Free Resources from MERLOT
MERLOT: Free Resources and Open Textbooks
"Inspire, Innovate, Implement and Learn"
MERLOT
A Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching. Free reusable learning objects from faculty from all over the world. Many are peer-reviewed.
Types of Learning Materials
- Tutorials
- Collections
- Animations
- Learning Object Repositories
- Assignments
- Case Studies
- Simulations
- Quizzes/Tests
- Social Networking Tools
- Reference Materials
- Presentations
- Development Tools
- Open Textbooks
- Assessment Tools
- Online Courses
- Open Journals-Articles
- Drill and Practice
- Web applications for mobile devices
MERLOT resources that are helpful.
MERLOT Voices
Online Learning (journal)
Content Builder
Online Learning (journal)
A quarterly, free, open access journal containing peer-reviewd articles about online learning and teaching.Enables faculty to use technology effectively in online teaching and learning by learning from a community of researchers and scholars;Enables academic programs to design and deploy academic technology to optimize online teaching and learning;Builds a community around the research and scholarly use of multimedia educational resources for online teaching and learning.
MERLOT Voices
A place to meet other MERLOT members and discuss educational innovations and teaching.
Content Builder
Must be a MERLOT member to access this.
Categories
- Arts
- Business
- Education
- Humanities
- Mathematics and Statistics
- Science and Technology
- Social Sciences
- Academic Support Services
- Workforce Deveopment
Why join and use MERLOT?
As a Member you can:
Contribute learning materials and find learning objects that you can use in your classroom and share with students. Students can also join.
Create personal collections
Develop a personal profile
Share your online expertise
Receive peer recognition. Become a reviewer.
TBR E-Learning Website
TN eCampus
Moblizing the Tennessee Board of Regents.
TBR's MERLOT portal
Affordable learning solutions.
Discipline Communities
- Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
- Biology
- Business
- Chemistry
- Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Crimical Justice
- Engineering
- English
- Faculty Development
- Fire Safety
- Health Sciences
- History
- Information Technology
- Library and Information Services
- Mathematics
- Music
- Physics
- Psychology
- Statistics
- Teacher Education
- Techical Allied Health
- World Languages
Example Profile and Open Textbooks
Sally Robertson's personal collections
Free Textbooks
Informing teachers about this site and these free teaching materials might help lower the cost of textbooks.
Connexions
This is "a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc." Run by Rice University.
A Brave new digi-world and Carribbean literacy: a search for solutions
From the Connexions website.
Affordable Learning Solutions -- CSU
The CSU’s Affordable Learning Solutions Campaign is designed to enable faculty to choose and provide quality educational content that is more affordable for their students.
Flat World Knowledge
A commercial publisher of remixable textbooks by expert authors. Free online, Affordable offline, Creative Commons licensed, and Customizable by educators.
Community College Online Textbook Project (CCOTP)
Use of free and open textbooks can lower educational costs for students.
OER Commons
Also reviews textbooks.
College Open Textbooks
A collection of colleges, governmental agencies, education non-profits, and other education-related organizations that are focused on the mission of driving the awareness and advocacy for open textbooks.