Presentation and workshop for the Brazilian Association for Distance Education (ABED), Sao Paulo Brazil. February 18, 2013.

1. Building and Translating OER in
English for the Brazilian Context
Brazilian Association for Distance Education
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Alannah Fitzgerald
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oter/3006499552/

2. Workshop & Presentation Overview
• Demonstration and play with the FLAX project
(Flexible Language Acquisition) tools and
collections
• Discussion on key questions from the TOETOE
International project with the University of
Oxford (Technology for Open English – Toying
with Open E-resources)

3. Collocation
Collocation
database
database
Any other
Any other
resource
resource
Digital Library
Digital Library
Glossary
Glossary

4. flax.nzdl.org

5. BNC/BAWE

6. Learning Collocations collection in FLAX
FLAX team collections building:
Shaoqun Wu, Ian Witten, Margaret Franken, Xiaofeng Yu – Waikato University
http://tinyurl.com/73zcgac

7. Where are the good published
collocations resources?
• Research shows that the successful use of
collocations in student writing and speaking
supports not only improved levels of accuracy
but also improved levels of fluency in their use of
English (Wray, 2002; Nesselhauf, 2003).
• Constraints with published collocations resources
– Publication issues = the number and specificity of
collocations examples that can be assigned to print
and CD-ROM formats.

8. British Academic Written English corpus:
browse by genre or discipline

9. Moving away from mutt genres with
digitally enhanced and authentic genres
• “ ‘mutt genres’—genres that do not respond to
rhetorical situations requiring communication in order
to accomplish a purpose that is meaningful to the
author” (Wardell, 2009).
• “Unsurprisingly, the utility of the corpus is increased
when it has been annotated, making it no longer a
body of text where linguistic information is implicitly
present, but one which may be considered a repository
of linguistic information.” (ICT4LT, Module 3.4 Corpus
Linguistics http://www.ict4lt.org/en/en_mod3-4.htm)

10. BAWE sub corpus wordlists

11. The BAWE sub corpus text collections:
POS-tagging phrases
http://tinyurl.com/cpwyefb

12. Search and store collocations

13. Retrieve and save collocations

14. Collocational links to further resources

15. Wikify key words & phrases
http://tinyurl.com/cpwyefb

16. Word lists:
general, academic, specific, key

17. How could you use the FLAX
collections in your teaching and
learning?

18. TOETOE International
• International Collaboration
• Canada, China, Korea, New Zealand, Vietnam,
India, United Kingdom, Brazil
• OER for ELT
• Corpora, Open Source Software, Creative
Commons Content
• FLAX and OpenSpires / Great Writers Inspire
• University of Waikato & University of Oxford

19. The Great Beyond with Open
English Language Resources
Open Education Conference 2012 Vancouver, Canada

20. Resource re-use card game: OER quality
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22. Promoting Open Educational Resources for
English Language Teaching
Beijing, China
Alannah Fitzgerald http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/4427310974

23. Message from the Chinese teachers
• In addition to the resource collections already built in
FLAX, they wanted language collections that reflected
their syllabuses, their texts, their students’ language
needs and so on.
• But how do you take teachers whose materials
development practices rely on copyrighted teaching
resources through the stages of collections building to
become open corpus developers?
• We know we can’t anticipate every need to build
specific collections for everyone but we can develop
simple-to-use open tools to help teachers and learners
do it for themselves.

