actfl workshop / lote institute
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A bit of background on COERLL - the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning - at the University of Texas at Austin. Presentation also explains Open Educational Resources in the context of Creative Commons. Looks at the value proposition of sharing and participatory culture. Also, provides insight into repositories, websites, and other tools available for foreign language teachers, educators, and self learners to find, organize, and create high quality and relevant resources for learning a language.TRANSCRIPT
Explore!repositories, online communities, and organizations as sources for language learning OER.
Today’s Mission
Define!what are OER?
Discover!where can we find OER?
COERLL!who we are & what we do for educators.
The Future!toward shared & participatory culture
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CC: BY-SA 3.0 NASA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NASA_Mars_Rover.jpg
Coral by flightsaber http://www.flickr.com/photos/flightsaber/2204190345
CC BY-NC 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/
Coral
http://www.flickr.com/photos/19melissa68/4479055267/
Curl
Corelle_Snowflake Garland Cream &; Sugar with Salt & Paper (1974) by catface3 http://www.flickr.com/photos/jfholloway/1456419986/in/photostream
CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/
Corelle
Carl
Working on the cattle in the corrals.jpg by Alister.flint http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Working_on_the_cattle_in_the_corrals.jpg
CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)
Corral
About COERLL
- Newest of the 15 National Foreign Language Resource Centers (2010 - 2014), grant from the US Department of Education!!- Located at the University of Texas at Austin!!- Formerly the Texas Language Technology Center (TLTC)!!- Focused on Open Educational Resources (OER) for Language Learning
Mission
LRC Mission: to improve the teaching and learning of foreign languages by producing resources (materials and best practices) that can be profitably employed in K-12 and higher education settings.
COERLL’s Mission: to produce and disseminate Open Educational Resources (OERs) (e.g., online language courses, reference grammars, assessment tools, corpora, etc.
Open !Educational Resources
What are Open Educational Resources?
“a universal educational resource available for the whole of humanity” !
(UNESCO, 2002)
CC: BY-SA Opensourceway http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/6555466069/
Open Educational Resources (OER)
are teaching, learning, and research resources that
reside in the public domain or have been released
under a copyright license that permits their free use
and repurposing by others.”
License Undetermined http://davidwiley.org/
- Dr. David Wiley (Lumen Learning)
What are Open Educational Resources?
No cost vs. Freedom to reuse, revise, remix, redistribute.
Of the vast number of online resources accessible for free; few are actually Open.
Free vs. Open
CC: BY-NC CodyHoffman http://www.flickr.com/photos/thepinklemon/3876034684/
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The 4Rs
CC: BY Ivan Zuber http://www.flickr.com/photos/ivanzuber/2776100984/
Reuse
Revise
Remix
Redistribute
use the content in its unaltered / verbatim form.
adapt, adjust, modify, improve, or alter (translate).
combine the original or revised content with another OER to create something new.
share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others.
All Rights Reserved
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Copyright
Copyright protects your creativity against uses you don’t consent to.
CC: BY-NC-SA Great Beyond http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonyjcase/7483795014/
exclusive right to: !• make copies!• distribute, share, sell!• perform or display in public!• make derivative works (adaptations,
translations, supplemental materials)!• distribute, share, sell, and copy
derivative works !• license others to do those things!
Copyright limits the 4Rs
Copyright
Public Domain Content: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationaalarchief/3915529903/
Copyright
Art
Writings
MusicMovies
remember the earlier definition by UNESCO?
“to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for a limited Time to Authors
and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and
Discoveries."
Purpose of Copyright?
Public Domain Content: http://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/4727525216/
- From The U.S. Constitution
“to promote the Progress of Science and useful
Arts, by securing for a limited Time to
Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to
their respective Writings and Discoveries."
Purpose of Copyright?
Public Domain Content: http://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/4727525216/
- From The U.S. Constitution“seriously. Maybe 150 years
before I can use this photo?”
CCSome Rights Reserved
Benefits of Open Licenses
Benefits of Open Licenses
Users allowed to:!• Copy & distribute (don’t have to ask
permission from the copyright holder)!
• Legally download and publish !(don’t have to rely just on linking)!
