Open the Educational Repositories!

Burn the prisons!

Things make sense in my head.... both statements are demands for systemic change to address centurial, generationaly deep and culturally carried forth, frameworks of genocidal exclusion. Because #schooltoprisonpipeline #colorlines #ageism #colonialism #ableism etc. see #thewebofoppression we need to open fully inclusive and equitably accessed educational deposits of wealth traditionally saved for elites through the many barriers of academia yet unaddressed.

I really just meant to say -

it is important to have open access to resources that benefit learners with diverse abilities.

Future Proofing Your IT Operating Model for Digital

Having worked with Operating Model for over 10 years, Dave has new adopted DevOps, IT4IT and Continuous Delivery alongside traditional frameworks. The concept of the value stream is central to the thinking. The presentation was delivered as a Keynote at the Open Group in Amsterdam.

National Assistive Technology in Education Network

NATEN brings together information from the many fields and disciplines that are involved in assistive technology services in educational settings.

Catalog your web-based materials in MERLOT so others can find them.

Upload documents in MERLOT so others can use them.

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WHEN YOU FIND A MERLOT RESOURCE, ADD YOUR VOICE

Add a comment about how you are using OER you've found in MERLOT
Share your open educational practice through social media platforms with easy referencing to OER.
Create and share your own personal "bookshelf" of OER in MERLOT with our Bookmark and Course ePortfolio tools
Describe Learning Exercises you've design with OER using a MERLOT easy-to-complete format.

WANT TO CREATE YOUR OWN OER AND SHARE?

MERLOT's Content Builder provides a free, open, and easy to use authoring tool for faculty and students to design their ePortfolios. All websites built with Content Builder are fully accessible, scaleable to any screen size or device, and are hosted by MERLOT. Tutorials and guides will show you how to create, edit, and publish a website entirely for free!

Get Started with our YouTube videos on creating a website with MERLOT Content Builder.
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MERLOT Content Builder provides ePortfolio templates with scaffolding guidelines to create quality derivative OERs on:

Course Redesign
Adopting OER course materials
Virtual Labs
Teaching & Learning Online institutional portals
And more…

NEED HELP?

MERLOT's YouTube Channel has lots of video tutorials to show you what to do.
MERLOT's Help Guides explains step-by-step procedures to use Content Builder's many capabilities.