Faculty Development Community Portal
Welcome – From the Editor
Welcome to the MERLOT Faculty Development Portal, featuring educational resources for teaching and learning in higher education, both in face-to-face and online environments. You are invited to join MERLOT—it's free—and participate in this growing community of professionals. Our faculty development collection contains materials covering teaching strategies, teaching challenges, instructional design, learners, and learning and assessment
Learn more about us below! Thanks for dropping by.
Florence Williams
Editor, MERLOT Faculty Development Board
florence.williams@ucf.edu
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The MERLOT Faculty Development Portal is designed to help you learn about the variety of instructional strategies and issues that could help you become a better teacher. The resources you’ll find in the Pedagogy Portal should apply to teaching a variety of disciplines. This collection of resources should help you answer questions that teachers ask:
- How do I teach large lecture classes effectively?
- How do I engage my students in problem-based learning?
- Do I have to teach adult learners differently than recent high school graduates?
New Materials
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Tutor Handbook
The Tutor Handbook guides readers through the foundational skills and theory needed to be an effective peer tutor....
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Teaching the Student of the Future
How do we as faculty meet and exceed the needs and desires of “The Student of the Future”? It starts with engagement! In...
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Cultural Competency: Preparing the Leaders of Tomorrow Through the Lens of Leadership Theory
Cultural competence is an essential requirement of administrators, curriculum developers, faculty, and students … After...
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Raising the Bar: Grade Inflation in the Online Classroom
In this presentation, faculty and administrators will be presented with ethical ramifications of grade inflation, social...
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Image Sources
This is a collection of image collections that can be used in designing courses. There is a wide variety of disciplines,...
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Cultivating and Increasing Belonging for Learners
Studies show that belonging impacts several student outcomes, including increased engagement; academic performance...
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Time for Class 2023: Bridging Student and Faculty Perspectives on Digital Learning
Digital learning has become a prominent feature of modern education, with the potential to provide personalized...
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Listening to Learners 2023: Increasing Belonging in and out of the Classroom
Tyton Partners’ 2023 Listening to Learners research publication focuses on how institutions can ensure students’ success...
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Framework for Program Evaluation - CDC
Effective program evaluation is a systematic way to improve and account for public health actions by involving procedures...
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Developing and Using a Logic Model
The Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention (HDSP) Program Evaluation Guides are a series of evaluation technical assistance...
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5 tips to write stronger specific aims for your NIH R01 grant
I'm sharing my best tips to write stronger specific aims for your next NIH grant. Ever wonder about the difference...
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How to prepare for NIH grant writing in 2023
Do you have a grant writing plan for the new year? I'm walking you through some of the key things you'll need to think...
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Draft Specific Aims
After you decide the area of research to pursue, start thinking about your planned experiments by drafting objectives,...
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Introduction to the Specific Aims Page of a Grant Proposal
Grant writing starts with crafting an effective Specific Aims page. This page should be a succinct combination of sales...
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Online Instruction Resources for AUN TEPL
The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) has a project titled ASEAN Univerity Network- Technology Enhanced...
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IDEAS Framework for Teaching Online
The IDEAS (Inclusion, Design, Engagement, Evaluation, Assessment, and Support) Framework for online teaching and learning...
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How to Use ChatGPT to Create Engaging Learning Experiences
During our conversation, Jason shares many creative and innovative ways to harness the power of ChatGPT so you can engage...
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Chalk Radio
Chalk Radio is an MIT OpenCourseWare podcast about inspired teaching at MIT. We take you behind the scenes of some of the...
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Formative Assessments for Online Learning
There are three types of assessments. A diagnostic assessment comes before learning, is ungraded, and measures prior...
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9 Tips for Success as an Instructional Designer
While the explosive growth during 2020 should come as no surprise, the truth is that demand for online education has been...
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Engaging Students Through Experiential Learning Inside the Classroom
Experiential learning in its many forms is widely recognized as a high-impact educational practice, one that has been...
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Microlectures 101: What, Why, & How?
Traditional instructional videos are often long, address a variety of content, or lack meaningful opportunities for...
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Advocating for Adjuncts
Advocacy for Adjuncts is essential for the well-being of the whole institution. Listen in as Teresa Focarile of Boise...
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Using Case Studies to Develop Questioning Skills
Case studies have long been heralded as an impactful and critical pedagogical approach in college classrooms. Depending...
New Members
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Alexandra SalasDelMarVa Digital Learning Association
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Jamie NelsonTennessee Board of Regents
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Ziad AkirUniversity of Delaware
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Irene LubbeCEU
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Celia CoochwytewaArizona State University
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Urszula LechtenbergUniversity of Pittsburgh
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Daniel McHughHolland College
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Susana RestrepoUNIVERSIDAD DEL MAGDALENA
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himani singhhimanis123
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Muhammad Sameer AsifBABA GURU NANAK UNIVERSITY, Nankana Sahib
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Amie RunkEDUCAUSE
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Reliance mallstty5
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Ronnie RobertsUniversity of The Southern Caribbean
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Fay RosemanWest Coast University
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Sophia MarshallGeorge Mason University
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Maria AceitunoNorth Orange County Community/Technical College District
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Shayne TrainUniversity of Toronto
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Autumn RichardsonHeritage Christian University
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Jason McGensyCalifornia State University, Fresno
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Sasha WhiteUniversity College of the North
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Jonathan EastmanColumbia College of Missouri
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Shanna HollichGuthrie Memorial Library
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Cathleen CuppettCoker College
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Deborah PfeiferNorth Central Kansas Technical College
Materials by Discipline
- Assessment (150)
- Course and Instruction Design (290)
- Creating or Using Digital Media (269)
- Intellectual Property (22)
- Learners and Learning (158)
- Policies (54)
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (192)
- Selecting and Using Tools (1225)
- Support and Training (188)
- Teaching Challenges (66)
- Teaching Strategies (409)
Faculty Dev on the Web
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Milwaukee County local teens empowered after Denim Day workshop - TMJ4
Apr 26, 2024 03:12 PM PDT
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PI+ or PI-? A student-centered evaluation of District 203's Project Idea Plus program - Central Times
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SoTL Commons Conference | Georgia Southern University
Apr 26, 2024 09:00 AM PDT
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New Providence Board of Education announces appointment of new Superintendent of Schools
Apr 26, 2024 08:15 AM PDT
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Morning Buzz: April 26 - FOX 17
Apr 26, 2024 08:12 AM PDT
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News from IU Online: Issues: Newsletter
Apr 26, 2024 05:11 AM PDT
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Configure Simple Syllabus In Canvas - Montclair State University
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