Remixing And Revising OER To Customize Course Content For Your Students: ecoText+MERLOT=Easy Customization
Concurrent Session 4
Brief Abstract
Open Educational Resources need to be delivered within an engaging platform that enable faculty to remix and revise the educational content into blend coherently with the faculty’s goals, the students’ needs, and the institutional vision. The presentation will demonstrate how the ecoText platform and MERLOT’s OER can create customizable OER easily.
Presenters
Gerard L. Hanley Ph.D. is the Executive Director of MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching, www.merlot.org) and SkillsCommons (www.skillscommons.org) for the California State University, the Director for the Center for Usability for Design and Accessibility and Professor of Psychology at California State University, Long Beach. At MERLOT and SkillsCommons, he directs the development and sustainability of the international consortium and technology strategy to provide open educational services to improve teaching and learning and continues to development the US Department of Labor's open repository of educational resources for workforce development. Gerry's previous positions include Assistance Vice Chancellor for Academic Technology Services at the CSU Office of the Chancellor, the Director of Faculty Development and Director of Strategy Planning at CSU, Long Beach.
Extended Abstract