5th Annual MERLOT International Conference
http://conference.merlot.org/conference/2005/
Welcome to the 5th Annual
MERLOT International Conference
Hosted by the Tennessee Board of Regents
July 25 – 28, 2005
Nashville Convention Center
Nashville, Tennessee
“Engaging the Global Community – Looking Over the Horizon”
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2005 MERLOT International Conference
Welcome
Please join us for the 5th annual MERLOT Conference as we celebrate our accomplishments in creating and bringing together our global community of educators dedicated to opening the best of the world of online teaching and learning resources to higher education. The Tennessee Board of Regents will host this year’s conference. Tennessee is the land of many innovations; it is here that Sequoyah devised the Cherokee alphabet in 1809. That innovative alphabet led to the literacy of the Cherokee Nation, expanding its world. This year, we too, will expand to new worlds. Our theme focuses on looking beyond today’s horizon to the future of MERLOT and its partners as we explore online resources for higher education, implement new mechanisms for bringing the community to resources and innovative ways of using them, and engage faculty, administrators and students in their use.
The MERLOT International Conference is unique in that its program and participants bring together (and reflect) the broad spectrum of higher education, from members of community colleges to research universities; we span the disciplines, and link together the variety of campus members who focus on teaching and learning with technology, e.g., faculty, students and administrators.
Our goal is to engage you in preparing for what lies beyond the horizon with the globalization of digital teaching and learning through pre-conference workshops, concurrent sessions, round tables, hands-on workshops, panel sessions in addition to our thought-provoking keynote addresses by world renowned leaders in higher education and technology.
Who should attend?
We welcome all members of the higher education community, researchers, faculty, practitioners, administrators, and students to attend and participate in the conference. Though we all have different roles, we share common concerns about the use of digital learning materials in the service to teaching and learning. We encourage faculty, faculty developers, librarians, instructional technology professionals, researchers, and Provosts, Deans, etc., in all disciplines to participate as presenters and attendees.
About the conference
The MERLOT International Conference is an annual meeting of the MERLOT community of partners (campus, state-wide, professional societies, other digital libraries, and industry) where we celebrate and share innovative practices that work for encouraging, engaging and sustaining campus members in teaching and learning with online resources. Conference attendees span the continuum from novice to expert in the development and use of online resources. In 2004 over 425 attendees participated in over 80 sessions.
The program has something for everyone and focuses on five tracks: Instructional Practices, Creating Learning Materials, Promoting Collaborations and Communities, Faculty Development, and Digital Libraries, Technology and Standards