About Us
The CSU OERN Mission Statement
- To create an open resource repository of nursing educational materials covering diverse aspects of nursing
- To promote global sharing of Nursing resources
- To provide educational resources to enhance the capacities of nurses to diagnose and treat patients.
- To provide free access to advances in basic and clinical research information in user friendly format.
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OERN Advisory Committee
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www.merlot.org 
MERLOT is an international cooperative for putting educational innovations into practice to improve learning and teaching in higher education. The cooperative connects higher education systems, consortia, individual institutions of higher education, professional organizations of academic disciplines, and individuals to form a community of people who strive to enrich the teaching and learning experience. MERLOT is a cooperatively developed, free, web-based resource where faculty and students can easily find digital learning materials with evaluations and guidance for their use. MERLOT enables faculty to effectively and easily choose and use the best online learning materials for their students’ that are compatible with their own teaching methods and the learning goals of their academic program. Faculty, students, staff, and administrators are invited to join this cooperative endeavor and shape the educational resources to serve their needs.
MERLOT’s premier service is a free and open online catalog of over 20,000 web-based learning materials for a wide range of disciplines that are designed to be integrated into larger courses (www.merlot.org ). MERLOT does not store the actual learning materials on its servers but simply provides the links and descriptions of the materials. The learning materials are organized by subject for easy browsing of the collection. Searching is available over a variety of dimensions, such as the type of material it is (simulation, tutorial, reference, etc.). Most of the materials run inside a web browser. Each catalog record of learning material can also have links to sample student assignments for using the materials, peer reviews of the materials, and comments by members of the MERLOT community. These annotations provide users with the pedagogical context for choosing, evaluating, and integrating the online materials into teaching and learning. MERLOT also contains profiles of over 60,000 people from around the world who are registered users of and contributors to the MERLOT collection. In 2008, MERLOT had over 1,600,000 visits to the website from over 100 countries. The Member Directory contains contact information, academic areas of expertise, and an ePortfolio of contributions to MERLOT as well as members’ personal selections of MERLOT materials.