With essential support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the California State University Long Beach, MERLOT (www.merlot.org) and SkillsCommons (www.skillscommons.org), the collaboration and community of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are designing and deploying strategies to make college more affordable by reducing the cost of course materials.
The Edward Waters University Online Learning Portal provides free access to the tools, technologies, and some services to initiate EWU's own AL$ program and learn from their HBCU colleagues. If you would like to become a MERLOT partner and collaboratively develop your customize HBCU AL$ portal, please contact: webmaster@merlot.org
Are you using OER in your teaching or your learning? Have you created free and open teaching materials? We invite you to catalog these resources in MERLOT. Your colleagues and students around the world will thank you!
IT IS EASY!
First: Become a member of MERLOT (It will take about 2 minutes and it is FREE).
Second: Fill out the online form to contribute a Material. (It will take about 4 minutes the first time. MERLOT provides systematic instructions on our YouTube Channel and a handout (PDF).