MERLOT - Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Teaching Online

Here is a search I did on MERLOT. I was looking for materials realted to online instructional design. I got a nice list (see below) from just the first 200 of 988 entries under Education/Faculty Development. Teacher Education would be another discipline to search on MERLOT. Most of these were active links although one required MERLOT membership (free) and one was a dead link. Most were academic sources and a few were commercial sites offering educational and instructional materials for free.

MERLOT – Multimedia Educational Resource for
Learning and Teaching Online

http://www.merlot.org/

Disciplines
Biology, Business, Chemistry, Education, Engineering, Faculty Development, Health sciences, Histroy, Information Technology, Mathematics, Music, Physics, Psychology, Statistics, Teacher Education, World Languages

Education (3405 entries)
Faculty Development (part of Education, 988 entries)

Examples of learning materials and resources in Faculty Development (from 1-200)

The Virtual Instructional Designer (VID)

Student Assessment of Learning Gains (SALG)

Rubric for Online Instruction

Interactive Instructional Designer

Building Online Learning Assignments with MERLOT

Learning Roles Online

Create and Evaluate Your Course

Online Collaborative Learning in Higher Education

Ideas for Distance Learning

Successful Online Teaching Using An Asynchronous Learner Discussion Forum

DEVELOPMENT OF ON-LINE LEARNING SYSTEMS

Writings on Web and Interaction Design

Impact of the Internet on Learning & Teaching

Developing on-line learning materials for higher education: An overview of current issues

Introduction to Instructional Design

Distance Learning Orientation

An Evaluation of Online Syllabi in The University of Tennessee College of Communications

Distance Education and Intellectual Property Issues

Principles of Online Design Checklist

Tips For Designing And Delivering An Online Course

IDEAS: Instructional Design for Elearning ApproacheS

Teaching/Learning Activities - What do you want to use technology for?

How to Create Your Own Podcast - A Step-by-Step Tutorial

Introduction to Online Teaching and Learning

Developing an Effective Online Course

Developing and Teaching an Online Course: A Faculty Handbook

How Interactive are YOUR Distance Courses? A Rubric for Assessing Interaction in Distance Learning

The Instructional Use of Learning Objects - Online Version

Intro to educational uses of blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, etc.

Handbook for Instructors on the Use of Electronic Discussion

Making Online Distance Learning Video Modules - Producer 2003

Why Do We Need Learning Objectives

Writing Objectives

Selecting Learner Activities: Type, Amount, Sequence

Nine Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning

Web-based Instructional Design Literature Review

Student Learning Outcomes: Recommended Reading

Problem-based Learning Clearinghouse

Asynchronous Learing Network

Instructional Design - Is It Any Different for CBT than for the Classroom?

Instructional Design for Technology-based Education

Writing Learning Objectives: Beginning With the End in Mind

Rick's Blog on Instructional Design

Here is a link to Rick's blog on instructional design, check it out:

http://idclass.blogspot.com

Internet Resources for Instructional Design

This list of Internet resources for instructional design are some I've used in designing my online classes. MERLOT is an interesting place to start.

