ATS @ A GLANCE

Accessing Quality Content Easily
Sharing Exemplary Educational Practices
Preparing Students for Success
Supporting Professional Development

Accessing Quality Content Easily

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Systemwide Electronic Information Resources (SEIR) ECC - Electronic Core Collection	Offers CSU Systemwide library strategy for purchasing electronic resources that are shared across all 23 campuses. (Accessible through CSU Network only.)
MERLOT - Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching	Offers free access to over 20,000 online teaching and learning materials across a wide range of disciplines.
World Images Database	Offers over 65,000 FREE copyright controlled digital images in the humanities, arts, social sciences and architecture for use in teaching and research.
Center for Alternate Media (CAM)	Provides over 10,000 commercial textbooks available in alternate accessible format.
Accessibility Resource Finder	Access to FREE digital library of resources concerning assistive technologies, accessibility products, accessibility evaluation methods and training materials.
BLOL - Biology Labs Online Biology Labs Online Simulations and Exercises	Offers fee-based virtual simulated labs covering major topics in biology.
XERXES	Provides a customizable technology development tool for libraries to dynamically search for library resources across a variety of collections and display the results in a user-friendly manner.
SFX SFX Search for Journals, Magazines and Newspapers CSU/SFX Metalib	Provides full text access to CSU electronic library resources.
CSU Special Collections	Provides a directory of over 600 special collections managed by our CSU libraries.
Digital Marketplace (DM)	Provides one-stop-shopping for FREE and Fee-based academic content.
Virtual Library (VL)	Provides every student at every CSU campus online access to a CSU systemwide library collection and suite of library services.

Sharing Exemplary Educational Practices

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Accessible Technology Initiative (ATI) Accessible Technology Teaching Commons	Discover the guidelines for procurement, web accessibility, instructional materials and training to meet the Accessible Technology goals of the CSU.
Transforming Course Design (TCD) Transforming Course Design Projects	Improves student learning outcomes and, when possible, reduces cost through a systemwide program for redesigning course curriculum and pedagogy.
Systemwide Learning Management System (LMS) Initiative	Learn about the analysis of learning management services and evaluation of learning management systems both proprietary and open source that the CSU is investigating. Learn about the RFP process underway and find the campus leaders in LMS activities.
Online Degree Programs	Discover all online BA/BS, MA/MS and credential degree programs offered across the CSU system.
Teaching Commons: ePortfolio	Provides web-based guidelines, resources and tools for planning and implementing the use of e-portfolios in the CSU.
Teaching Commons: Student Learning Outcomes	Provides web-based guidelines, resources and tools for planning and implementing student learning outcomes assessment, resources about and campus projects related to CLA, NSSE, and WASC.
MERLOT Journal for Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT)	Provides FREE online journal of peer reviewed research and case studies on the effective use of Academic Technology in teaching and learning.
MERLOT Pedagogy Portal	Provides a collection of online resources concerning teaching strategies, learners and learning theory, instructional design, teaching challenges and assessment and evaluation.
MERLOT Online and Hybrid Courses Portal	Provides a collection of online resources to aide institutional planning and course development for online and hybrid environments.
MERLOT Communities	Provides a collection of over 20 disciplined based portals for sharing teaching strategies, learning materials, links to professional development resources beyond MERLOT and showcasing exemplary online resources.
MERLOT ELIXR	Provides a discipline oriented web-based resource that illustrates exemplary teaching practices and inspires faculty to adopt those practices.
Teaching Commons: BioCompass	Provides the CSU Gateway to Biotechnology Education and Resources in the Greater Los Angeles region.

Preparing Students for Success

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CSU Math Success Website	Provides high school students authoritative advice on requirements for college-level math in the CSU and links to planning tools and remedial instruction.
CSU English Success Website	Provides high school students authoritative advice on requirements for college-level English in the CSU and links to planning tools and remedial instruction.
ALEKS ALEKS Math Success	Offers an online intelligent tutor that assesses and provides custom instruction for student learning for the CSU entry-level math courses.
Expository Writing Community	Provides English teachers and faculty members web-based expository writing materials and evaluation rubrics aligned with entry level English requirements at the CSU.
iCritical Thinking Tool	Provides an online scenario based assessment tool for evaluating students' information, communication and technology literacy skills. Collaboratively designed by ETS, the CSU and higher education partners.
Teaching Commons: Information and Communication Technology Literacy	Discover the wide range of resources, guidelines and instructional materials for integrating information and ICT Literacy into academic programs.
Teaching Commons: Science Education	Provides prospective science teachers, current teachers and CSU faculty guidelines, resources and links to experts on recruiting and retaining California science teachers.
Teaching Commons: Noyce Scholars	Provides resources on using virtual science labs in teaching high school biology, chemistry, physics and math in high-needs schools.
Teaching Commons: Ed.D Programs in Educational Leadership	Provides online resources and guidelines to doctoral students and their faculty for successful completion of Ed.D programs in the CSU.

Supporting Professional Development

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Community of Academic Technology and Staff (CATS)	Provides an on-going community of practice centered on the effective use of academic technology. Annual conference provides opportunity for training and sharing best practices.
Directors of Academic Technology Online Community	Join a list-serv and discover campus practices on a wide-range of academic technology projects.
Teaching Commons: Business	Access to CSU's online website for business faculty sharing teaching practices and resources in the business discipline.
Teaching Commons: Starter Kit	Provides tools, templates and guidelines for CSU faculty communities creating and sustaining their own teaching commons for sharing exemplary educational practices.
MERLOT International Conference (MIC)	Offers an annual international conference for sharing strategies for putting educational innovations into practice in higher education.
Colleague Connector	Locate CSU colleagues who share a teaching interest and join the community of CSU faculty getting connected on teaching and learning issues.
Center for Distributed Learning (CDL)	Provides expert support in developing academic technologies across the CSU.
Center for Usability in Design and Accessibility (CUDA)	Provides research, training, tools and methodologies for usability and accessibility evaluation.
Pachyderm	Provides a FREE, easy to use authoring tool for non-technical faculty and students to create online media rich instructional resources.