95,000 Materials That Will Make Tutoring Better

Supporting our tutors is just as important as supporting our students. We strive to give our tutors the resources they need to be successful. As our organization grows, we are always seeking new partnerships with organizations who share a passion for our mission and can bolster the services we offer our communities, and that includes our tutors! And so we are excited to have partnered up with MERLOT, a system that provides access to curated online learning and support materials, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.

About MERLOT

MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) 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. They connect systems and institutions of higher education, professional academic organizations, and individuals to form a community who strives to enrich the teaching and learning experience. Those associated with MERLOT make it their mission to identify, peer review, and organize quality educational content for faculty and students across the world. MERLOT has been one of the pioneers in accessible online learning, so much so, that they host one of the world’s largest collections of open textbooks.

Tools for Tutors

We strive to provide the best resources for our tutors. By teaming up with MERLOT, we’ll offer tutors free access to their vast educational database. Tutors will leverage 95,000 materials in 22 different material type categories including animations, assessment tools, assignments, case studies, online courses, open-access textbooks and articles, presentations, quizzes and tests, just to name a few. Learning Exercises available include projects, papers, or activities that can be part of the coursework for a session, as well as the time involved to complete it. These materials can be organized into Collections under a specific theme, topic or subject. Our tutors can also specify their language preference and curate material searches to a specific language, especially useful for some of our tutors whose students are English Language Learners.

Our Collective Goal

We are thrilled to partner with MERLOT who shares in our mission to provide students from low-income communities with a quality learning experience. Many of our tutors today are full-time students, have full-time jobs, and carve out the time to give back to students and families in need through our organization. With an abundance of new learning tools, we aim to make their experience more fulfilling and ultimately set them up to best serve the students they care so much about.

To join our team visit us as pandemicprofessors.org/volunteer. For more information about our Partner for Purpose initiatives visit pandemicprofessors.org/partnerforpurpose.

If you are interested in partnering with us, please reach out to Sara Ellis (Director of Program Services & Development) at sara.ellis@pandemicprofessors.org.

Written By: Irfan Jeddy