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MERLOT Gives CCC Distinguished Partner Award
Last Updated on Thursday, 12 August 2010 Written by Jen Gednalske Friday, 07 May 2010
In April, California Community Colleges (CCC) Chancellor Jack Scott received a letter from MERLOT lauding the CCC with a MERLOT Distinguished Partner Award.
The CCC received the MERLOT Distinguished Partner Award “for significant contributions and support to academic technologies and educational leadership.”
The Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) celebrated its tenth year as an international consortium in 2009. MERLOT is comprised of colleges, universities, digital libraries, professional societies, corporations and individual members dedicated to the effective use of academic technologies.
Dr. Gerald L. Hanley, director of MERLOT, stated,” California Community Colleges’ ten year history with MERLOT and its impressive projects and successes in using technology effectively, including its California Virtual Campus (CVC), is indeed an outstanding record. The California Community Colleges has supported and provided exemplary and award-winning work by some of your faculty and staff who have become leaders in our effort. We are fully aware that MERLOT’s accomplishments are the result of the contributions, participation and leadership from its membership and partners.”
Members of the CVC team that Hanley specifically mentioned are:
- Doug Cremer, executive director of the CCC Technology Center and the CVC.
- Dr. Vicki Suter, current director of the CVC.
- John Whitmer, former interim director of the CVC.
- Raquel Rios, project manager for the CCC Technology Center and the CVC.
He also mentioned the MERLOT Editorial Board members who are CCC faculty. These members include:
- David Megill, Associate Faculty in Music, MiraCosta College; Editor, MERLOT Music Editorial Board.
- Michelle Pilati, Associate Professor in Psychology, Rio Hondo Community College; Editor, MERLOT Psychology Editorial Board, and Editor, MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching.
- Larry Green, Instructor of Mathematics, Lake Tahoe Community College; MERLOT Mathematics Editorial Board member.
- Don Megill, Associate Faculty in Music, MiraCosta College; MERLOT Music Editorial Board Peer Reviewer.
- Janet Megill, Collection Development Librarian, MiraCosta College; MERLOT Library and Information Sciences Editorial Board Peer Reviewer.
- Ian Walton, Instructor of Mathematics, Mission College; MERLOT Mathematics Editorial Board Peer Reviewer.
“Your system’s involvement and the contributions made by your faculty and staff help keep MERLOT growing and improving in its services and resources,” Hanley wrote. ”While the California State University System continues as the sustaining partner organization for MERLOT, the involvement of our partners—higher education systems, campuses and other organizations—has been a key component in helping to ensure that MERLOT continues to serve the teaching and learning needs of faculty and students.”
MERLOT has a collection of more than 22,000 learning materials, and an approximately 80,000 member community. No other academic digital, open-source resource repository has the diversity in disciplines and institutional types, from community colleges to research universities, represented. <>
To learn more about MERLOT, please visit their website: http://www.merlot.org/
Jen Gednalske is a writer and editor for TechEDge
and a project manager for the California Virtual Campus and CCC Technology Center.