HBCU Affordable Learning Solutions Community Portal

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OUR GOALS:

The HBCU Affordable Learning Community is building a collection of free and open educational resources to support faculty and students teaching and learning in Africana, African American, and Black Studies programs as well as bringing the Africana, African American, and Black Studies content and context into all disciplines. We know the topic areas within the collection will expand over time with the participation and leadership of the HBCU community.

Explore all the MERLOT Members with expertise across many disciplines who are members of HBCUs:

Become a MERLOT member and be part of the HBCU community build a free and open cultural collection.

OUR INVITATION:

With the support of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and our long-time partner MERLOT, the HBCU Affordable Learning Community invite you to help us build a diverse and inclusive collection of free and open educational resources that will strengthen the online educational voices of our community and share our voices with all educators and learners.

Explore the Africana, African American, and Black Studies collection in MERLOT

Our initial priorities in building the collection are:

Explore free and open educational resources related to African topics across disciplines in the broader MERLOT collection

Explore online resources across a wide range of other open online libraries using MERLOT's SmartSearch

Want to ADD MATERIALS to the MERLOT Collection? It's Easy!!!

Explore free and open educational resources that were AUTHORED by faculty affiliated with HBCUs and cataloged in the MERLOT collection

Explore free and open educational resources that were SELECTED AND SUBMITTED by faculty affiliated with HBCUs and cataloged in the MERLOT collection

Explore all the MERLOT Members who are affiliated with HBCUs and who created BOOKMARK COLLECTIONS in different disciplines

MIT Open CourseWare Resources for HBCU AL$ Cultural Collections

As a collaborator with Tennessee State University on a William and Flora Hewlett Foundation grant, MIT OCW has curated a collection of over 30 free and open educational resources cataloged under Africana topics across disciplines in the broader MERLOT collection.

Explore the OER on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusiveness:

In Supporting Academic Programs

Diversity, Equity, Inclusiveness

In Education

In Workforce Development

EXPLORE Resources from the National Museum of African American History and Culture

EXPLORE Resources for the Black Freedom Struggle in the United States from the
Proquest Collection

Slavery and Abolitionist Movement
(1790-1860)

Leaders of the Abolitionists Movement
Census data
Legislation and legal cases about race and slavery
Presidential speeches and communications
Religion
Slave rebellions and resistance
State legislation about race and slavery

Civil War and Reconstruction Era
(1861-1877)

Acts and amendments
Black political leaders and activists during reconstruction
Civil War and Reconstruction Era:

African Americans in military service
Organizations
Racial intimidation and violence

Jim Crow Era from 1878 to the Great Depression
(1878-1932)

The Great Migration
Jim Crow Era to the Great Depression:

Laws and legal cases
People and organizations
Racial intimidation and violence

New Deal and World War II
(1933-1945)

African Americans in the military
Federal organizations
People and organizations
Urban rebellions and uprisings

Civil Rights and Black Power Movements
(1946-1975)

Civil rights legislation
Legal cases
People and organizations
Urban rebellions and uprisings
Demonstrations and protests
Presidential committees and commissions

Contemporary Era
(1976-2000s)

Civil rights legislation
Legal cases
Policing and protests

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).

HBCU CULTURAL COLLECTIONS