 Click on and I'm hopefully that's okay for everyone. We're recording this. No problems Okay Alright, um, and let me I'll start off with just an introduction of who I am and then I'll also have my colleague introduce my my name is Jerry Hanley I joke around now, you know, I'm a recovering administrator from the California State University system I'm a started out as a professor of psychology my area is called human factors and and then I Went on a road of ruin going into administration. I started in faculty development and then Technology came around right and said, how does that influence teaching and and this is going back. I've been in the Cal State system for I'm afraid to say 38 years so and then over time I Finally became the assistant vice chancellor for academic technology for the Cal State system 23 campuses and we have a lot of students who have about a half a million students and working with about 28,000 faculty members trying to make everyone happy In using technology in various ways. So And and during that process This is early on. This is like in the late 1990s. We recognized that as people were developing these technologies that No one knew where they were right and and when we think about our scholarship of faculty the libraries play a critical role in order for us to Find out what's going on in our discipline and what's how things are advancing and what are the new ideas and all this other stuff So so that's when in 1996 we started Creating a library of learning resources instructional materials and And we were up in Sonoma County. So we had a little fun with our title called Merlot multimedia educational resources for learning and online teaching and There's a story about how we came up with that But let's just I'll leave it at at a Japanese restaurant where we consumed a good amount of alcohol and we had some creativity going on there and But you know over the years It it moved from just a California Cal State University thing And then we just had invited a bunch of other institutions and now Merlot is a open library for everyone around the world to be able to use And what's important is not just what you take out, right? Like a library You can remove things out, but also as a community of educators. You can put your stuff in and Do the sharing and that's really how Merlot has sustained itself for all these years 25 years is really being a community where people are sharing What they're doing and they're teaching and learning with technology in various ways. So And then so with that we've been building that up and and then in in California Just a little context too about And I think thinking about your students, you know about half of our students are Pell eligible in the Cal State system Meaning their families can't afford to send them to college. That's fundamentally what that means, right? So and when textbooks You know increased in their cost Then you found, you know, an economic disadvantage for many of our students not having access to that. So So in 2010 we started something called the affordable learning solutions initiative And and that was kind of leveraging what we did in Merlot and helping faculty Look for alternatives and and one of the things I'll just say And and and working with Greg is just saying here We're not trying to take away choice of content for you We want to add options for you by looking at what these alternatives are, right And how you can look at what there might be no and low cost options That might suit your needs as a faculty member what you're trying to achieve with learning outcomes with alternatives. Okay, so so that that's I think just a point I really want to make is is that Merlot is a resource or alternatives And we have other things too as well to help you Find materials that suit the needs that you have as a instructor and for your students. So and and when when Greg was saying about, you know, you're Having your Program moving forward on your z-degree programs, you know, I just suggest you might be helpful just to get you started with saying How do I kind of lighten the burden for you finding all these alternative things? So so today I thought I would just demonstrate all the ins and outs of or how about the The the first phase of the ins and outs of using Merlot So so it becomes a little easier for you to find alternatives and help you understand how to do that today So so that's my goal and we do, you know, we just have a few people here, which is great I really prefer that better than you can ask specific questions. How do I get this? What do I do about that? And to address your questions there And and before I start doing that, I'll and do the screen share. I'll just pass it over Maria thief who's A member of our Merlot skills commons team here. So Maria Thanks, Jerry. I'm Maria thief and I'm a member of the skills commons Merlot team, but I'm also a member of your support team. And so I'm here just to Be a support system for you another layer of support for you. I've been in education for 33 Ish years somewhere in there and I come out of k-12, but I have been in higher ed for the probably the last I don't know 10 or 15 years of my career and I've done some teaching I have taught Um research courses and 17th century literature courses And that was all fun and good learning for me too as well as for everyone under me. So I'm feeling you and I'm glad you're here and we're we're happy to be helping to support this effort in Idaho while Jerry is Showing you some pretty cool things that you're going to be able to use Immediately, I'm going to be slipping some of those links into the chat So at the end of the meeting if you want to just download the chat, you'll have them all You don't have to take a lot of notes and worry about where you went and how to