MERLOT AFRICA NETWORK (MAN)

Facilitate Communities of eLearning Expertise and Capacity Building for Open Education, Scholarship, and Development in Africa

MAN is a Networked partnerships between African and US educational institutions affiliated with the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) and leading Global eLearning Providers with development programs targeting Sub-Saharan Africa. Network members work in partnership to develop collaborative projects for Development and innovations in the best practices for using OER and OA as eLearning solutions. Partners meet twice annually, during the MAN Forum on OER and OA, organized as part of eLearning Africa, held in different Africa Countries each year, and the MERLOT Africa Panels, during the annual MERLOT International Conference.

The ultimate goal of MAN is to facilitate Communities of eLearning Expertise and Capacity Building for Open Education, Scholarship, and Development in Africa. The organization has the following five strategic Objectives:

Build strong networked partnerships between African, US educational institutions and global eLearning providers that will result in joint education, research and development programs in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Extend the MERLOT Community of Practice to immediately serve the goals of providing access and quality eLearning resources and communities of eLearning expertise in Africa.
Build African expertise in the successful use and development of Open Education Resources (OER) and Open Access (OA) to support scalable eLearning curricula and scholarship.
Conduct educational research to guide the effective and sustainable pedagogical integration of OER and OA in eLearning design and research.
Organize expert meetings for sharing best practices, and social networking to improve the productivity and leadership of collaborative projects among members.

MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) Organization

MERLOT (www.merlot.org) is an international cooperative of professional discipline communities of faculty, staff and students from around the world and industry partners who collaborate to collect and make freely available high-quality online resources and share pedagogy to improve learning and teaching within higher education. The functionalities of the MERLOT e-learning repository provides environments for adding annotations to learning resources such as discipline communities peer reviews, assignments, comments and a ranking system which enables users to judge the quality and relevancy rating of resources for teaching and learning. Qualified faculty members in the relevant discipline editorial boards contribute peer reviews of material. Peer review editorial boards in 15 fields including, science, mathematics, engineering, technology (SMET) disciplines as well as business, teacher education, world languages and faculty development are responsible for developing evaluation standards and conducting peer reviews of materials for that discipline and manning their own educational portals. MERLOT convenes the annual MERLOT International Conference where community members share best practices regarding instruction and pedagogy, authoring and developing online learning materials, learning communities, digital libraries, e-learning and standards. Integral to its education and outreach efforts are its annual workshops for faculty development professionals and librarians.

Join the MERLOT Africa Listserv

The MERLOT Africa Network mailing list has been set up to send announcements, share information and discuss topics related to communication, ICTs, open educational resources (OER) and open access to scholarly publications (OA), and the development of networked partnerships across the globe. These activities are all dedicated towards sustainable social and economic development on the continent of Africa |JOIN THE LIST| LEARN MORE|

Globe (Global Learning Object Brokerage Exchange)

GLOBE (www.globe-info.org/globe/go) is an alliance established among five international global repositories including MERLOT in the U.S, ARIADNE (Alliance of Remote Instructional Authoring and Distribution Networks of Europe) in Europe, Education Network Australia (EdNA Online) in Australia, LORNET in Canada and National Institute of Multimedia Education (NIME) in Japan. Federated community search is provided through the MERLOT repository that enables users to query GLOBE for educational resources that faculty can use to design learning experiences.

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MAN is an International Community that promotes US/Africa Networked Partnerships for Development.
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Joining MAN is Free! Joining the MAN institutional network is a two-step process including filling out a MAN application that concludes with the signing of a Memorandum of understanding between your oraganization and the MERLOT organization.

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MEETING DISCUSSIONS (MERLOT VOICES)

2009 MANeLA AWARDS FOR EXEMPLARY OER PRACTICES
eLA2009, DAKAR, SENEGAL, MAY 29, 2009

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MOUSTAPHA (MOUS) DIACK AND THE MERLOT ARICA NETWORK RECEIVE THE 2008 MERLOT INNOVATION AWARD
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MERLOT LAUNCHES A NEW PEDAGOGY PORTAL - MORE

MAN SIGNED A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WITH THE GLOBAL TEXTBOOK PROJECT - GTP.|

MAN SIGNED A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WITH Asylum/Markbook MARKBOOK |ENGLISH|FRENCH|

MAN COLLABORATION WITH BREDA/UNESCO DAKAR, SENEGAL - AUF (ASSOCIATION OF FRENCH UNIVERSITIES) AND AND NEW - |FRENCH|