How MERLOT Can Be Used for Teaching on Furlough Day

From Teaching Tips #1, Teaching Resource Center, CSU San Bernadino

MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning & Online Teaching) is a collection of over 20,000 FREE and peer-reviewed online teaching and learning materials. MERLOT also offers a free and open community to share, advise, and evaluate online teaching and learning materials: http://www.merlot.org/

1. Define the type of student-content interaction you want to provide (e.g., students interacting with one or a combination of the following content types: presentations/lectures, more explanation, more practice exercises/assignment, additional practice tests/quizzes, more references, complete tutorial, etc.) on a particular learning objective.
Example: To provide additional explanation to students on how to read music by using an online tutorial.

2. Review/select a Merlot tutorial
For example: http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=85087
Description: Interactive tutorial for learning to read music
Title: Reading Music
Material Type: Tutorial
Technical Format: Flash

3. For feedback, have each student write one sentence on each of the following: (1) what I now understand better and (2) one thing that is still confusing, and have them bring this to the next class meeting. At next class meeting, collect these responses, and start class with a review, randomly selecting from feedback submitted. Submitted papers can be used for attendance. Then proceed with re-teaching (if necessary) or to new lesson.

Merlot Quick-Start
Go to: http://www.merlot.org
Click Learning Materials (under Exploring Merlot)
Choose from the following Material Types, or browse according to discipline:
Academic Support Services
Arts
Business
Education
Humanities
Mathematics and Statistics
Science and Technology
Social Sciences

Submitted by: Rowena Santiago, Teaching Resource Center, CSUSB