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Welcome! The MERLOT Scholarship in the Online Teaching Commons project will develop scholarly processes to support the exchange, re-use and adaptation of teaching expertise linked to exemplary learning resources in online repositories. Our aims are twofold: § to enhance the use of these repositories by augmenting the pedagogical content knowledge and activities associated with these learning resources, and § to align faculty activities and contributions involving online repositories with scholarly practices, recognition and rewards within their disciplines and institutions. Initially, we will be engaging faculty from our four partner systems and campuses in scholarly processes with the MERLOT online repository. In parallel, we are working with other repositories to integrate scholarly resources in a broader and richer online teaching commons. A key aspect of this project is the opportunity to create an accessible and effective gateway into scholarly work in teaching and learning, as a result of growing faculty use of shared resources through learning management systems. For example, over 150 higher education institutions have built a link to MERLOT into their institutional learning management system. We plan to use such links in the future as gateways for mobilizing research knowledge from scholarly work in teaching and learning – as faculty search for teaching resources to achieve learning outcomes and student success, they will also encounter expertise from a community of like-minded colleagues who are building a research-informed community of practice. The awareness of these resources, and the conceptual framework to apply them, will be introduced in exemplary teaching development programs for early career faculty through the related MERLOT ELIXR project. |
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