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Finding Open Educational Resources (OER) for Language Learning Rachael Gilg Projects Manager, COERLL

Finding Open Educational Resources for Language Learning

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Presentation by Rachael Gilg at "The Power of Openness: Improving Foreign Language Learning Through Open Education", held at the University of Texas at Austin and online on August 9-10, 2012.

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Finding Open Educational Resources (OER) for Language Learning

Rachael GilgProjects Manager, COERLL

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Today’s Mission

Work found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NASA_Mars_Rover.jpg / http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

DefineWhat are these OER we are looking for?

DiscoverHow and where can we find OER?

ExploreRepositories, collections, and communities as sources for language learning OER.

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Types of OER• Open Textbooks (Digital / Print-on-Demand)• Open Courseware (PowerPoints, Audio or Video

Lectures, Lecture Notes, Syllabi)• Classroom activities, lesson plans, assessments• Homework and practice exercises

• Authentic content in the L2 (texts, video, audio, images, realia)

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Open Content / Open Licenses

File:Tyler.stefanich_Creative_Commons_Swag_Contest_2007_2_(by).jpg found at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki / BY-SA (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)

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Benefits of Open Licenses

You are allowed to:

Copy and distribute without having to ask permission from the copyright holder.

Legally download and publish the material in a stable location so you don’t have to rely on just linking.

(In some cases) adapt and customize the materials for your learners.

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http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Recognizing_licensed_work

Recognizing a CC Licensed Work

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http://www.dailydot.com/news/youtube-creative-commons-record

4 million openly-licensed videos!

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13 million free media files (photos, videos, sounds)http://commons.wikimedia.org

67 million free, shareable photos. (CC-NC-SA)http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

40,000 public domain books (65 languages)http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/

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• Credit the creator• Provide the title of the work• Provide the URL where the work is

hosted• Indicate the type of license it is

available under and provide a link to the license

• Keep intact any copyright notice associated with the work.

Attributing a CC Licensed Work

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Open Attributehttp://openattribute.com/

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Narrowing the Search: Sources for Language Learning OER

Repositories, Collections & Communities

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Evaluation Criteria

Match with learner needsAlignment with curriculum standardsEase of use and accessibility (open formats, ability to

download source files)License restrictions (degree of openness)Reputation of author / peer reviewCommunity support

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Sources: OER Repositories

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MERLOThttp://www.merlot.org

Large collection of language materials

Ability to Browse by language

Curation, peer review, and comments help best resources rise to the top

Materials are not necessarily OER

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OER Commonshttp://www.oercommons.org/

Focused around OER

Includes both “big” OER and “little” OER

Language material collection is small but growing. Can’t browse by languages.

New authoring features make it easy to contribute and remix materials

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Connexionshttp://cnx.org

• Create and share small knowledge chunks called “Modules”

• Platform for assembling Modules into courses, textbooks, etc.

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Sources: Language Centers and Institutional Archives

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Language Resource Centers (LRCs)http://nflrc.msu.edu/login/scripts/materials_search.php

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Language Open Resources Online (LORO)http://loro.open.ac.uk/

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http://capl.washjeff.edu/

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Source: Social Media & Individual Curation

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#langchat on Twitter

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Français interactif Facebook Community

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Sources: Content Re-Mixing Platforms

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http://www.youtube.com/editor

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http://www.youtube.com/editor

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http://ed.ted.com

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http://ed.ted.com

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https://video-tech.ca/

VidéoTech by Carleton University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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http://www.oerglue.com/

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“We haven’t come close to tapping the full potential of OER. We need to help more people understand that these

materials are not just free, they can also create communities of teachers and

learners who collaborate on their continuous improvement, and that’s the

real magic – in the actual reuse and remix.”

Cathy Casserly, CEO of Creative Commons

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Q&A Period

What questions do you have about finding OER for language learning or any of the sites & tools shown?