Affordable Learning Resources at Savannah State University
This eLearning portal is a partnership between Savannah State University and the MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) organization. It represents SSU's commitment to promoting student success by providing affordable educational alternatives to traditional textbooks and quality digital learning materials for learning and online teaching.
Savannah State University is committed to fostering educational equity and promoting student success every day by providing students, faculty, and staff with access to free and low-cost educational materials. Since 2013, SSU has saved Tigers thousands of dollars by replacing traditionally published textbooks with high-quality, affordable, and open-source Open Educational Resources (OER) materials in our courses. SSU quickly became one of Georgia's top adopters of affordable learning through our partnership with Affordable Learning Georgia, a University System of Georgia initiative that focuses on reducing student textbook costs through use of OERs.
In 2025, Savannah State joined HCBU Affordable Learning Solutions, a MERLOT partner service. On this site, you will find a wealth of free open educational resources (OER) such as eTextbooks for students, faculty, and staff in one convenient location on the web.
FIND
Looking for FREE and OPEN online materials for your courses?
- FREE and OPEN eTextbooks
- FREE & OPEN Course Materials
- FREE and OPEN Career & Technical Education Materials
- FREE and OPEN Online Courses
- FREE and OPEN Access Journals & Articles
Looking to LEARN how your colleagues are using FREE and OPEN eTextbooks?
HBCU CULTURAL COLLECTIONS
HBCUs have been authoring and collecting educational resources that are inclusive of the African and African-American culture, priorities, people, events, accomplishments, and more. The HBCU Affordable Learning Solutions Community Portal will provide an easy-to-use collection of these free and open educational resources.
EXPLORE THE HBCU CULTURAL COLLECTIONS
CONNECT WITH HBCU AFFORDABLE LEARNING COMMUNITY
Looking to meet face-to-face with the HBCU Affordable Learning Community at conferences?
Looking to connect with people implementing their own Affordable Learning Solutions program?
HBCU CODE & CREATE (C2)
HBCUs focus their vision on the educational and economical impact of technology across their communities. HBCUs and education, community, and industry partners work together to prepare students to meet workforce opportunities by developing an innovation plan to code, think, design and contribute to their home campus and communities.
ADD Free and Open Educational Resources You're Using or Created into MERLOT
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).
Enter key words below to search the SkillsCommons library for Free Workforce Development OER
Enter key words below to search the MERLOT library, over 75 other open libraries, and more!
Enter the ISBN of a book below to find related FREE eTextbooks and more.