24. What can publishers do with CC-BY OER?

25. Happy English Learning

26. Open Educational Resources for
English Language Teaching
Korea University Workshop
Alannah Fitzgerald http://www.flickr.com/photos/hyunwoosun/4965487511

27. The English language industry
“Korea currently has nearly 100,000 hagwons, which
must receive a permit from the local education
government to operate. The concentration of around
6000 hagwons in the Gangnam district of Seoul is
thought to be an important factor in the high housing
prices in that area, which has become a major social
issue. The hagwons have more teachers than the public
school system and attract the best ones with higher
salaries. Admission to prestigious hagwons is challenging
and depends on entrance exams.” (OECD Economic
Surveys: Korea 2012, p.131)

28. iTunesU
http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/

29. It’s all in the downloads
University Downloads
Open University, UK Over 34 million since June 2008
University of Oxford Over 9 million since June 2008
Coventry University 2.5 million in 2010 alone
University of Warwick 1 million Jan ‘09 – June ‘10
http://www.slideshare.net/tbirdcymru/itunes-u-corporate-channel-of-free-educational-resources

30. Networking Open
Tertiary Writing
Resources
New Zealand Tertiary Writers’ Colloquium
Waikato University
Alannah Fitzgerald http://www.flickr.com/photos/yaph/8022682955

31. English for Academic Purposes Forum
(EULEAP)
http://euleap.ning.com/

32. The EAP Blogosphere
http://www.youtube.com/user/AntlabJPN#p/u/1/_z9wwX7eR-Y

33. Open Educational Resources in
English for Academic Purposes
Hanoi Open University Workshop
January 11th, 2013
Alannah Fitzgerald Halong Bay by Saturn CC-BY-NC-SA

34. Sustainable OER
“Vice President Tung was eager to tell me that
OER and OCW were the lifelong learning mission
they had been edging toward for the past
fifteen years, putting aside faculty and university
savings to be able to show their commitment to
the MoE once the opportunity to wear the
OCW/OER mantel arose. There was no
government funding in this area, only
government policies and guidelines.”

35. Building Open Educational Resources for ELT
Delhi University Workshop
January 15th, 2013
Alannah Fitzgerald http://cie.du.ac.in/

36. From digital to print OER
• Working with print OER while online
connectivity in classrooms catches up.
– Developing high quality print-based OER course
packs
• What derivatives can we develop in paper-
based formats from corpus-based resources?

37. Emancipatory English with
Open Educational Resources
Alannah Fitzgerald

38. English as lingua franca
• How can we create open English language
resources that are high-quality and flexible?
• Beyond translation, how can we support English-
medium content so you can learn English at the same
time?
• Beyond English, how can we support e.g. Portuguese-
medium content so you can learn Portuguese at the
same time?
• How can the same open tools and resources
be used to develop flexible, high-quality
resources for learning any language?

39. FLAX Weaving with Oxford Open
Educational Resources
Alannah Fitzgerald
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cynnyw/235579293/

40. “In the late 19th century Oxford was one of the
pioneers of the university extension movement,
which enabled audiences around the UK to hear
what some of its lecturers had to say on a wide
range of topics. The OpenSpires project is the 21st
century equivalent, though, with the benefit of the
web, the audiences are now global and we hope
even more diverse. It is a pleasure to contribute to
this important venture, which is opening up Oxford
like never before”.
(McDonald, n.d.)

41. University of Oxford OER
http://openspires.oucs.ox.ac.uk/resources/index.html#posters
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42. http://www.slideshare.net/tbirdcymru/itunes-u-corporate-channel-of-free-educational-resources

43. Great Writers Inspire
http://writersinspire.org/

44. What could you do with the
Oxford Creative Commons
podcast content?

45. OpenSpires in FLAX

46. Mining Oxford podcasts

47. Mining & linking key collocations

48. Language Teachers:
OER creators, users, re-
mixers and publishers

49. Developing podcast activities in FLAX

50. Close exercises in FLAX

51. YouTube in FLAX

52. Scrambled sentences in FLAX

53. Drag ‘n’ Drop exercises in FLAX

54. Please register with FLAX to build your
own collections!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dopey/6273168640/

55. Thank you
Email: fitzgerald@education.concordia.ca; shaoqun@waikato.ac.nz
FLAX Language: flax.nzdl.org; Twitter: @AlannahFitz
Slideshare:http://www.slideshare.net/AlannahOpenEd/
Blog: Technology for Open English – Toying with Open E-resources
www.alannahfitzgerald.org