MERLOT online community

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The MERLOT online community is an online educational technology project hosted by the California State University System. The name "MERLOT" is arrived at by an acronym: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching.

MERLOT is a cooperative of higher education institutions whose stated goal is “to systematically enhance teaching and learning through the exchange, re-use and adaptation of learning resources and teaching expertise”. Through its public website, MERLOT provides an open repository of faculty teaching expertise with links to exemplary online learning resources. The public website is both a searchable database of recommended learning resources and a portal to 16 discipline-oriented community spaces, managed by Editorial Boards of university and college faculty.