Beyond Content: Open Educational Practices for English Language Education
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
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
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.
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
Editor's Notes
Photo by http://www.flickr.com/photos/jitterousperth/5021030184/
Well-resourced – ou – ebooks, lectures and more – not able to identify individuals as made by teams Podcasts – oxford – 40% cc – highlighting stars China – Nottingham – campus at Ningbo instead of having to use youtube which is blocked uNow Representing the ethos of the institutions The best marketing is great learning material – Martin Bean
A new method of giving individual items individual licenses in the metadata is apparently on its way