find that again We'll make it super easy for you. Okay All right So sound good. You're ready to have a docent tour of the Merlot vineyard How's that sound? Okay All right, let me just do a little share screen and and and as as Marie said skills commons just um as I'm pulling this up Merlot is focused on I'll say more the the academic areas Um and skills commons is focused on the um a workforce development areas. So if you're looking for um Manufacturing materials you're looking for health care. You're looking for construction and agriculture All that other stuff. We've got a lot of things there too as well. All right So um, so this is Merlot um, and uh, just to give you a little kind of Toward that if I don't mind how many people have played around With Merlot a little bit already Greg And and feel free to come on off the mic and just you know chime in um to as well Okay, so so as I talked a little bit already Merlot is a communities library and I mean that as a possessive that it's owned by people all around the world and and the cal state Long Beach campus is really the administrator of of the system And so I'll just run by here. We have something, you know, your your google search box and you know, that's pretty straightforward We have some advanced search things if you want to focus in on stuff And and I'll show you this ispn finder thing is if you have a textbook That you like you use you can type in the ispn For that book and then it will show you what are all the free and open materials related to that textbook Right, so that's another way. That's a pretty cool way of finding that So how much we got almost a hundred thousand materials in Merlot We have almost 200,000 members from around the world And representing over 4,000 institutions and and and in the last 30 days we've had 824 contributions so just to highlight the point that Merlot is a continuously growing collection of materials by people and And we have ways to find things if you just want to look at math or history or art stuff or Business, you know, whatever it is chemistry We have ways for you to kind of Tackle all those things and And and so this is just kind of the kind of the homepage just giving you a sense and and also if you want to create your own Open education resources. We actually have a tool called content builder. That's free and open for you to use and and my kind of bottom line is If you can create a word document, you can create a website with content builder because it's really simple And and they built it for me because i'm not the most skilled in technology i'm a user and And it's pretty easy and and and what we can do over time is beginning to show you a lot of how these tools work Okay So the first thing what what i'm going to do is just to start off with Getting a sense of how a how the library works. It ran up here on the top left corner. There's something called browse and and they're And what i'm going to do is just think about when you go into a library, right? You walk into the main doors and then you go into the stacks and you're kind of looking for books and things like that So you can in a sense browse all the materials That that's in merlot and and i'm doing that to help you kind of get an understanding of how the library is organized Right, so the first part is you have all these And let me just blow this up a little bit. So it's a little bigger Um, the older I get the bigger things need to be so I can see it How does that does that that work for folks a little easier? okay So on the left hand side, you can see all the disciplines so In the arts we have almost 4 000 business education humanities maths stats science technology Almost 50 000 in science and tech workforce development And and what you can do let's say you're in science and technology And and you click on that and then you see oh here are all the sub-disciplines in it so agriculture astronomy biology, right? You say oh i'm in chemistry So I I can click on that And uh and then see what's in chemistry So you can see it's like going to the floor and then you go down the aisle And then you start looking at the shelf space and okay, what is there and here's some inorganic So that's my freshman class. I may want to get started Right and then here's some other things. So now I'm I'm kind of focusing on My that's sub-discipline. So everyone get that so far how we kind of Navigate through with getting down to your kind of specialty area that that you'd like And then the next part I want to highlight is you can see how In in merlot. We also have different types of materials available for you, right? So You might say oh maybe I can how can I find a substitute for the textbook that I have so I can Click on oh, what are the open access textbooks? I can click on that And then it narrows down to chemistry Of just the inorganic open textbooks. So now we're down to 12 things And ken wiki And and it was it emily who's the chemistry person? Yes, yeah, okay, right. Okay. Um So so there's a lot of stuff, you know, like ken wiki has a lot of great stuff in chemistry free and open For you to use. Oh, here's a suni the state university of new york Um textbook initiative that has something in chemistry. You got open stacks, right? So here are so you have a chance to explore here are some free materials to look at and and I'll just go to to one. Let's say here. We have Ken wiki dynamics, right? So what one of the things you can do is you can say, oh, let me go see the material Or I can say before I go and check it out Maybe I can see what else is there, right? Let me get some more information about it and you say, oh Here's some here's a a description of it Oh There's reviews of this book too as well So an editor has reviewed it people have made comments about it because merlot