People: Associate Editor Materials

Associate Editors from the Business Discipline are willing to share some of the resources they use to manage the editing process within MERLOT.

• Tools for Managing the Peer Review Process
• Reviewer Survey - used to determine how many modules and what types of modules to assign to reviewers. The reviewer survey provided here was created using a simple online form processor available at http://www.response-o-matic.com.
• Review Tracking Spreadsheet - Contains four tabs within this Excel spreadsheet: 1) Deadlinks to track URL issues, lost reviews, and items recommended to be pulled from MERLOT, 2) Reviews by Module, 3) Reviews by Person, and 4) Editor Contributions.
• Review Assignment Tracking Worksheet - Contains four tabs wtihin this Excel spreadhseet: 1) modules, 2) assignments, 3) reviewers, and 4) triaged modules that have not been assigned.
• Reviewer Modules Listing - Word document that tracks assignments by reviewer and due date.
• Communications to Reviewers
  • End of Year Thank You Letter
  • Reminder Letter - sent approximately one week before a review is due.
  • Yearly Assignments - sent to reviewers to inform them of their assignments for the upcoming year.
  • Module Reviewer Form (v.14.1)
• Presentations and Flyers
  • Examples of presentations delivered at conferences to spread the word about MERLOT.
    • Swift, Moncada, and Flaherty (2003), "MERLOT: The Peer Review of Digital Scholarship," delivered at AACSB.
    • Swift, "Peer Review of Teaching Materials," Flaherty, "Benefits of Submitting Learning Materials to MERLOT," and Clarke, "Experience and Reactions to the Peer Review Process" combined presentations delivered at the 2003 Association of Marketing Theory and Practice.
    • Clarke, Flaherty, and Swift (2003, Panel proposal for a presentation at the Society of Marketing Advances conference.
    • Swift and Flaherty (2006), "What's New in MERLOT"?
    • Jessup, Moncada, Seda, and Ulstad, (2007), "How Accounting Educators in Two Year Schools Can Benefit from MERLOT," American Accounting Association conference
  • Flyers distributed at conferences
    • Discover MERLOT - one page, .pdf
    • Business Flyer - one page, .pdf
    • What on Earth is a Learning Object? - two pages, .pdf
    • Peer Reviewer Flyer - one page, .pdf

MERLOT members are welcome to suggest content for this page in our business portal. Please send your ideas to the Business Portal Editor, Theresa Flaherty at flahertb@jmu.edu. To ensure that your message does not get flagged as spam, please include MERLOT in the subject line.