About The Partnerships

Since 1997, The Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (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 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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INFLUENCING PARTNERS:  One of MERLOT’s partnership priorities is to engage with commercial academic technology enterprises early in their design process so that they create products and services that better align with the academic needs of faculty and students from the start.  By contributing the faculty voice of MERLOT’s community early, the investments in academic technology innovation should result in benefits for faculty and students, and not burdens.

 For the last 6 years, MERLOT has been collaborating with Partners-in-Publishing (PIP), a company whose mission is to provide technical assistance, market analyses, training services, and more for academic technology business, especially when new products and services are being developed and launched. In short, PIP is a conduit for MERLOT’s productive engagement with companies to produce more Affordable Learning Solutions. PIP recognizes that MERLOT’s leadership and faculty community is a source of expertise and experience that can provide the academic wisdom for effective innovations. MERLOT recognizes the PIP can be the partner who can invite MERLOT’s leadership and faculty community into early stages of the development of academic technology services by commercial and non-commercial organizations.

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