is a living community of people and then Here's more information about it and and you can see over here um, so emily for example If you this has a creative commons license on it So that means that if you want to use any material in ken wiki All you have to do is you're welcome to use it and you just attribute it back to the authors of ken wiki NC means you non-commercial means you can't Take the book and sell it to people, right? And anything that you create you can also That's great. They want you to do that But what they're also saying when you create something new You would share alike. That's what the essay stands for and and greg if you ever want me to do a little mini lecture about Creative commons licensing there's a whole story that we can tell to help people about that But I'm just going to highlight here just around that the materials that you have in merlot So you if you say, oh, what can I do with these things, right? It'll tell you Kind of with the licensing what's possible here all right So so this gives you a little description The other thing that that we have in merlot that that helps out right It'll say Here are similar books Are similar resources That's it in chemistry We built a little kind of you can think of this like the amazon tool people who looked at this You know, the ken wiki also looked at these things, right? So It helps you see what are kind of popular out there And then this has other books that that are kind of related to it. So here are hopefully what the merlot library helps you do is Find materials that are targeted for your interests And also what are all the other related materials that other people might have used? Okay, so was that just a helpful overview of Uh kind of how the merlot library works it again. I gave you a real quickie And I know ken wiki quickie Description, but so was that helpful folks? Yes, thank you, jerry Okay All right other things too folks what you can do is Um, let's say you want to see what's the newest stuff Right, I can click on that and say What's the newest things and uh, okay? Here's some of the newest things. Uh now we got Libra text All right recently added a few years ago, right? Um, I can also just you know If I want to say well, maybe I want to look for not just um Materials that are are open textbooks. Maybe I want to look for something else Like simulations or animations or Things that could engage students in in online materials. So then I might want to look at oh, let me check out Simulate simulations here, right? So you can again think about the pedagogy That you want to have do I want a resource book? Or do I want to look for other activities that I can assign my students? um engaging some of these things so Again, I'm not going to go through all the details here, but The purpose of this orientation session is to just get you a sense of How how you can explore and find materials Aligned with your needs your content needs by going by discipline and also um going by I'll call it your pedagogical needs based on um your um But and and you can do that by looking at the type of materials Right here, but that that are available that that you can begin to narrow things down Do I want a case study or do I want drill and practice? They need to do something like that or um you're looking for some quizzes or Tutorials that might be really helpful or something along those lines. Okay So hopefully you can see the range of materials a full online course Maybe how how I want to structure that or online course modules. Okay All right, so I just want to make sure you I give you a sense of what's in the merlot collection And that you really have a lot of flexibility. I may want to you know, look at Um by titles alphabetic or in this case overall rating Because merlot for example has um a um We have editorial boards and I'll talk a little bit about that So and I'll just you know, click on this example. Here's an example of the virtual chemistry lab Merlot's editorial boards We evaluate the site. We give you a description of it recommended uses blah blah blah all these lines And then we say what about the quality of the content? Right say the apps are good. Here are some concerns How about it's effectiveness as a teaching tool? right And then how easy is it for both faculty? And students to use right because when you're trying to look at substitutes for Things that students are familiar with and you're familiar with A lot of times these peer reviews can be very helpful for you to identify materials that um are Will be I'll say more likely to be helpful and useful And easy to use right out of the box. All right, and again as I'm showing you here Here's things in the discipline similar. What if other people use And then here's comments Uh that people have made things along those lines And and the the next thing I'm going to show you here in any material One of the things that people can do in Merlot is They can create their own digital bookshelf in Merlot. So Right now if you notice um There's something called bookmark collections right here And this is another way that that the community within Merlot Creates resources For sharing right and and when in a sense when people create bookmark collections They um, it's telling you what they have found useful and you can think of these as Um citation indexes for teaching materials, right? So and I'm just scrolling down here and and you know, you have things all things interesting that Kim chim con decided to or Amy's personal book collection what she's put together Someone else has a chemistry labs, right? resources to help me get through right Chem lab content and and I'm just going to pick that one for example And so I can just look at this click on this Looks like it's an introduction to chem right and then I