About MERLOT
The Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) is:A free and continually growing catalog of more than 15,000 online learning materials, peer reviews, learning assignments, and user comments, organized by discipline into specific discipline communities and created to help faculty enhance their instruction. A community of more than 36,000 individual members, from academia, business, and professional organizations, who strive to share and enrich their teaching and learning experiences by contributing to MERLOT. Contributing and sharing materials and resources is free to MERLOT members. A technology initiative with its own infrastructure and dynamically designed set of technology tools and software development policies created to help faculty integrate high quality online instructional technology resources into their courses effectively, easily, and enjoyably. An international consortium of partners and affiliates who cooperate to continually create, expand, and refine MERLOT to transform and improve higher education.