1. Crowdsourcing in language learning and teaching:
“small” languages’ achievements
Katerina Zourou, Ph.D.
Director, Web2Learn, Greece
Funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework
Programme of the European Union
EnetCollect: European
Network for Combining
Language Learning with
Crowdsourcing Techniques

2. Can you name a event in
Iceland that in your opinion was
crowd based?

3. From https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/opeds/opinion/2016/06/23/football_ecstasy_in_iceland/

4. Can you name a event in Iceland
that in your opinion was crowd
sourced?

5. “Engagement of individuals who voluntarily offer their
knowledge to a knowledge seeker (an organisation, a
company, etc. Howe (2006).
Howe, J. (2006). "The Rise of Crowdsourcing". Wired, 14 (6)
https://www.wired.com/2006/06/crowds/
Crowdsourcing: short definition

6. Forging the Icelandic constitution:
civic participation onsite…
Debating the constitution with (l-r) constitution activist and lawyer Katrín Oddsdóttir,
filmmaker Eileen Jerrett and Alex Prichard in Reykjavik. Info from http://theconversation.com/icelands-
crowd-sourced-constitution-hope-for-disillusioned-voters-everywhere-67803

7. … and online

8. Community location: physical?

9. 15
Community location: exclusively online?
https://stackexchange.com

10. Community location: blended?
Meetup communities

13. What can we learn for the learning
and teaching of languages?

14. Some crowdsourced
language-related projects

15. 1st example: TedTalks
https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity?language=en

17. Subtitles of TedTalks produced in a crowdsourcing
fashion
https://www.ted.com/participate/translate

18. A platform for crowdsourcing language materials

21. Amara’s collaborative dashboard

22. 2nd example: crowdsourcing language
teaching materials
Note: indicative example. Work in progress- still lots to be done

25. => Emphasis on practices; hands-on approach for educators
https://oepscotland.org
3rd example: crowdsourcing language teaching curricula
https://oepscotland.org

26. => Teacher engagement; re-use; localisation
http://www.tess-india.edu.in

27. • On a global level: shouldn’t we embrace new spaces
and modes of connectivity more actively?
• How to valorize educational practice using Open
Educational Resources (OER) without downplaying the
value of licensed materials?
• Shouldn’t we reconsider the role of communities in
language education in the open?
• Shouldn’t we get inspired from learning and
collaboration « in the wild » to enrich the language
classroom practice?
Few ideas to discuss

28. Thankyou!
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@web2learn_eu
Slides available at
https://www.slideshare.net/Web2Learn_eu