About the Authors & Organizations

Rose A. Zimbardo, Ph. D. was an American writer and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Stony Brook University, New York. Rose was an intellectual giant who turned her energies into becoming a highly celebrated and dedicated teacher of an enormous and varied range of subjects -- from Shakespeare and ancient through modern drama to major historical shifts in human thinking.

MERLOT, www.merlot.org, is an international cooperative formed for the purpose of aggregating and making freely accessible high quality online resources to improve learning and teaching within higher education.  MERLOT’s organization and services are administered by the California State University, Long Beach and connect higher education systems, consortiums, and institutions, professional societies and organizations of academic disciplines, corporations, and individual members to form a community of people who strive to enrich the teaching and learning experiences with technologies.

MERLOT provides: 

• An open, online catalog of thousands of online learning materials.
• Quality assurance processes for the evaluating the learning materials
• Open community tools for its members to manage and personalize their use of MERLOT resources and services
• A directory of people with common interests in teaching and learning with online materials across a wide range of disciplines
• Technologies for customizing services for our partners
• Professional development services for our partners
• User-friendly authoring tools to create open educational resources
• Leadership opportunities for individuals and institutional to put educational innovations into practice

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Philip G. Zimbardo is an American psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. Known for his 1971 Stanford prison experiment, he is also the founder and president of the Heroic Imagination Project. From the core belief of each and every seemingly ordinary person on this planet is capable of committing heroic acts, the Heroic Imagination Project was born with a mission to use important findings in psychology to equip ordinary people of all ages with the knowledge, skills, and strategies necessary to choose wise and effective acts of heroism during challenging moments in their lives.

The Heroic Imagination Project

our mission

Inspired by the Heroic Imagination in each of us, HIP designs innovative strategies by combining psychological research, intervention education and social activism to create everyday heroes equipped to solve local and global problems.