About MERLOT, SkillsCommons, & EGCC

in 1997, The Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT, www.merlot.org) is an international cooperative formed for the purpose of aggregating and making freely accessible high quality online resources to improve learning and teaching within higher education.  MERLOT’s organization and services are administered by the California State University and connect higher education systems, consortiums, and institutions, professional societies and organizations of academic disciplines, corporations, and individual members to form a community of people who strive to enrich the teaching and learning experiences with technologies.

MERLOT provides: 

• An open, online catalog of thousands of online learning materials.
• Quality assurance processes for the evaluating the learning materials
• Open community tools for its members to manage and personalize their use of MERLOT resources and services
• A directory of people with common interests in teaching and learning with online materials across a wide range of disciplines
• Technologies for customizing services for our partners
• Professional development services for our partners
• User-friendly authoring tools to create open educational resources
• Leadership opportunities for individuals and institutional to put educational innovations into practice

Visit MERLOT and its Programs

Funded by the U.S. Department of Labor in 2014, California State University and MERLOT designed and implemented the national, open library of workforce programming and training materials called SkillsCommons at www.skillscommons.org. The SkillsCommons library is open for educators, workforce development staff, human resources staff, and individual workers and provides free and easy access to the innovative training materials across a wide variety of industry sectors that can be adopted and adapted for the local use. Learn more...

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MISSION:  Provide educational leadership in developing a competitive workforce.

Vision Statement:  Empowering educators to deliver high quality CTE programs that ensure all students are positioned for career success.

ACTE Board Statement on Diversity and Inclusion:  The ACTE Board of Directors is deeply appreciative of the Diversity Task Force’s hard work, time and energy in developing recommendations for the Board to consider. Diversity and inclusion are important issues for ACTE. Building upon the work of the Diversity Task Force, the ACTE Board of Directors developed a Board Statement to address diversity and inclusion.

ACTE promotes high quality CTE programs for diverse audiences. We continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diversity of the CTE community. We are committed to equity, access, inclusion, and diversity throughout our organization.

Strategic Themes

• Member Value and Engagement
  • ACTE’s success is reliant on the success of its divisions, state associations and educators. Strengthening and supporting leadership and alignment throughout this infrastructure will increase both capacity and member value.
• Professional and Leadership Development
  • It is time to reinvent ACTE’s professional development system with the intention of growing every member, every year. Existing resources and delivery systems will evolve to meet the diverse needs of educators from pre-service to retirement. The system will use professional development to build capacity and confidence so that ACTE members grow from learners to leaders. It will provide high quality professional development available through a variety of delivery channels.
• Advocacy and Awareness
  • ACTE is seen as the credible source of information on U.S. Career and Technical Education. Through CTE brand development, advocacy and prioritized audience targeting, ACTE can impact the perceived value of CTE. Ultimately, ACTE can leverage its reputation to advocate for and change perceptions of CTE in targeted audiences
• Strategic Partnerships
  • ACTE is well positioned to serve as the liaison between business leaders, education leaders and policy makers. Expanded connections and shared initiatives with national CTE organizations like Advance CTE and the Career Technical Student Organizations will create a coherent system for connecting employers in the career education conversation.
• Innovation
  • From expanding CTE opportunities for middle school students to addressing emerging occupations, local programs need access to innovative curriculum and approaches aligned to ACTE’s High-quality CTE Framework to meet the education and training needs of America’s students and employers. ACTE’s expansive grassroots delivery structure offers an exceptional path to identify and scale innovation throughout the K-20 system.

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Instructions: How-To-Request-and-Customize-this-Site.pdf
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