can say oh, who is martin Schengler And so martin is a professor And uh, and he's organized these materials. He's at lake land community college in ohio All right, and here's stuff that that he's put together and you can say well now that I see who martin is He was a professor um in uh, and he's put together a labs thing and now what he's done is Here are nine online materials that he's put together in his own Kind of bookshelf, right? And one of the things again, this is a way that you can how do you streamline finding things that other people have found useful? You might look at them. He said hey, this is pretty cool Rather than me going to find all these things again One of the things I can do is I can just if I you Look at this little icon here If I click on it, I can copy this book mark collection Into my own private personal And not private it'll share but uh on my own collection of materials So that's another way you can look at what other people have done And then if you could do that then you can go and edit it for yourself. All right, so that's something about When you become a merlot member You can create all these bookmark collections For sections of the course that you teach For different courses And you can share them across your faculty members and This url right here. That's at the top here That's of this collection You can pop that in your canvas And then the students can go right to this collection is oh I'm we have a lab in Uh, whatever it might be electroneg negativity type, you know experiments and here's some background around that All right And then you can pop that in canvas and the students can go to your collection there And they might say oh this is pretty helpful for my learning And they could become members in merlot and they could copy their own collections to as well so Merlot what i'm This next stage that i'm getting to in describing what merlot does It's not only a library for you to find things It's a library where other people have found and organized and curated materials And you can leverage all those work that they've done And now even your students Can take advantage of your collection of materials And then they can create their own learning resources as well And and what i'll show you is when you become a member of merlot you can see I'm logged in right now And everything that we've done so far you don't have to be a member you can just kind of browse and find stuff But when you want to create your own bookmark collections, that's when you you become a member And and i'll just show you here's an example. Here's my profile within merlot All right, and so here i am i have a description I could put my topics up my interest areas in What my affiliation is Members in my own institution. There's a lot of stuff here and we can go over that a little bit But you can see over here. I have I've created 85 little bookmark collections, whether it's software engineering Teaching english has a second language biology Right organic chemistry All right gender and ict literacy Right all these things history classes All so so you can then begin to create your own personal collection Of resources that you can share with your colleagues. You can share with your students and um and then Really simplify the curation process um That uh and make it easy not only for you to find stuff But for your students to find things too as well All right, so But let me stop there and just see If people have uh questions Before I go on to more things um That uh that that that we have in merlot All right any comments questions Anybody surprised as to how much stuff you have here and what you can do with it So jerry so far the only question is about um just signing up for the Membership you there are some things that you cannot do without a membership and jerry's going to talk about that But but you can go in and look around and see all of the the content that is already there There's just some benefits to creating an account Okay. Yes, emily you have question Yeah, I was wondering if there's a difference between maybe sharing this content instructor to instructor versus Instructor to student or if it's all the same It's all the same If you want to yeah, if you want to share just instructor to instructor Right a lot of times what you can do is you can create Um, you know, let's say within canvas Like you have a canvas commons capability where then you can do that instructor to instructor The whole purpose behind merlot is to enable every learner Everywhere to have access to these resources and whether you're teaching Or learning you have all those available there Okay Okay, thank you. All right um All right, so um What i'm gonna show you here you say i'll say you know merlot doesn't have anything everything so if You didn't find something that you like You can click on this other button here this tab that says other libraries And now what i'm going to show you here is Merlot searches About 80 other libraries. So if you can see on the left hand side All right, all these other libraries of free and open educational content That's available here Okay, so if you could say oh um I'm just gonna make something up, you know, uh, I want something You know, maybe I want to get someone to have an exciting talk So I might go to ted talks and say are there any chemistry ted talks Right And bingo here is science and technology lessons. Here's Here's here's some other things here right and you can look through things that are related to That's in the sciences technology and chemistry Chemists the chemistry of cookies by stephanie, right? okay, so I'm just giving you an example here about The wealth of information. I might say you know what maybe I want to look for the um the virtual labs so emily, you know Talking about the