
• SLN – New Faculty Development Training Program
• SUNY Teaching, Learning and Technology Cooperative
• Teacher Preparation Learning Commons - Undergraduate
teacher prep programs (NCCC Teacher Academy)
• National Center for Academic Transformation/SUNY –
Course Redesign Initiative
SLN Faculty Development
SLN Faculty Development
SLN Course Design Process
ANGEL LMS
SUNY Preferred LMS Platform
(30/64 campuses use ANGEL –supported by SLN)
TLT Cooperative
MERLOT workshops for faculty and faculty developers
o Online courses for faculty
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4 weeks
MERLOT for faculty developers
Teaching with MERLOT – for beginners
MERLOT for Searching, Sharing, and Scholarship
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Webinar Series(1 hour sessions)
■ What on earth is a learning object and introduction to MERLOT?
 Personal Collections Webinar:Stop Searching and Start Sharing
 Personalizing MERLOT
■ Getting Involved- MERLOT and the Scholarship of Teaching
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Annual CIT conference –Workshop
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Is your glass ½ full? Enhance your teaching with MERLOT
MERLOT Online Support –
tlt.suny.edu
SUNY TLT Website
SUNY TLT Resources
http://tlt.suny.edu/MERLOTForFacultyDevelopers.shtml
Teaching Commons
• Create a MERLOT institutional teaching commons for
teacher prep programs
• NCCC Teacher Academy- pilot campus
SUNY Course Redesign Initiative
The goal is to achieve improvements in learning outcomes as well
as reductions in instructional costs by redesigning large-enrollment,
multi-section courses using technology-supported active learning
strategies.
Grants Awarded ($40,000/three-year)
1. Buffalo State, Economics
2. Canton, Basic Communication
3. Canton, Biology
4. Erie, Developmental English
5. Fredonia, Spanish 101
6. Niagara, Statistics
7. Old Westbury, College Algebra
8. Oswego, College Algebra
9. Potsdam, History
10.Stony Brook, Physics
Accelerating Course Development
Through Collaboration
Accelerating Course Development
Through Collaboration
MERLOT- Institutional Partner
Debra Dunlap Runshe, Assistant Director
Center for Instruction, Research, & Technology
Accelerating Course Development
Through Collaboration
MERLOT and Indiana State University:
• Laptop Campus
• Course Redesign
• Online Learning
• Blackboard LMS
• New Faculty
Accelerating Course Development
Through Collaboration
Accelerating Course Development
Through Collaboration
MERLOT Institutional Initiatives
In consultation with MERLOT partners, affiliates,
and interested institutions, MERLOT has identified
the major academic technology initiatives that are
strategic priorities for higher education.
Accelerating Course Development
Through Collaboration
MERLOT Institutional Initiatives
Support institutions’ effective and efficient
development of quality plans, implementations,
and assessments through easy discovery of
exemplary practices and reference resources
Accelerating Course Development
Through Collaboration
MERLOT Institutional Initiatives
• Showcase authentic institutional case studies for using
MERLOT in advancing an initiative.
• Collect tools & processes that MERLOT partners can
adopt or adapt.
• Provide evidence that the MERLOT services are helping
deliver expected outcomes and value.
Accelerating Course Development
Through Collaboration
Institutional Initiatives
•Academic Transformation
•ICT Literacy
•Accreditation
•Institutional Repositories
•Better use of LMS
•Institutional Research on
Technology Use
•Developing Hybrid & Online
Courses
•K-20 Initiatives
•Developing Online Degree
Programs
•Laptop Initiatives
• Facilitating Graduation
•Textbook Affordability
Accelerating Course Development
Through Collaboration
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