Introductory Notes

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ExploreRepositories, online communities, and organizations as sources for language learning OER.

Today’s Mission

DefineWhat are OER?

DiscoverWhere can we find OER?

ContextualizeThe changing landscape of education.

Wrap UpComments & Questions

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Opening Remarks

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Disruptive Innovation

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“...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)

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“...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)

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Cultivate Learning

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OER as a Way to Innovate

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Free and Open Culture

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What are Open Educational Resources?

“a universal educational resource available for the whole of humanity”

(UNESCO, 2002)

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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.”

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What are Open Educational Resources?

- Dr. David Wiley (Lumen Learning)

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)

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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

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The 4Rs

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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.

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Copyright

Copyright protects your creativity against uses you don’t consent to.

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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

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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?

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- 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?

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- From The U.S. Constitution“seriously. Maybe 150 years

before I can use this photo?”

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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)

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Why Use OER at All?

Make mere possibilities a reality.thoughts shared by our friends at Open Tapestry

What if instruction was contextualized in the real events of the world and professional discourse?

What if learners were asked to do their work in the open web where peers, mentors, and practitioners could encourage learners, and where learners could develop a digital identity?

What if learners were encouraged to connect their learning with content being produced by practitioners in their area of study?

What if we encouraged a more organic approach to education, where instead of simply trying to make students learn, we were more focused on finding ways to create the conditions for growth and improvement?

What if students and teachers were connected to others dedicated to the idea of creating resources and developing solutions that could help students, teachers, and others create personalized learning curriculums?

Why Use OER at All?

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Searching & Finding OER

www.creativecommons.org

Searching & Finding OER

Google - Advanced Search

Searching & Finding OER

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 - 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

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

Searching & Finding OER - LRCs

www.nflrc.org

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 - 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/

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

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Join online groups

“wanna work together?”

Challenges & Difficulties in Search

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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

Remixing OER

Remixing OER

Standard office suite word / presentation tools work just fine.

So do Google docs!

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Why OER?

let’s get back to the idea of education being an organic environment.

to cultivate an environment for growth and improvement and to

personalize teaching and learning.

It’s Good to Share

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Create content using tools that make it easy to share

Share what you create; license it using Creative Commons

Encourage others to share

Support those who do share

“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 (Creative Commons)

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