simulation. So let me just look at all the fet labs that are available Right, so then I can look at and these are just some wonderful things if you're not familiar with them And then here it then you can say oh, let me go to the material And here I am in all the simulations that I have And if I want to know about general chemistry, let me just Focus on those and then if I want to do something about diffusion I can click on this one And here are all these and here's a little video to to give you a sense of what that is gives you some Uh learning goals different topics that you can cover um teaching resources things along those lines and and just to give you a little sense Here's here's how the the um the uh Simulation works here. So and in my old days I used to be uh Uh chemistry wasn't my major so you can play around. Oh, I want to put some of these particles in You know, I want to change some of the The the aspects of the size I might I may want to change the mass and oh, maybe I'll put That number in there and I want to increase the temperature here All right, and then I can say what happens when I remove the divider right So this is the visualization that can be really helpful when you're trying to explain diffusion and What might happen in osmosis and things along those lines This stuff might might be helpful there. So is this helpful. Emily. I'm just I just pulled this up as an example here Yeah, those are great resources. Um, I use those currently and um having more of them available to me is very important yep You know and students can have fun with these things, you know, and it really can engage them in these various things So so so the first thing, you know, what we're getting to here is If you can't find it in merlot You can look at many other libraries here. Uh, you have mit's open courseware Internet iCov, you know, you need little videos on you got cod academy All right, so hopefully you can see we're low as a kind of a one-stop shop And finally the last thing I'll just show you here in Not only do we search all the other libraries, but we also search the web for educationally related materials um in and in this case we talked about chemistry And and I'll say if if you ever, you know, you you do a google search In some of your topic areas, I'll say if you're typed in chemistry Typically you wouldn't get environmental science and technology And this is probably from the american chemistry society Wouldn't be at the top of the list, right? And that's because what we did is we created Uh a google search application that really focuses on the types of materials That are most important to educators Okay So, um, you know as as you're getting started in moving from and You know, let's say and you had mentioned I think is Karen in art history You may not find something in merlot and here we can take a little peek here. Let's just go back for a second and we can And I'll just go through the browse process and go through the arts type of side of stuff So I can go through here And I might go into the arts And then I can look at Here are Art history there's 219 materials And so then here are the various things in art history And then again Karen, then you can decide what do I want to look for? um are there substitutes for those books And so here are art history books that are freely available and I might say Let me I'm just going to pick one. I have no idea Which one Would be useful. I could say go to the material Uh, yeah, if you get a smart history you'll be overwhelmed Okay All right, so so here's a wiki book in art history, right? All right, so so that's really what you know, hopefully from from the Just in the discovery side Looking for alternatives as you begin to explore how it can look at alternative content You can Browse through through these things And uh, and then of course if you want to do search, um, let's say I'll just do calculus and so again Here's what what here's calculus And notice you can see um That calculus is showing up. There's in art in business Obviously, it's mostly in math and stats, but you're seeing Calculus in its application and other disciplines too as well and then And then you can also pick maybe I just want to look for what are some of the I want to look at How courses are taught? Um, and maybe I can look at how other people are teaching calculus With um, you know calculus for life sciences and stuff like that. So then I can Just click on these and I can go to them, you know go right to the material and I can trend this looks like it was in chinese and I can translate it into quick to I guess they're testing stuff out now Let's say You come to something like this you say, ah, this isn't what I want or you say there's a broken link or something like that It doesn't work Because we have so many materials. It's really easy to do. You can say You know what? Here's a broken link You want to be notified if it's if it's fixed and if you know what it is we can Substitute it. You can send a report or you can say, you know what? That this is really inappropriate And the and the message goes to our webmaster who will then Examine it and decide to take it out or put it in or contact the author and find out what what we should do with it Okay And and that's kind of how the open community works is You know, not everything just so you know Not everything is what you want But what we try to do is provide you tools To help you find those materials That are most aligned with What you're looking for Okay, so Before I go on to other things of getting you oriented to merlot um, we just went through browse thing through the collection a little bit how you can find stuff and then some You looking at smart search looking at Searching merlot searching other libraries and searching the web Any any