Jan 22
The Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) is
- an international cooperative for high quality online resources to improve learning and teaching within higher education.
- free and open resource.
- connects
systems, consortiums, and institutions of higher education,
professional organizations of academic disciplines, and individual
members to form a community - Information is free to use for educational, non-commercial purposes
Resources in MERLOT
- links to thousands of learning materials
- sample assignments, which show how the materials could be used in the classroom
- evaluations of the learning materials by other individual users and panels of faculty
- links to people with common interests in a discipline and in teaching and learning
What MERLOT can do for you
- Avoid reinventing the wheel
- Find “good stuff” more quickly
- Search only education related materials
- Communicate with faculty teaching the same subjects
Helpful Resources
MERLOT Home Page: the main starting point for the project
MERLOT Tasting Room: download a PDF brochure, read the project history and learn more about how the system works