TeleCampus and Distance Education Online Course Directory
http://courses.telecampus.edu/about/index.cfm?fuseaction=introduction
BAOL – Open Learning, Learning Tutor Support, Distance Learning
http://www.baol.co.uk/
BlackBoard Instructor Tips
http://idea.uwosh.edu/media_services/de/blackboard/tips/index.html
BlackBoard Resource Center
http://resources.blackboard.com/scholar/general/pages/ictraining/
Distance Education at a Glance
http://www.uidaho.edu/evo/distglan.html
Distance Education Clearinghouse
http://www.uwex.edu/disted/home.html
Distance Learning Course Evaluation Form
http://www.vw.vccs.edu/DLPoll/d_l_course_eval3.asp
Distance Learning Through Telematics – Learning Resources
http://www.fae.plym.ac.uk/tele/tele.html
Education with New Technologies Networked Learning Community
http://learnweb.harvard.edu/ent/home/index.cfm
E-Learning Central
http://elearningcentral.org.uk/
Fathom – The Source for Online Learning
http://www.fathom.com/
Free Clip Art and Graphics Websites
http://online.sfsu.edu/faculty/clipart.htm
Guide to Fair Use
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~tep/technology/fairuse.html
HORIZON – Online Journals, Resources, and Tools
http://horizon.unc.edu/onramp/default.asp?type=tech
Oxford Teaching and Learning
http://www.ox.ac.uk/it/groups/oxtalent/learning&teaching.htm
ICDL – International Centre for Distance Learning, Databases
http://www-icdl.open.ac.uk/
IHETS – Distance Learning Resources
http://www.ihets.org/learntech/distance_ed/resources/index.html#distedres
Image-Multimedia Database Resources
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Imaging/Databases/#strawberry
Journal of Asynchronous Learning
http://www.aln.org/alnweb/journal/jaln.htm
List of Virtual Universities
http://www.ped.gu.se/ulric/vus.html
LTDI Online Resources
http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/ltdi/res-link.htm
MERLOT – Multimedia Ed. Resource for Learning & Online Teaching
http://www.merlot.org/Home.po
MIT Open Course Ware
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
Online Education Bookmarks
http://sunil.umd.edu/documents/edonline.htm
Online Journals
http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/ejournals.html
Online Sources for Images
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Imaging/Databases/image_sources.html
Open and Distance Learning Journals
http://www.irrodl.org/journals.html
Open Directory – Educational & Instructional Technologies Resources
http://dmoz.org/Reference/Education/Instructional_Technology/Higher_Education/Course_Website_Software/
QAA Distance Learning Guidelines
http://www.qaa.ac.uk/public/dlg/guidelin.htm#Guideline%206
Quiz Builder
http://ils.unc.edu/balus/oit/quizv2/quizftp/
Resources for Online Classes
http://www.aea2.k12.ia.us/curriculum/resources.html
Resources – Higher Education Links
http://spot.colorado.edu/~dubin/bookmarks/b/920.html
TeleEducation Online Resources
http://teleeducation.nb.ca/english/
The Global Campus – Learning and Teaching Resources
http://www.csulb.edu/~gcampus/
The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning
http://www.irrodl.org/
UK Higher Education Resources
http://enterprise.unitecnology.ac.nz/learn/staffresources.html
Web-Based Course Creation
http://www.andrews.edu/~jimjeff/onlineguide/onlineworkshop.htm
World Lecture Hall
http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/
WWW Virtual Library
http://vlib.org/Overview.html
Over 500,000 online educational resources NASA
http://www.nasa.gov/

The Roots of Instructional Design

We were asked in a discussion in my Foundations of Instructional Design class about the "roots" of instructional design. This was what I posted after reading Shrock's (1995) A Brief History of Instructional Development.

Shrock surveys the roots of ID from the 1920s through the 1980s by decade. Each period contributed to forming part of the root system of what ID is today. Before the 1920s the ground was prepared through the emperical knowledge and approach of science, now applied to teaching and learning. The 1920s saw a confluence of ideas, an overlap in concepts and procedures, and a scaffolding of major parts in the process. Task analysis was introduced as was the need for careful design. The 1930s was notable for refining procedures for writing instructional objectives and for formative evaluation. The 1940s saw technology come of age. Innovation, media, and instructional technology arose as did the designers, SMEs, and producers. The 1950s formalized task analysis, programmed instruction, and provided a taxonomy of educational objectives. The 1960s gave us instructional systems development and with it concern for the conditions of learning and instructional delivery. In the 1970s ID was, and continues to be, influenced by the insights of cognitive psychology. New learning theories arose in response to new research and the new technologies adapted with them. And finally, the 1980s brought ID instructional applications from the adoption of microcomputers.

Online Instructional Design