questions? Was this helpful? I think it's going to be really useful once I spend a little time with this. Thank you You're welcome, right? Yeah, and you know, it's um And if you need a glass of merlot on the side at the end of the day to enjoy it, you know, you can do that too. All right um Here and let me just show you how um to the isp and finder works, all right So so this is something um where you can And I'm just going to copy an isp n number here for you. Um So I can put that isp n number in it And so so what happens is It's telling you what the book is chemistry by julia birdage And then here are materials Related to that book And then you can say oh, you know what um related to that book I just want to look for animations to illustrate how chemical Things occur right and so here's some Some demos and stuff like that. All right, so so that's how the isp n finder works Now the the next thing i'm going to show you too is One of the things we have in merlot is we have about uh, I think it's uh two dozen editorial boards And these are faculty Um across the world who have their subject matter expertise in these topic areas and um, and they and they what they they also do is Um, they help us curate the collection of materials that we have here. So i'm kind of scrolling through um the different editorial boards that that we have and um You know, we talked about mathematics. I'll just pick that one since we we've covered this so So here if you just want to look at the math stuff, you don't want to see anything else What we have here is We have, you know, a little message from the editor and what they do is they often showcase some applications that they think are really good Um these portals also will help you say What's newly added into the merlot collection? Who are the new members that in who are in math? And then here's the math breakdown Of all the different uh subject areas uh that we have so So if you're in the math thing, you say, oh, I just want to do geometry or discrete math or i'm looking for um Pre-calculus math differential equations I could just click on differential equations and it pops up those type of materials. Okay, we try to give you shortcuts um to that and then we also Say what are some you may want to look at some of the professional organizations many times they have resources journals and then we have twitter feeds and google alerts Um that are related to your topic area. Okay, so so in these Over here academic discipline communities You can then you know if if you want to focus in on those You can see where we have stuff in Physics psychology stat teacher ed world languages, etc. All right So that's another thing about what we have in kind of academic disciplines And then we also have We call them academic support services And um and these are often topics that cross disciplines So uh, and let's just say for example, if you're you know, you're kind of rethinking the way you want to teach your classes Right We have this faculty development portal that goes through What are all the type of things that I I may want to look at What are all the different type of teaching strategies that that that I might I might want to think about And so I can click on teaching strategies and I say oh active learning experiential learning I'm just going down the side You know lecture strategies hybrid and online courses So so you can find Not only your content area But you can also find other materials That cross things ICT literacy skills mobile learning Um, and I'm going to show you one in a second the open educational practices But I just want to get to um other ones here Um If you're looking at in the STEM area We have a whole section on just virtual labs and you can pick biology chemistry physics engineering math health sciences and um again tools that that are available here And what I'm going to show you next to your and maybe I'll maybe I'll just pick one physics And uh, so not only do we highlight the FET ones and you can go explore those But we also have a number of the simulations in um in Merlot, and then we have other bc campus has some things we have So so we try to organize it to kind of lighten your load And try to find materials in your discipline All right Okay, so Again, was that helpful so far before I jump into something else Was very helpful. Thank you. Okay now In open education resources is about the materials that you use One of the things that we have in Merlot too as well is a whole separate portal on open educational practices So that is How do you teach things? and um and the way we capture that is with having faculty create E portfolios for them to tell their story about how they teach In different ways and those are free and open for you to explore too as well So and let's just begin with affordable learning again So these are e portfolios of faculty telling their stories about how do they use Open textbooks and and here's a sample and uh michael, what does he teach? Oh, he teaches american history. So i'll just so you can click on this You know blue button here and it opens up to a And this is the california open online library. And so this is michael's story about The book that he uses to teach american history. So that's on the left hand side Here's the course that he teaches itself What his objectives are blah blah blah a bunch of stuff here, right? and and you have You know that context for how he's teaching and he's even put up sample assignments of how he teaches and his syllabus Okay, and then you have on the final column is About the adoption process. Why did he do it? Things along those lines. So again, these are stories by faculty talking to other faculty about how they they teach And we have these organized by discipline. So if you're We haven't hit the humanities. I'll just