EFL and Other Resources

English as a Second or Foreign Language Resources

MERLOT has a World Languages Editorial Board with its portal and a curated collection of free online teaching and learning resources in ESL or EFL.

MERLOT also has an English Editorial Board, with its portal and a curated collection of free online teaching and learning resources for English language

Looking for Online Course Content?

MERLOT is your free and open library of free and open course content across all academic disciplines. In addition to its over 90,000 materials, it also simultaneously searches over 70 other free and open libraries as well as a dynamic, education-aligned searching of the web.

Affordable Learning Solutions from MERLOT & SkillsCommons provides a FREE and open library of training materials, virtual labs, and general education materials that you can give your students to help them learn. 

SkillsCommons is your free and open library of free and open workforce development and training resources funded by the U.S. Department of Labor. It is a national repository of workforce OER that supported over 700 community colleges creating enhancements and innovations in their workforce curriculum that is now OER available to you.



Looking Exemplary Practices for Teaching Online with OERs and other Technology Innovations?

MERLOT and SkillsCommons has openly published the "how, what, and why" of the design, delivery, and assessment of education by individuals and institutions.  Open Educational Practices enables educators to learn the "know how" of the amazingly complex processes of education.

Open Educational Practices have been captured in ePortfolios, multimedia case studies and more. Explore your colleagues' lessons learned for putting innovations into practice on the following topics: