1. FINDING OER Rick Lumadue, PhD Program Manager/Grantee Relations
California State University-MERLOT

2. Agenda Explore existing openly licensed resources
Find and review existing OER created by TAACCCT grantees and reuse it for your grant work
Find and review existing OER created by non-TAACCCT grantees and reuse it for your grant work
Learn how to evaluate the quality of existing OER
Examine the benefits and process of reusing OER material
Understand the implications of OER and how to leverage it for enhanced grant success
Discover how others are using OER to improve quality and reduce costs – Ohio SkillsNetwork
Discover resources that can help you learn more
SkillsCommons IMPACTCommunities
Additional OER Resources

3. The TAACCCT Repository

4. Browsing by Industry

5. Browsing by Industry

6. Browsing by Industry

7. Browsing by Industry

8. Refine Search Results

9. Description of Content

10. Find Existing, Quality, Free and Open Ed Resources
Non-TAACCCT OER
Find Existing, Quality, Free and Open Ed Resources

11. CSU’s Affordable Learning Solutions
Alternative Quality Content
Tools & Technologies
Policies, Marketing & Implementation Strategies

12. Finding Free and Open Textbooks on AL$

13. AL$ OER Search Results

14. MERLOT:

15. Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
MERLOT since 1997
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
A free & open community for all who use, share, advise & evaluate online teaching & learning materials since 1997… with over 160,000 members.
A free digital library of online teaching and learning materials that is open for all to use… with over 60,000 materials across disciplines contributed by members.
A consortium of higher education institutions, professional societies, digital libraries, corporations, and other organizations supporting educational improvement through technology

16. MERLOT: Federated Search

17. Experience of TAACCCT Grantee’s Reuse of OER hosted on SkillsCommons
Making it Real!
Experience of TAACCCT Grantee’s Reuse
of OER hosted on SkillsCommons
Sarah Stubblefield (Project Manager) "Industrial Automation Manufacturing innovative Strategic Training Achieving Results”
(I AM iStar) Round 4 Grant Project
Plans to send link to students struggling with basic computer literacy
Developing Google Drive specific content to supplement what has been developed by Northcentral Technical College

18. Northcentral Technical College
Content Submitted by
Northcentral Technical College

19. Showcase for OER Reuse

20. Description of Content

21. SkillsCommons IMPACTCommunities

22. Additional OER Resources
Finding and Reusing Existing Open Content and OER:
CSU’s Affordability Agenda Supported by Tools:
Open Educational Resources for Nursing:
Virtual Labs in the CSU:
California Open Online Library for Education (COOL4Ed):
Previously Recorded OER Webinars from the Innovators in Online Learning Series may be freely accessed at:
Why remix an Open Educational Resource?
(Open Learning Network)
OER Network, Washington Community and Technical Colleges:

23. support@skillscommons.org Questions?
Rick Lumadue: Program Manager & Grantee Relations, SkillsCommons:

24. THANK YOU
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
This workforce solution was created through a cooperative agreement between the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration and the California State University-Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT).