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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

2. Coral
Coral by flightsaber
http://www.flickr.com/photos/flightsaber/2204190345
CC BY-NC 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

3. Curl
http://www.flickr.com/photos/19melissa68/4479055267/

4. Corelle
Corelle_Snowflake Garland Cream &; Sugar with Salt & Paper (1974) by catface3
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jfholloway/1456419986/in/photostream
CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

5. Working on the cattle in the corrals.jpg by Alister.flint
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Working_on_the_cattle_in_the_corrals.jpg
CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)
Corral

6. OER in COERLL

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%

9. “Why Textbooks Cost So Much”
The Economist August 16, 2015

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

14. OER are …
flexible
accessible
creative
empowering
inclusive
motivating & engaging
pedagogical
authentic
complete

15. “Gratis” vs. “Libre”
Photo source: free (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonx/2698947622/) / tonx
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonx/) / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)

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.

22. Copyright
“All rights reserved”

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
File:Tyler.stefanich_Creative_Commons_Swag_Contest_2007_2_(by).jpg found at
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki / BY-SA (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)

25. CC Licenses

26. http://search.creativecommons.org
CC Search

31. OER Repositories
NFLRC.org

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

34. Open Textbooks

35. Open Courseware & Learning
Communities

36. New LCTL OER Projects
Reality Czech (Beginner)
Lingua da gente (Beginner to Intermediate)
Ki’che’ (Beginner to Advanced)

46. Open Corpora
Spanish in Texas Corpus

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?

50. What are your questions?
Q & A Session