MERLOT's Fall 2005 Grapevine Newsletter (Issue #4) is available, it includes information about Discipline Community Portals under "Tips." The portals are intended to support discipline-specific strategies for teaching with MERLOT. I visited two of the portals (Psychology and Statistics) for subjects I've taught at undergraduate and graduate levels and found the information to be useful.
MERLOT continues to add features, such as MERLOT TWO (Teaching Well Online), to guide teachers in using the repository. I believe that MERLOT and other large instructional repositories will need to emphasize support resources for instructors at their sites because it is not sufficient to simply collect, organize, and archive learning objects. Instructors need assistance in finding, selecting, and integrating repository contents into their own teaching. Without that sustained support, repositories will not be used by the main audience that they are intended to serve. ______JH
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"Have you had a chance to visit your Discipline’s portal yet? Each Editorial Board of MERLOT (Biology, Business, Chemistry, Engineering, Health Sciences, History, Information Technology, Math, Music, Physics, Psychology, Statistics, Teacher Education, Teaching & Technology, and World Languages) now has its own portal within the MERLOT website. The purpose of the portal is to provide each discipline with space within MERLOT to communicate on issues and in the context most relevant for members of its discipline."
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