WebCT and MERLOT Form Strategic Partnership to Energize Inter-Institution Learning Content Exchange

WebCT and MERLOT Form Strategic Partnership to Energize Inter-Institution Learning Content Exchange: "WebCT, maker of higher education's most flexible and widely used e-learning solution, today announced a strategic partnership with MERLOT, higher-education's leading online content clearinghouse. As a result, the MERLOT community will grow, and faculty will teach more effectively with WebCT course management systems (CMSs).
MERLOT stands for Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching. Under the partnership, unique among course management vendors, WebCT users will be able to perform targeted searches across the 10,000 learning objects indexed on MERLOT to create their customized online courses in a timely manner. They will pinpoint WebCT-ready content produced by faculty, institutions and publishers, including IMS standards-based learning modules, question databases and quizzes. WebCT users will also be able to easily identify training content designed to help faculty more effectively use WebCT e-learning systems."