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.

2. COERLL!
Today’s Mission
who we are & what we do for
educators.
Define!
what are OER?
Discover!
where can we find OER?
Text
Explore!
repositories, online communities, and
organizations as sources for
language learning OER.
The Future!
toward shared & participatory culture
CC: BY-SA 3.0 NASA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NASA_Mars_Rover.jpg

3. Coral
Coral by flightsaber
http://www.flickr.com/photos/flightsaber/2204190345
CC BY-NC 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

4. Curl
http://www.flickr.com/photos/19melissa68/4479055267/

5. Corelle
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/

6. Carl

7. Corral
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/)

9. 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!
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- Formerly the Texas Language Technology
Center (TLTC)!
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- Focused on Open Educational Resources
(OER) for Language Learning

10. 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.

11. Open !
Educational Resources

12. 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/

13. What are Open Educational Resources?
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.”
- Dr. David Wiley (Lumen Learning)
License Undetermined http://davidwiley.org/

14. Free vs. Open
No cost vs. Freedom to reuse, revise, remix, redistribute.
Of the vast number of online resources
accessible for free; few are actually Open.
CC: BY-NC CodyHoffman http://www.flickr.com/photos/thepinklemon/3876034684/

15. graphic from: David Wiley - iterating toward openness
Free vs. Open

16. The 4Rs
Reuse
use the content in its unaltered / verbatim form.
Revise
adapt, adjust, modify, improve, or alter (translate).
Remix
combine the original or revised content with
another OER to create something new.
Redistribute
share copies of the original content, your
revisions, or your remixes with others.
CC: BY Ivan Zuber http://www.flickr.com/photos/ivanzuber/2776100984/

17. C
All Rights Reserved

18. 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/

19. Copyright
Copyright limits the 4Rs
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!
Public Domain Content: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationaalarchief/3915529903/

20. Copyright
Writings
Art
Music
Movies

21. Purpose of Copyright?
“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."
- From The U.S. Constitution
Public Domain Content: http://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/4727525216/
remember the earlier
definition by UNESCO?

22. Purpose of Copyright?
“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."
- From The U.S. Constitution
Public Domain Content: http://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/4727525216/
“seriously. Maybe 150 years
before I can use this photo?”

23. CC
Some Rights Reserved

25. Benefits of Open Licenses

26. 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/

27. 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/

28. The Numbers
4 million openly licensed videos (lectures,
modules, etc.)
17 million free media files (photos, videos, sounds)
240 million free, sharable photos (with CC
license)
42,000 public domain books (65
languages)

29. Types of OER

30. Searching & Finding OER
www.creativecommons.org

31. Searching & Finding OER
Google - Advanced Search

32. Searching & Finding OER

33. Searching & Finding OER - Language Learning
Large collection of materials
Ability to browse by language
Curation, peer review, and
comments help best
resources rise to the top
Note: Materials are
not always OER
www.merlot.org

34. 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.!
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New authoring feature
make it easy to
contribute and remix
materials.

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

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

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

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

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

40. Searching & Finding OER - Language Learning
Focused around
OER!
!
Specific to language
teaching!
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Interface allows for
you to create
account, publish, and
share your own
resources.!
!
http://loro.open.ac.uk/
Connect with other
language teachers
throughout the globe.

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

42. Le Littéraire dans le quotidien

43. SpinTX

44. Searching & Finding OER - Language Learning

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

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

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

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

49. Searching & Finding OER
Talk to Colleagues
Talk to Students
Join online groups
“wanna work
together?”
Public Domain Content: http://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/7136282629/

50. Challenges & Difficulties in Search
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
Public Domain Content: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlscotland/3011974213/

51. where does this all lead?
Martin Gommel
Some Rights Reserved

52. Disruptive Innovation
CC: BY-NC-ND Jasper Nance !
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nebarnix/4739284551/

53. A Culture of Open-ness
CC: BY-NC-SA sciencesque http://www.flickr.com/photos/apoptotic/2540055580/

54. toward a
participatory culture
using and reusing
creative materials for
a variety of
purposes.

55. a shared culture.

58. how we learn,
not what we learn.

59. 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.
Public Domain Content: http://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/4011523181/

60. “...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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CC: BY-SA Sebastiaan ter Burg!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ter-burg/3570012810/

61. “...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/