• Adapt and customize the material !(in most cases)
CC: BY-NC DoimSioraf http://www.flickr.com/photos/cleanslatephotography/7899423426/
Many Types of OER
Teaching & Learning Materials •Open Textbooks (Digital / Print-on-Demand)
•Open Courseware (Presentations, Recorded Lectures, Lecture Notes, Syllabi)
• Classroom activities, lesson plans, assessments • Homework and practice exercises ! Authentic content in the L2 (texts, video, audio, images, realia)
Public Domain Content: http://www.flickr.com/photos/osucommons/3529534404/
17 million free media files (photos, videos, sounds)
240 million free, sharable photos (with CC license)
42,000 public domain books (65 languages)
4 million openly licensed videos (lectures, modules, etc.)
The Numbers
Types of OER
Searching & Finding OER
Google - Advanced Search
Searching & Finding OER
Searching & Finding OER - Language Learning
Note: Materials are not always OER
Large collection of materials
Ability to browse by language
Curation, peer review, and comments help best resources rise to the top
www.merlot.org
Searching & Finding OER - Language Learning
Focused around OER!! Includes both “big”
OER and “little” OER!! Language material
collection is small, but growing. !!Cannot browse by language.!
! New authoring feature make it easy to contribute and remix materials.
Searching & Finding OER - Language Learning
www.oercommons.org
Searching & Finding OER - Language Learning
Focused on LCTLs
Searching & Finding OER - Language Learning
www.lmp.ucla.edu/
Searching & Finding OER - Language Learning
Constantly growing corpus
www.wikiversity.org
Searching & Finding OER - Language Learning
manage and publish content
share and find materials
www.languagebox.ac.uk
Searching & Finding OER - Language Learning
repository of content
other tools and resources
www.jorum.ac.uk
Searching & Finding OER - Language Learning
Focused around OER!!Specific to language teaching!!Interface allows for you to create account, publish, and share your own resources.!!Connect with other language teachers throughout the globe.
http://loro.open.ac.uk/
Searching & Finding OER - Language Learning
Focused on photos
Great realia
http://capl.washjeff.edu/
Le Littéraire dans le quotidien
Searching & Finding OER - Language Learning
Searching & Finding OER - LRCs
Focused on Free Resources
COERLL focused on OER
Continuously expanding
www.nflrc.org
Searching & Finding OER - Language Learning
ROCKIN’ RUSSIAN
Searching & Finding OER - Social Media
#langchat
#edchat
Foreign Language Teaching
Creating an Open Classroom
Peeragogy in Action
Searching & Finding OER
Talk to Colleagues
Talk to Students
Public Domain Content: http://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/7136282629/
Join online groups
“wanna work together?”
Challenges & Difficulties in Search
Public Domain Content: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlscotland/3011974213/
A lack of consistent metadata makes it difficult to always find resources
Various repositories use different APIs
broken links
lack of clear licensing information, difficult to determine if something is OER or not
Some Rights Reserved
Martin Gommelwhere does this all lead?
CC: BY-NC-ND Jasper Nance !http://www.flickr.com/photos/nebarnix/4739284551/
Disruptive Innovation
A Culture of Open-ness
CC: BY-NC-SA sciencesque http://www.flickr.com/photos/apoptotic/2540055580/
toward a participatory culture using and reusing
creative materials for a variety of purposes.
a shared culture.
how we learn, not what we learn.
Public Domain Content: http://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/4011523181/
where to start
let’s get back to the idea of education being an
organic environment.
our role to cultivate an environment for growth and
improvement and to personalize teaching and
learning.
“...life is not linear; it’s organic. We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to the circumstances they help to create for us.” !- Sir Ken Robinson (TED 2006)
CC: BY-SA Sebastiaan ter Burg! http://www.flickr.com/photos/ter-burg/3570012810/
“...it’s not about scaling a new solution; it’s about creating a movement in education in which people develop their own solutions, but with external support based on personalized curriculum.” - Sir Ken Robinson
(TED 2006)
CC: BY-SA Sebastiaan ter Burg http://www.flickr.com/photos/ter-burg/3570012810/
