COERLL June Webinar Series: Finding Open Media for Foreign Language Instruction with Garin Fons and Nathalie Steinfeld Childre

2. Introductory Notes
Hashtag: #COERLL
Website: www.coerll.utexas.edu
Technical Help
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3. 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?
Contextualize
The changing landscape of education.
Wrap Up
Comments & Questions
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4. Opening Remarks
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5. CC: BY-NC-ND JAsper Nance
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nebarnix/4739284551/
Disruptive Innovation

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8. “...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/

9. “...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/

10. Cultivate Learning
Public Domain Content: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationaalarchief/5679580299/

11. OER as a Way to Innovate
Public Domain Content: http://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/4269081074/

12. Free and Open Culture
CC: BY-NC-SA sciencesque http://www.flickr.com/photos/apoptotic/2540055580/

13. 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/

14. 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)

15. 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/

16. 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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Free vs. Open

18. 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.

19. All Rights Reserved
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20. 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/

21. 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/

22. Copyright
Art
Writings
Music
Movies

23. 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

24. “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?”

25. CC
Some Rights Reserved

27. Benefits of Open Licenses

28. 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/

29. Why Use OER at All?
Make mere possibilities a reality.
thoughts shared by our friends at Open Tapestry

30. 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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31. Searching & Finding OER
www.creativecommons.org

32. Searching & Finding OER
Google - Advanced Search

33. Searching & Finding OER

34. 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

35. Types of OER

36. 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

37. 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.

38. Searching & Finding OER - Language Learning
www.oercommons.org

39. Focused on LCTLs
Searching & Finding OER - Language Learning
www.lmp.ucla.edu/

40. Searching & Finding OER - Language Learning
Constantly growing corpus
www.wikiversity.org

41. Searching & Finding OER - Language Learning
manage and publish content
share and find materials
www.languagebox.ac.uk

42. Searching & Finding OER - Language Learning
repository of content
other tools and resources
www.jorum.ac.uk

43. Searching & Finding OER - Language Learning

44. Searching & Finding OER - LRCs
www.nflrc.org

45. Searching & Finding OER - LRCs
Focused on Free Resources
COERLL focused on OER
Continuously expanding
www.nflrc.org

46. Searching & Finding OER - Language Learning
ROCKIN’ RUSSIAN

47. 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/

48. Searching & Finding OER - Language Learning
Focused on photos
Great realia
http://capl.washjeff.edu/

49. Searching & Finding OER - Social Media
#langchat
#edchat
Foreign Language Teaching
Creating an Open Classroom
Peeragogy in Action

50. 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?”

51. 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

52. Remixing OER

53. Remixing OER
Standard office suite word / presentation tools work just fine.
So do Google docs!

54. Public Domain Content: http://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/4011523181/
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.

55. It’s Good to Share
Public Domain Content: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationaalarchief/4900465601/
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

56. “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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