About MERLOT, SkillsCommons, TIEC, & AUIS

in 1997, The Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT, www.merlot.org) is an international cooperative formed for the purpose of aggregating and making freely accessible high quality online resources to improve learning and teaching within higher education.  MERLOT’s organization and services are administered by the California State University and connect higher education systems, consortiums, and institutions, professional societies and organizations of academic disciplines, corporations, and individual members to form a community of people who strive to enrich the teaching and learning experiences with technologies.

MERLOT provides: 

• An open, online catalog of thousands of online learning materials.
• Quality assurance processes for the evaluating the learning materials
• Open community tools for its members to manage and personalize their use of MERLOT resources and services
• A directory of people with common interests in teaching and learning with online materials across a wide range of disciplines
• Technologies for customizing services for our partners
• Professional development services for our partners
• User-friendly authoring tools to create open educational resources
• Leadership opportunities for individuals and institutional to put educational innovations into practice

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Funded by the U.S. Department of Labor in 2014, California State University and MERLOT designed and implemented the national, open library of workforce programming and training materials called SkillsCommons at www.skillscommons.org. The SkillsCommons library is open for educators, workforce development staff, human resources staff, and individual workers and provides free and easy access to the innovative training materials across a wide variety of industry sectors that can be adopted and adapted for the local use. Learn more...

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Since 1985, the Texas International Education Consortium has been working on behalf of our members to build international partnerships and to build a global network of friends and sponsors to bring opportunities to Texas, and to share Texas expertise around the world. TIEC’s university matchmaking has opened opportunities for student, faculty and research as well as mobility, recruitment and exchange. TIEC was created to be a nimble programming partner to our public universities, and, for that reason, we have maintained a training institute in Austin, and J-1 and F-1 visa sponsorship services. This flexibility helps TIEC meet the diverse needs of our partners.   

OUR VISION: We value equity and access to high quality education globally; educational collaboration and partnerships; and long and lasting institutional commitments. To TIEC, education is a lifelong pursuit, and our programs respond to needs of all levels of learning and training. No project is ever a one-off for TIEC; rather, we see all our work as leading us down a two-way road and into the horizon. 

In 2006, the Board of Trustees of the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani set out to establish a not-for-profit institution dedicated to providing a comprehensive liberal arts education for the benefit of Kurdistan, Iraq and the wider region. 

It is the objective of the American University of Iraq Sulaimani to produce graduates of responsible character with the necessary knowledge and skills for professional and national leadership. Students will be prepared for successful careers in a modern, pluralistic society and a global environment. The educational programs of the University will be designed to develop strength in critical thinking, the ability to communicate well, a strong work ethic, good citizenship and personal integrity. Broad-based education, rooted in the American liberal arts tradition, as well as skill development will be achieved at the University through teaching excellence, quality scholarship and caring student services.