MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. MERLOT is a continually growing catalog of online learning materials, peer reviews, learning assignments, and user comments that are organized by discipline. An international consortium of partners cooperate to continually create, expand, and refine MERLOT. MERLOT's goal is to improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning by increasing the quantity and quality of peer-reviewed online learning materials.

Board of Regents MERLOT membership fees and EveryTeacher funds are introducing this distance education strategy to faculty in higher education (public, private, and tribal) and K-12 teachers through a variety of hands-on workshops. Upon completion of these workshops, instructors can access these resources for their own classrooms and contribute technology infused instructional strategies to the vast repository of MERLOT resources.