MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching www.merlot.org) has partnered with the leadership at Southern University (Moustapha Diack) and Tennessee State University (Robbie Melton) to support an expanding community of HBCUs developing and implementing their campus-centric Affordable Learning Solutions (AL$) initiatives. With funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, we are strengthening the organizational infrastructure of the HBCU community to grow the successful adoption of AL$ to all the HBCUs who wish to participate. The HBCU AL$ community will be sharing our resources and exemplary practices as well as conducting research on how best to serve the needs of the HBCUs in making higher education more affordable by reducing the cost of course materials. A critical goal of this project is to also facilitate the sharing of Open Educational Resources (OER) developed by HBCUs for their own academic programs. Building a collection of culturally inclusive curriculum that is free and open for teaching and learning will benefit our diverse students.
Membership in the Leadership team includes leading at least one taskforce that focuses on a key process for the programs' success.
Marketing, money, and recruitment for expanding HBCU AL$ Community
Co-Chairs: Melton & Diack
Discipline-specific AL$ strategies for engaging faculty
Co-Chairs: McSwain & Medastin
Research & exemplary practices: Conducting projects and reporting results
Co-Chairs: Tracy & Barley
Emerging and existing technologies to advance HBCU AL$ mission
Co-Chairs- Melton & Malloy
Global engagement of HBCU AL$ mission and projects
Co-Chairs – Diack & Diop
Professional development for faculty, administrators, and staff for designing and implementing their local AL$ program
Chair – Lewis & McSwain
Diversity, Equity, Inclusiveness: Developing and implementing strategies serve diverse populations to achieve equitable outcomes through inclusive processes
Chairs – Melton & Nichols
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).