About WISE Pathways, MERLOT, & SkillsCommons
About WISE Pathways, MERLOT, & SkillsCommons
WISE (Women in Sustainable Employment) Pathways is a career exploration course designed for women to explore non-traditional in-demand jobs in the energy/utilities, construction, public safety, manufacturing, information technology and transportation industries. By completing all 16 sessions of the WISE Pathways program, women have the opportunity to learn about career paths, strategies in conflict management, team building, workplace expectations, resume creation, applying online, interviewing, and connecting with recruiters. Learn more...
WISE OER COLLECTION EDITORIAL BOARD support the curation and recommendation of training resources
Since 1997, The Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT, www.merlot.org) leads 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
SkillsCommons is creating a customized repository for the National Digital Equity for Financial, Economic and Educational Inclusion project to store, curate, distribute, rebrand, and revise the resources created for the National - Digital Equity for Financial, Economic and Educational Inclusion, along with reliable and effective support services. Learn more about our Products & Services to help advanced your strategic initiatives below.
Partner with SkillsCommons | Visit the SkillsCommons Repository
California State University, Long Beach and its MERLOT program designed and implemented the national, open library of workforce programming and training materials called SkillsCommons. 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.