My opinion of this OER is that it can be useful for educators, if they know how to use search terms and tags appropriately. The MERLOT site is fairly user friendly but can lead to issues if the user has little to no experience working with academic based search engines. The resources tend to be of good quality and can be ranked to provide other users an idea of the quality of the resource. The visual layout is simple and a little bland which is good to keep users from being distracted or getting lost with elaborate schemes. MERLOT as a whole would likely be a great resource for other educators at my school since it has many types of materials for different audiences.