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A lot has changed since MIT first announced that it would be making its course materials freely available online. Back in 2001, the idea that university-level content could be accessed at no cost by users anywhere in the world was virtually unheard of, and the MIT OpenCourseWare initiative was a major driver in the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement. 
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The MERLOT Content Builder is a web page and website development tool that is integrated into MERLOT. It is directly accessible by registered and logged-in members from the MERLOT homepage or from a members profile page. Web pages are easily created using Content Builder's templates. These include a variety of designs including e-portfolio structures, lesson plans, pedagogical analysis, student reflection, online course, tutorial, presentation, community website, etc. You can view some of these examples on the MERLOT Effective Uses of the MERLOT Content Builder Tool web site (which was created by using Content Builder). For more information on MERLOT Authoring Strategies, go to http://taste.merlot.org/Programs_and_Projects/authoringstrategies.html. ... To begin using the Content Builder Go to the MERLOT the home page (www.merlot.org), and log in to MERLOT. If you are not a member of MERLOT, membership is free. Register at http://www.merlot.org/merlot/join.htmFrom the home page or your profile page, click on "Access the Content Builder." (See figures below). At the "Content Builder Toolkit " start creating webpages.Information on using the MERLOT Content Builder to create webpages can be found by, downloading the QuickStart Guide Via Heiko Idensen
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Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
On October 15, CSU-MERLOT will premiere the enhanced Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT II) website at the EDUCAUSE annual conference in Anaheim, Calif. One of the first peer-reviewed, open online libraries of higher education learning materials, MERLOT was developed by the California State University and is an open resource community that features more than 40,000 free online learning materials including open textbooks, open journals, animations, case studies, simulations, virtual labs and more for nearly every higher education discipline in an easily searchable open library. The CSU utilizes MERLOT to provide free access to high-quality online materials, a key part of the University’s initiative to use technology to improve student success while maintaining affordability.
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