Sorel Reisman of California State University Fullerton

Sorel Reisman is Managing Director of the international higher education, educational technology consortium, MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) at the California State University Office of the Chancellor

This presentation will discuss the concept of openness, including the use and reuse of learning objects, the new user interfaces and features in MERLOT (released in March, 2018), and will focus on MERLOT’s ‘Smart Search’ integrated in 1) MERLOT own repository search, 2) direct search to more than a dozen popular digital libraries, and 3) pre-customized, profile-based WWW searches. There will be a focus on MERLOT’s recently added discipline communities of Information Technology and Computer Science, endorsed by the IEEE Computer Society and the IEEE Education Society.

Biography:

Sorel Reisman, recipient of the IEEE Computer Society 2018 Richard E. Merwin Award for Distinguished Service, is professor of information systems in the Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences at California State University, Fullerton. Reisman is Managing Director of the international higher education, educational technology consortium, MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) at the California State University Office of the Chancellor.

Reisman is past president of the Computer Society, current Chair of the Standing Committee of the IEEE-CS signature COMPSAC conference, a Computer Society Golden Core member, member of Eta Kappa Nu, an elected member-at-large of the IEEE Publications, Services, and Products Board (PSPB), member of the IEEE Xplore Platform Guidance Committee, the IEEE Conference Publications Committee, and the Strategic Planning Committee of the IEEE Technical Activities Board.  He has also been a member of the Education Activities Board, and was editor-in-chief of the IEEE eLearning Library.

Reisman received his EE degree, MA, and PhD in Computer Applications from the University of Toronto and was appointed a Fulbright Specialist in 2014.

Contact information:

Dr. S. Reisman

Managing Director, MERLOT.ORG 
California State University, Office of the Chancellor

Professor, Information Systems, CSU Fullerton

President Emeritus, IEEE Computer Society

Standing Committee Chair, IEEE COMPSAC
Fulbright Specialist OER

Address:California State University, Chancellor's Office, , Fullerton, California, United States, 92831