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Several members of the Range Science Education Council have collaborated on a project funded by a USDA-Higher Education Grant entitled, Repositioning Rangeland Education for a Changing World.  Our overall project goal is to revitalize rangeland curricula at universities in western North America and increase the number of students, and ultimately, graduates who will manage the rangelands of the world.  Over the past 3 years we have reached our goal by designing several products, including a course catalog for online courses, a website for recruiting students into range programs, and open-access instructional materials, all of which are provided through the globalrangelands.org/rangelandswest website, supported by The Rangelands Partnership. Specifically, the searchable catalog of online and alternative format courses will increase accessibility of current, range-related courses for traditional, non-traditional, and place-bound students.  The recruiting website provides materials and strategies for attracting high school students and university students in other majors into undergraduate range programs. The open-access website is a clearinghouse of instructional materials designed for college and university instructors of rangeland ecology and management to use and modify as they like to advance understanding of rangelands in their courses.  In addition, we have developed the website, http://wrangle.org/, which will provide reusable learning materials to engage students about rangelands and their management in North America and abroad.