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Week 5, Post 2: Tools Exploration

 In my exploration of tools this week, I got to learn about a few new ones that I have never used or heard of. the most interesting one to me this week was MERLOT, which is a collection of online learning resources. A tool like this should have been more common and shared in general but this is my very first time learning about this. I did some searches to find out what ways this tool could be benefecial for learning uses. I ended up browsing a few article and found one that was related to the effective use of MERLOT. 

Link: https://contentbuilder.merlot.org/toolkit/html/stitch.php?s=65391682894334

The link above is a brief overview of how different types of users can utilize MERLOT for content-building purposes.  For the student aspect, I learned about creating e-learning portfolios to showcase learning and how one can organize their content to be used by others. 

I did some research into instructional design on Merlot and noticed there were many links leading to resources on ID. I bookmarked one of the sites I was led to because I can see how useful it will be in learning about the current trends in ID. I found several resources with information on emerging topics as well such as AI and though it would be helpful to me in the near future. 

In case anyone wants to check it out, heres the link: https://library.educause.edu/topics/teaching-and-learning/instructional-design.


If you stopped by, please feel free to share with me any helpful instructional design online resource you have added to your toolkit. 

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  1. Lotta S. KaosJune 15, 2024 at 5:07 AM

    Hey Kenia, great post! I am also taking 5250 this semester all about open learning and educational resources. It is quite eye opening! Merlot is a great site. There are actually quite a few different open repositories out there. In fact, the university has an OER on and OER! https://sites.google.com/view/oer-on-oer/home

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  2. WilliamJune 15, 2024 at 8:25 PM

    Awesome post, Kenia! Thanks so much for sharing that link to the Educause resources on instructional design! And thanks, too, to Lotta for sharing the link to the OER on OER--that's not only useful but also very meta!

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