MERLOT

Have you visited MERLOT lately? As you may know, MERLOT (http://www.merlot.org/) is a collection of links to learning resources. Each learning resource includes a short abstract. It may also include a peer review, user comments, links to personal collections, and learning exercise. Membership is free.


The Health Sciences Editorial Board invites volunteers to assist with the peer review process. MERLOT offer GRAPE Camp (Getting Reviewers Accustomed to the Process of Evaluation) for training. For more information, go to http://taste.merlot.org/peerreviewer.html

MERLOT now has a “content builder” which allows users to build their own lessons on a remote server so that they can be shared with others. For more information, go to http://taste.merlot.org/Programs_and_Projects/ContentBuilder.html

MERLOT includes a variety of resources ranging from simple animations, to lessons with associated quizzes, open textbooks, and open courses, and more – all contributed by instructors, students, and other users. MERLOT is an international project. The MERLOT leadership is working with the International Cancer Coalition, and countries in South America, Africa, and India. You may be interested in one or more of the learning resources that have been contributed the MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching) in the last 10 days:

The Sweet Science of Chocolate; The Endowment for Human Development; Active, Health Lifestyles,; Child Health; Communicable Disease; Developing Anaesthesia; Introduction to Disaster Management;
Diversity and Difference in Communication; Addiction: Drugs, Brains, and Behavior - The Science of Addiction; Finding Information in Health and Lifestyle; Health Education& Health is Everywhere: Unraveling the Mystery of Health; HIV & AIDS; DVT & PE; Principles of Human Nutrition & Infection; Prevention & Issues in Complementary and Alternative Medicine ; Ganfyd,; Medicines by Design,; Medline Plus ; Medicine Transformed: on Access to Health Care; Moral and Ethical Principles in End of Life Care; Information About Alcohol; Information About the Brain; Understanding Cancer; The Essence of Drug Addiction; Understanding Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases; Understanding Human Genetic Variation; Information about the Science of Healthy Behaviors; Information about Hearing; Communication; Understanding, Information about Mental Illness and the Brain; Information about the Musculoskeletal and Skin Systems; Information about Sleep; Nutrition: Proteins, Obesity: Balanced Diets and Treatment; Occupational Health; Sexuality; Sexual Health; Sexually Transmitted Infections; Understanding Cardiovascular Diseases; Vaccination; How to Communicate as a Health Volunteer; & Neurophysiology for Medicine.

If you have any questions about the Health Sciences learning resources or volunteering to assist with the peer review process, please feel free to contact me. I invite you to share this email with your colleagues via email and listservs.