2.3.6 MERLOT 

Lead MERLOT 

Consortium 

Origin U.S.A 

Background 

Since 1997, the California State University Center for Distributed Learning (CSU CDL at www.cdl.edu) has 

developed and provided free access to MERLOT. The project came about from a NSF funded project, 

"Authoring Tools and An Educational Object Economy (EOE)".  

Another significant milestone in its development included 23 systems and institutions of higher education 

becoming Institutional Partners of MERLOT in 2000. Each Institutional Partner contributed $25,000 and in 

kind support for eight faculty staff and

a project director (part time) to coordinate MERLOT activities. Since 

then it has grown with help of additional grants and sponsorship.  

It now supports an affiliation programme, syndicating its content across the world and an International Annual 

Conference. 

URL http://www.merlot.org/Home.po 

Aims and 

MERLOT is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. The 

Objectives 

repository is based on HTML links to online learning materials are collected here along with annotations such 

as peer reviews and assignments.  

In that spirit, MERLOT allows access to its site and the materials there in for personal and non commercial 

uses as laid out its IPR policy (it retains copyright on everything). 

Content is organised into categories: Simulation, Animation, Tutorial, Drill & Practice, Quiz/test, 

Lecture/Presentation, Case Study; Collection, Reference Material 

It also available through 15 different subject sections  

There is also subject specific communities to share good practice 

Peer review system clear and easy to use 

Able to do federated searches across other repositories including EdNA Online   Education 

Network Australia and ADRIENE Foundation for the European Knowledge Pool; 

MERLOT has approximately 12705 resources including its partners 

Metadata 

IEEE LOM 

Standards 

Content 

unable to find information at time of writing 

Packaging 

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