Beyond Content: Open Educational
Practices for English Language Education
Alannah Fitzgerald IATEFL 2013
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dysturb/2903575788/in/photostream/

Overview
• TOETOE International with the University of Oxford and the
HEA/JISC
– Open Educational Resources (OER) International Programme
– Evaluating and developing OER with international partners
– OER metaphors for ELT resources development
• Oxford-managed and -created content in FLAX (The Flexible
Language Acquisition project)
– Research corpora & Teaching podcasts
• OpenSpires project at Oxford
– Creative commons-licensed content
• Building language collections in FLAX with OER
– Linking to open linguistic tools and content
– Creating interactivity in your collections

TOETOE International: FLAX Weaving with O
(HEA Case Study)
• Oxford, UK – project home University of Oxford IT Services
• Vancouver, Canada – OpenEd 2012 conference
• Beijing, China – GLoCALL 2012, British Council, Publishers
• Seoul, Korea – Korea University
• Hamilton, New Zealand – FLAX, University of Waikato
• Hanoi, Vietnam – Hanoi Open University
• Delhi, India – Delhi University
• Southampton, UK – LLAS eLearning symposium
• Sao Paulo, Brazil – Association for Distance Ed. in Brazil (ABED)
• Montreal, Canada – Concordia University
• Nottingham, UK – OER13 / BALEAP conferences
• Liverpool, UK – IATEFL 2013 conference

http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources

https://openeducationalresources.pbworks.com/w/page/24836480/Home

TOETOE Technology for Open English Toying with Open E-r
Alannah Fitzgerald's blog
http://www.alannahfitzgerald.org/394/

Love is a stranger in an open car to tempt you
in and drive you far away...toward OEP
http://www.alannahfitzgerald.org/love-is-a-stranger-in-an-open-car-who-tempts-you-in-and-drives-you-far-away/

OER metaphors for ELT resources
development
• Contexts
• Confucian dynamism in the Chinese ELT context
• The English language skyline in South Korea
• Vietnam’s Open University rising dragon
• Emancipatory English in India
• Braving OER battles in Brazil
• Resources
• Oh, what a BAWE! The British Academic Written English corpus
• Re-using Oxford OpenSpires content in podcast corpora

https://openeducationalresources.pbworks.com/w/page/2483648http://blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk/melissa/2013/03/23/licetne-anglice-loqui/

University of Oxford OER
http://openspires.oucs.ox.ac.uk/resources/index.html#posters
10

http://www.slideshare.net/tbirdcymru/itunes-u-corporate-channel-of-free-educational-resources

Training Videos for FLAX on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Ox6RCVWy0

Learning Collocations in FLAX:
in response to ‘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.

FLAX British Academic Written English (BA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26i_Y146GOs

British Academic Written English corpus:
browse by genre or discipline

BAWE sub corpus wordlists

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

Search and store collocations

Retrieve and save collocations

Collocational links to further resources

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

Word lists:
general, academic, specific, key

FLAX Do-It-Yourself Podcast Corpora with
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si24d3Z-8nQ

Build YouTube into your FLAX collections

FLAX Do-It-Yourself Podcast Corpora 2:
Building interactivity into your collections
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fysDzYjbhh0

Developing podcast activities in FLAX

Close exercises in FLAX

Scrambled sentences in FLAX

Drag ‘n’ Drop exercises in FLAX

Training Videos for FLAX on YouKu
http://www.youku.com/playlist_show/id_18115224.html

Open Dissemination Channels for ELT
Russell Stannard - Teacher Training Videos
http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com

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

Open Content, Practices, Communities
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edibleoffice/5391049006/

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