SkillsCommons Repository

Last Updated: Spring 2023

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The SkillsCommons Repository (online library) provides open educational services and resources enabling individuals, communities, educational institutions, organizations, and businesses to prepare people for successful employment in the 21st Century. The US Department of Labor’s Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) program created the free and open online library called SkillsCommons to contain free and open learning materials and program support materials for job-driven workforce development.  The $1.9 billion investment by the US Department of Labor produced a comprehensive collection of workforce-related Open Educational Resources (OER) created by over 700 community colleges across the nation.  The OER can be found, reused, revised, retained, redistributed and remixed by an individual, institution, and industry for free with the proper attribution to the original author of the resources. SkillsCommons.org was designed and managed by the California State University Long Beach (CSULB) and its MERLOT program for the Department of Labor’s TAACCCT program under a 4+ year cooperative agreement. The California State University Long Beach /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. SkillsCommons is sustained as a CSULB-MERLOT service now that the cooperative agreement has concluded.

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