FANTASTIC SkillsCommons OER Curriculum Resources for Career Pathways!

Are you designing career pathways programs? Save yourself some time and money--if you haven't seen this resource, you must check it out!!! AMAZING! Use them as is or redesign! OVER 7400 resources for FREE and open! There's another webinar coming up November 17, 3 to 4 PM ET about how to use them and connect with other folks who have or are using them too. https://www.workforcegps.org/events/2016/10/13/14/12/Utilizing-Free-Online-Educational-Resources-on-the-SkillsCommons-org-Repository-Part-II-Makeover You really don't want to miss it! And you can find all of the information from today's webinar here-- https://www.workforcegps.org/events/2016/10/13/13/57/Utilizing-Free-Online-Educational-Resources-on-the-SkillsCommons-org-Repository-Part-I-Introduction You don't have to be a TAACCCT grantee to take advantage of this tremendous resource that keeps you from reinventing wheels and reinvesting time and money!!!

Here's what they have to say from the website:

The US Department of Labor’s Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) program has created a free and open online library called SkillsCommons containing free and open learning materials and program support materials for job-driven workforce development.  The Open Educational Resources (OER) are produced by community colleges across the nation and can be found, reused, revised, retained, redistributed and remixed by individuals, institutions, and industry.

SkillsCommons.org is designed and managed by the California State University and its MERLOT program for the Department of Labor’s TAACCCT program under a 4 year cooperative agreement. The California State University/MERLOT team works with other TAACCCT partners to support the TAACCCT grantees in the creation and contribution of quality OER that are stored in the SkillsCommons online library.

The CSU-MERLOT strategy is to:

• Capture and preserve instructional and program support materials produced and/or used by TAACCCT grantees to deliver their innovative workforce development programs
• Enable discovery of the SkillsCommons.org materials so others can easily reuse the materials to accelerate and expand access to workforce development programs.
• Build communities with members from higher education, industry, and local, regional, state, and national organizations to assure the quality and growth in the collection of free, open, reusable and effective instructional and program support materials

DISCLAIMER: I am not affiliated in anyway with SkillsCommon. However, as a bargain shopper of quality goods--I know a good thing when I see it! And this.THIS is a REALLY good thing.