TY - DATA ED - MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) ED - Skills Commons. ED - The California State University. ED - MERCED-I (Mindanao Educational Resources for Curricular Enhancement and Development-Initiatives) on OER (Open Educational Resources) TI - eportfolios for affordable learning solutions programs [electronic resource] PY - 2020/// CY - Long Beach, CA PB - MERLOT, KW - Electronic information resources KW - Internet research KW - Internet in higher education KW - Open learning KW - Education, Higher KW - Electronic books KW - College teaching KW - Electronic portfolios.   KW - Aids and devices KW - Electronic portfolios.   KW - Electronic portfolios KW - Open educational resources.   KW - Open educational resources KW - Open Educational Resources (OER) KW - General Education (GE) N1 - mixed N2 - Quoted from the homepage: Open Educational Practices and Affordable Learning: MERLOT and SkillsCommons has been instrumental in a number of Affordable Learning programs that reduce the costs of course materials for students by providing access to over 7,000 free and open etextbooks and simultaneously searching over 70 additional open libraries. Sharing open educational practices of how faculty migrated from print textbooks and how they teach with OER is a critical strategy for changing faculty and campus culture to implement Affordable Learning Solutions programs. Capturing OEP in ePortfolios: MERLOT customized ePortfolio templates within its Content Builder application for faculty to share their adoption of free and open educational resources with the support of scaffolding questions about: The OER adopted for their courses. The courses they are teaching, including sharing their course syllabus and sample learning assignments. Most courses are general education courses common across higher education. The reasons why they changed to OER and low cost course materials; sometimes surveys of students' reactions to the OER are included. Explore over 100 open teaching ePortfolios by faculty (mostly California and MERLOT partners) adopting OER UR - https://oep.merlot.org/affordable_learning.html ER -