by Laura Henriques, David Andrews, and Jaime Arvizu

This is the fifth in a series of articles related to using on-line resources to support student learning. Each article highlights a different National Science Digital Library (NSDL) resource used in the Building Locally, Linking Globally project (NSF DUE  0735011).

MERLOT is the Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching. Highlighted in an earlier eCCS article, MERLOT (www.merlot.org)  is a free service. There are several things that MERLOT provides. The on-line library of peer reviewed teaching and learning materials (called “learning objects”) is searchable by grade, topic and type. The e-portfolio generator called Content Builder is a free, simple way to create professional portfolios and classroom based websites. Both of these features were highlighted in Jaime Arvizu and Sara Meadows’ article. The feature of MERLOT which we are highlighting in this article is MERLOT Voices.  (more…)

by Jaime Arvizu and Sara Meadows

MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching at www.merlot.org) is a cooperatively developed, free, web-based resource where teachers and their students can easily find a wealth of peer reviewed, digital learning materials and resources. Created by the California State University System in 1997, the MERLOT digital library collections contains literally thousands of learning objects across many disciplines, including over 5,000 high school resources alone.  With individual free membership approaching 50,000 and growing, MERLOT has become a dynamic online learning community where people around the globe contribute materials, evaluations, lesson plans/student learning assignments, personal collections, and peer reviews of online resources used in education.  Visit and join MERLOT at www.merlot.org. (more…)