Weekly Teaching Tip: Merlot.org
By: Barbara Millis
November 8th, 2007
Merlot.org is an online resource for faculty that contains over 17,000 peer-reviewed, digital teaching and learning modules covering a wide variety of subjects. Membership is free! A search on any specific discipline provided results in the following areas:
- Peer-reviewed online learning materials
- A search for colleagues in your discipline
- The ability to view personal collections of peers in your field
- Prepared assignments that can be used with your students
- A Virtual Speakers Bureau to find online guest experts in your discipline
A quick search of Mathematics and Statistics yielded 1,454 results with learning modules such as: Graph Theory Lessons, Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics, Sir Isaac Newton, Famous Curves (Math), The Math Forum – Internet Mathematics Library, Interactive Mathematics – Probability, and 146 pages of other math and statistics modules.
If you would like more information about Merlot, there is a workshop being offered on Tuesday, November 13 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. in the small computer lab in Getchell Library. Space is limited, so please call 784-6591 to register!
Source: MERLOT.org, Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching, 2007
For more information on our programs and services, visit our website: http://teaching.unr.edu/etp/
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