Exploring Repositories, MERLOT

   I found that MERLOT is a collection of online resources,

 Its an open online community, where MERLOT is basically an open library for educators and leaner, you can contribute, build your personal collection of articles or books , add activities to existing books perhaps and membership if for free!

But, if you want to join a non profit organization, lets sat ,TLT: there is an individual payment for that, then youll have access to archives, exchange online sessions and so forth. example is as follows:

 https://tltgroup.wildapricot.org/Individual 

or if you want to join  Faculty Development Community Portal such as Teaching Professor , where youll have access to newsletter offering  ideas and insight to educators. This community is basically a source of  inspiration for more than 10,000 educators at levels of universities and colleges in  the world. You can go under their featured products and take perhaps training course for summer, such as for example: Developing and Teaching an Online course, for about 200 dollars per session .

I was interested in the access of journals that do relate to nutrition , i had whole access to the article about Asynchronous teaching a nutrition course online , link is as follows if you are interested 

https://olj.onlinelearningconsortium.org/index.php/olj/article/view/1910

In addition, if you chose lets say to go through community portals ,you would have access to a whole book!  created by OER l click whatever you need on the search icon, and many options of available books will pop out! together with their submitter , the authors and so forth 
 I was truly impressed by this collection of online resources and will definitely try to join as a member/contributor .

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