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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.”
License Undetermined http://davidwiley.org/
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.
All Rights Reserved
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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?”
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)
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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
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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