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COERLL: Introduction to OER
1. Open by Design:
Foreign Language Materials for
the 21st Century
Carl S. Blyth
University of Texas at Austin
East Stroudsburg University OER Workshop
September 16, 2017
4. Corelle
Corelle_Snowflake Garland Cream &; Sugar with Salt & Paper (1974) by catface3
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jfholloway/1456419986/in/photostream
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5. Working on the cattle in the corrals.jpg by Alister.flint
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Corral
7. One of16 National Foreign Language
Resource Centers (2014 – 2018), grant
from US Department of Education
Located at The University of Texas at
Austin
Only US DOE Title VI Center (NRCs &
LRCs) focused on Open Education and
Open Educational Resources (OER)
About COERLL
8. The Crisis: Pedagogical Materials
Higher Education
$1300.00 per year the avg. cost of textbooks for an
American college student
Secondary Education
Textbook funding slashed by state budgets. Since
2008, many states have cut textbook funding by
more than 50%
10. 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.).
Mission
11. Defining Open Education
“A collective term that refers to forms of
education in which knowledge, ideas or
important aspects of teaching
methodology or infrastructure are
shared freely over the Internet.”
(Wikipedia)
12. Open Education Movement
“The open education (OE) movement is based
on a set of intuitions shared by a remarkably
wide range of academics: that knowledge should
be free and open to use and re-use; that
collaboration should be easier, not harder; that
people should receive credit and kudos for
contributing to education and research; and that
concepts and ideas are linked in unusual and
surprising ways and not the simple linear forms
that today’s textbook present.”
(Baraniuk 2007: 229)
13. Coined in 2002 during a
UNESCO meeting, the term
OER refers to any
educational material offered
freely for anyone to use,
typically involving some
permission to re-mix,
improve, and redistribute.
What we mean by OER
15. “Gratis” vs. “Libre”
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16. Types of OER
• Open Textbooks (e.g., digital / print-on-demand)
• Open Courseware (e.g., Power point slides,
audio/video lectures, syllabi)
• Classroom Activities, Lesson Plans, Quizzes
• Homework and Practice Exercises
• Authentic L2 Content (e.g., texts, video, audio,
images, realia)
17. What we mean by OPEN
1. Free Access (online, no passwords, no fees)
2. Enable the “4 R’s”
Reuse - copy verbatim
Redistribute - share with others
Revise - adapt and edit
Remix - combine with others
18. OER Enablers
Open Standards
How to design
OERs for sharing
Open Licenses
Permission to
share OERs
Technology
Tools for
creating &
sharing OER
Communities
of practice
Sharing ideas &
best practices
through dialogue
19. Copyright
“Copyright is a legal right created by the law of a country
that grants the creator of an original work exclusive rights
for its use and distribution. This is usually only for a
limited time.* The exclusive rights are not absolute but
limited by limitations and exceptions to copyright law,
including fair use.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright
*For works published after 1977, the copyright lasts for the life of the
author plus 70 years.
20. Fair Use
“In its most general sense, a fair use is any copying of
copyrighted material done for a limited and
transformative purpose, such as to comment upon,
criticize, or parody a copyrighted work. Such uses can be
done without permission from the copyright owner.”
What Is Fair Use? - Stanford Copyright & Fair Use
fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/what-is-fair-use/
21. R U Keeping It Legal?
“I put all copyrighted materials for my course on our
school’s password protected LMS. That way, only my
students can access the materials. So, I am not really
breaking the law, right?”
WRONG!!!
If you want to keep your use of media legal, you should
always link to copyrighted media, especially if you are
using a work in its entirety.
23. • The right to copy
• The right to distribute copies
• The right to make derivatives
• The right to sell the original or derivatives for a
profit
Copyright
24. Creative Commons: Open Licenses
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32. Big vs. Little OER
Big OER Little OER
Typically generated by institutions. Typically generated and shared by
individuals.
Advantages = high reputation, good
teaching quality, little reversioning
required, easily located.
Advantages = cheap, web-native, easily
remixed and reused.
Disadvantages = expensive, often not web
native, reuse limited
Disadvantages = lower production quality,
reputation can be more difficult to
ascertain, more difficult to locate
Examples: MIT Courseware, UK’s
OpenLearn
Examples: Blog posts, podcasts, etc.
Source: Martin Weller http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2009/12/the-politics-of-oer.html
33. COERLL’s Strategies for Openness
Design for Sharing & Collaboration
Modular content
Shareable media (YouTube)
Editable formats (Google Docs)
Multiple access formats (print-on-
demand, mobile, Web, etc.)
Building Communities
Teachers + Learners +
Administrators + Developers
47. Benefits to Students
Lower costs ex. Français Interactif=$2M saved at UT-Austin
Adaptable materials to meet local and
personal needs
Learner-designed materials thanks to
“inreach” (involvement of students in product
design)
Improved quality of pedagogical materials
thanks to crowd-sourcing (involvement of
students in copy editing and fact checking)
48. Benefits to Teachers
Greater impact; reach more learners and gain
recognition
More control over materials
High quality materials for less commonly
taught languages
Become a member of a community of practice
49. OER Challenges
Lack of awareness
What are OER? What’s Creative Commons?
Training and support
Who will help me if the video crashes?
Quality control
Don’t you get what you pay for?
Findability
Where do you find the good stuff?
Sustainability
Altruism isn’t an business model, right?
TLTC provided technology support to instructors in the FL departments who wanted to develop online materials. We had always made these materials open access, so it was a natural progression for us to focus on OER as a language resource center.
as in the OER definition from wikipedia.
I want to start by introducing COERLL, giving you a little background on our center.
Then, I will discuss the “OER” in COERLL – what open educational resources means to us and how we are opening up our language learning tools and materials.
I will give you a peek at some of the projects we have been working on.
And finally, I want to wrap up by sharing some lessons learned in our journey to becoming more open.
I want to start by introducing COERLL, giving you a little background on our center.
Then, I will discuss the “OER” in COERLL – what open educational resources means to us and how we are opening up our language learning tools and materials.
I will give you a peek at some of the projects we have been working on.
And finally, I want to wrap up by sharing some lessons learned in our journey to becoming more open.
as in the OER definition from wikipedia.
Difference between the meanings of "free", yes it is free as in no cost, but it is also free as in giving you the freedom of sharing ownership of the material.
Determine how to move from open access websites to true OER
Retrofit existing materials if possible
Implement new tools, processes, and strategies to develop new OER
Grow communities around our OER
CC Search Portal
Student-generated content
CreateSpace & Qoop
Created in MS Word, All PDFs
Spanish in Texas
Development of materials using video samples from the Corpus
Editing pedagogically-useful clips and sharing on YouTube
Experimenting with TedEd
Launching Facebook community, etc.