Carnegie Mellon University and Arizona State University Collaborating to Provide AFFORDABLE LEARNING SOLUTIONS!
Carnegie Mellon University and Arizona State University Collaborating to Provide AFFORDABLE LEARNING SOLUTIONS!
Welcome! The goal of this website is to provide you information about participating in a MERLOT-Affordable Learning Solutions (AL$) INNOVATION Project. This collection of innovative courseware has been developed by Carnegie Melon University and Arizona State University with funding from the federal and philanthropic agencies.
The MERLOT-Affordable Learning Solutions initiative invites you to participate in a project supporting ALL students in general education STEM courses with innovative and low-cost courseware that empowers excellent instruction by faculty.
Your Team
Gerry Hanley (MERLOT & SkillsCommons)
Karen Johnson (Partner in Publishing, Courseware Learning Consultant)
ABOUT THE INNOVATION PROJECT:
MERLOT collaborates with innovative partners to help them develop, evaluate, and share outcomes from adopting innovative technologies. Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Arizona State University (ASU) have partnered in the development of courseware that engages learns in the STEM content by presenting contempory and relevant applications of the STEM curriculum.
CMU and ASU have invited MERLOT to participate in the early stages of evaluating the courseware as they continously work to improve the courseware.
SIX COURSES ARE THE FIRST PHASE!
CMU and ASU are delivering the following courses for you to review, evaluate, and/or pilot test. Your expertise and feedback is required for the improvement of the courseware to achieve its student success goals.
- Beyond Bio flyer.pdf (a non-majors Biology course)
- HabWorld flyer.pdf (Astronomy and Astrobiology course)
- Living on the Edge flyer.pdf (Intro to Geology course)
- Intro to Statistics flyer.pdf (Serves 3 levels of Intro Stats )
- Intro to Psychology flyer.pdf
- Student Success Modules flyer.pdf (a variety of modules for student success courses)
Check Out the AL$ Courseware!
Getting Started - IT IS EASY!
Sign up and we'll follow-up!
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Karen Johnson will follow up with you and arrange a time for your 1:1 session or provide you further background about the upcoming webinars
If 3 or more faculty in your department would like to participate, we can schedule a custom webinar for you.
There are a few ways to participate in the MERLOT INNOVATION PROJECT:
- Participate in a 1:1 session with a AL$ Courseware staff member and provide your feedback about courseware after a brief demonstration. You would receive a $50 stipend for your participation in a 30 minute session.
- Participate in a webinar that demonstrates the features of the AL$ courseware and provide your feedback about the courseware. You would receive a $50 stipend for your participation in a 45 minute group session.
- After reviewing the AL$ courseware, if you’d like to adopt it for your course in the Summer 2025 or Fall 2025, you would receive a $1,000 stipend for teaching with the coursesware and, with CMU/ASU's support, evaluate the impact of the courseware on your students’ learning. You would be part of a “community of research practices” that is planning research projects, presentations, and publications.
- After reviewing the AL$ courseware, if you and at least 2 other faculty in your department would like to adopt it for your course in the Summer 2025 or Fall 2025, your department would receive $8,000 for teaching with the courseware and, with CMU/ASU's support, evaluate the impact of the courseware on your students’ learning.
You can participate in activities 1 or 2 first and then decide to do activities 3 or 4.
If you’d like to participate in any of these activities, please register your interests at:WWW.
- We’ll ask you to provide your name, email, & phone, how many sections of Intro Chem could use REAL Chem, and the total enrollment in these courses.
- Partner in Publishing is supporting CMU and ASU in their outreach, demonstrations, and feedback processes.
- Karen Johnson (karen@partnerinpublishing.com) is your dedicated Learning Consultant to respond to all your questions. In the demo, she will provide you with additional information around the scope of the project, courseware features and differentiators, and will welcome any feedback you may have.
Feel free to pass this along to your colleagues if you think others might be interested in exploring these technologies.
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