hit the humanities. Um, so here's Let's say what do we have here? Um, congressional research. We have something about um, English Writing course a fiction writers workshop um We have another one including Uh, uh history and lives of avid american women Okay, course description, buddhism, hinduism, taoism, right? So here's a whole variety of US history stuff of faculty Telling their stories about how they move to open education resources and How do they do that to make that work? Okay, so we have All these different things and if you want stuff in science and technology, we got that that list of things We'll just click on that and so here's, um All all these things. All right so so that's In you know, how do I use free and open materials? Another area That's in this open educational practices on how do I teach? We also um, and this is when I was running stuff in the california state university system We had faculty look at what are the high failure rate courses and how can we redesign them To make them more successful And this is where what we had our faculty do is Tell their stories about how did they redesign courses to be more successful and Um, I'll just pick one kinesiology. I'm just Picking stuff out here, right? And and to give you an example. So here are stories by faculty members who are In this case they I guess they flip the classroom right where they have students do more reading outside a class and they're more In class or active learning activities All right, and again, I'll just pick one here Up access restricted. So they didn't want it available. Let's try this one here So here's their course redesign one. And so here's the story by jeffrey bernard And here's his story about the background of the class and how he redesigned it What they did you can review the syllabus Um, what were the improvements did students grade improve over time? So this is where faculty are giving you all this feedback about what they did And again, you can see a creative commons license at the bottom there All right, so I know I've covered a lot of materials in merlot, but I just wanted to give you You know a sense of when you're looking at the merlot website you have Browsing and searching you have communities That have helped organize materials um For these resources And uh, and there's other stuff here And and the last thing I'll highlight just in in and we can have another session about this just to point out skills commons that we talked about Is a free and open educational resource Related to workforce development. So if I want something about nursing I can click on this search and and Here are materials that are related to nursing And if you want transition to nursing practices And I think one of the things that's different about skills commons is that these are actual materials that you can download Put it in your canvas course and you can revise them and mix it and so here's a zip file at 16 megabytes of a whole course of transition from licensed practical nursing to becoming an associate's degrees registered nurses Okay, and they have a peer review report to say, you know, so they had subject matter experts actually review this And so here's their evaluation Of how they think this course material was all right So in skills commons again, we can have another whole session about how to do all that stuff But I just wanted in case you have materials or your topic areas is really in workforce development Skills commons has a lot of great stuff in there. All right, so I'm going to stop sharing and then we can Just talk about see if there are any questions that came up That I'm happy to answer In the last minutes before we call it a day I've got a jet out, but uh, thank you for the presentation. Um, I played on merlot a little bit but was just using it as a Bookfinder textbook finder and all the extra features are going to be really helpful As I look for older our material and try to develop a course so Appreciate it. You're you're you're welcome. Sean and just to know all of you If you have any questions as maria said, we're here to support you so We can jump on a zoom on a one-on-one tutorial to help you say what about this? What about that? No problem. That's what we're here to do to help you succeed Okay, thanks, Sean All right anything else um, so susan emily mike and karen We're able to get something was this a little helpful to make your life a little easier Yeah, I'm great with Sean. I I've looked at merlot at least for textbooks, but you walked me through a whole bunch of things It's good stuff. Thank you. You're welcome. You're welcome. Yeah Yeah, my motto is give a gift and not a burden Okay All right, so if we can help so and I joke around I told greg this I said think of us like a gift registry, right? What do you need and you can knock on our door and so karen if you're looking for art history stuff or whatever topic You know, we often know the collection, you know, we're like librarians, right? So we often know where we are. We could be your reference librarians in merlot and skills commons That's good to hear. I am a failed library science student Well, well as faculty we've all had to come become librarians with our desktops, right? Exactly and actually I've worked in libraries. That's how I got through grad school But I I've I've really the I've really gotten this better sense of the breadth of resources today. Thank you You're welcome. You're welcome Well, thank you for taking the time I hope you have a great summer and again if you have questions along the way You know, you can just email us Cc greg so he knows what's going on too as well and greg if you need us to do anything more you just let us know, right? All right. Thanks everyone. Yeah, thanks. Thanks, jerry You're welcome. All right. Bye. Bye