Bridging Informal MOOCs & Formal English for Academic Purposes Programmes wit...Alannah Fitzgerald
Presented at the Teaching and Language Corpora (TaLC) Conference in Lancaster on July 23, 2014. Based on collaborative work with the FLAX Language Project (Shaoqun Wu and Ian Witten) and the Language Centre at Queen Mary University of London (Martin Barge, William Tweddle, Saima Sherazi).
FLAX: Flexible Language Acquisition with Open Data-Driven LearningAlannah Fitzgerald
This document discusses the FLAX Language System, an open-source tool for open data-driven language learning. It describes the research collaboration behind FLAX and how it uses corpus-based approaches and open educational resources to build interactive language collections. Examples are given of domain-specific law collections in FLAX, which include different media types and are designed for non-expert language learners and teachers. Research is also discussed on evaluating the impact of FLAX collections and on developing the interface between open resources and academic English.
Linked Data and cultural heritage data: an overview of the approaches from Eu...The European Library
Europeana provides access to digital resources from a wide range of cultural heritage institutions all across Europe. In order to support Europeana, a wide network of organizations collaborates in data integration activities. The European Library plays the role of library-domain aggregator for Europeana, and its activities include also being a gateway to the collections and data of Europe’s national and research libraries, operating on the principle of open data for re-use.
The Europeana Network addresses its data integration challenges by leveraging on Linked Data and the Semantic Web. Its approach to data integration is based in a single data model, the Europeana Data Model, which embraces the Semantic Web principles to integrate the various data models and ontologies used in cultural heritage data.
The paradigm of Linked Data, brings many new challenges to libraries. The generic nature of data representation used in Linked Data, while allowing any community to manipulate the data, also opens many paths for implementation, with no clear optimal choice for libraries. The European Library leverages on its operational infrastructure to make library data available. It maintains The European Library Open Dataset, which is derived from the data aggregated from member libraries, and made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal license, in order to promote and facilitate its reuse by any community.
Extensive linking is performed in the preparation of The European Library Open Dataset. It relies on Information Extraction and Data Mining to establish links to external open datasets, covering the most prominent entities types present in library data: persons, corporate bodies, places, concepts, intellectual works and manifestations.
The European Library also applies a linked data approach for intellectual property rights clearance processes, for supporting mass digitization projects. This approach is applied in the within the European ARROW rights infrastructure .
Sharing an Open Methodology for Building Domain-specific Corpora for EAP Alannah Fitzgerald
Presented at the EAP and Corpora BALEAP Professional Issues Meeting in Coventry, UK on June 21st 2014. Research and Development Collaboration with the FLAX Language Project (University of Waikato), The Open Educational Resources Research Hub (The UK Open University) and the Language Centre at Queen Mary University of London (with Martin Barge, William Tweddle and Saima Sherazi).
Developing Open Access Content into Academic English Resources for Data-Drive...Alannah Fitzgerald
Presented with Chris Mansfield at the IATEFL Conference in Birmingham, United Kingdom on April 15, 2016 as part of the Interactive Language Learning Fair
Converging cultures of open in language resources developmentAlannah Fitzgerald
Presented at the Open Educational Resources (OER16) Conference on 19 April, 2016 in Edinburgh, UK
https://oer16.oerconf.org/sessions/converging-cultures-of-open-in-language-resources-development-1156/
Supporting User's Exploration of Digital Libraries, Suedl 2012 workshop proce...pathsproject
Workshop proceedings from the International workshop on Supporting Users Exploration of Digital Libraries, SUEDL 2012 which was held at TPDL 2012 (the international conference on Theory and Practice in Digital Libraries), Paphos, Cyprus, September 2012.
The aim of the workshop was to stimulate collaboration from experts and stakeholders in Digital Libraries, Cultural Heritage, Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval in order to explore methods and strategies to support exploration of Digital Libraries, beyond the white box paradigm of search and click.
The proceedings includes:
"Browsing Europeana - Opportunities and Challenges', David Haskiya
"Query re-writing using shallow language processing effects', Anna Mastora and Sarantos Kapidakis
"Visualising Television Heritage" Johan Ooman et al,
"Providing suitable information access for new users of Digital Libraries", Rike Brecht et al
"Exploring Pelagios: a Visual Browser for Geo-tagged datasets" Rainer Simon et al
Bridging Informal MOOCs & Formal English for Academic Purposes Programmes wit...Alannah Fitzgerald
Presented at the Teaching and Language Corpora (TaLC) Conference in Lancaster on July 23, 2014. Based on collaborative work with the FLAX Language Project (Shaoqun Wu and Ian Witten) and the Language Centre at Queen Mary University of London (Martin Barge, William Tweddle, Saima Sherazi).
FLAX: Flexible Language Acquisition with Open Data-Driven LearningAlannah Fitzgerald
This document discusses the FLAX Language System, an open-source tool for open data-driven language learning. It describes the research collaboration behind FLAX and how it uses corpus-based approaches and open educational resources to build interactive language collections. Examples are given of domain-specific law collections in FLAX, which include different media types and are designed for non-expert language learners and teachers. Research is also discussed on evaluating the impact of FLAX collections and on developing the interface between open resources and academic English.
Linked Data and cultural heritage data: an overview of the approaches from Eu...The European Library
Europeana provides access to digital resources from a wide range of cultural heritage institutions all across Europe. In order to support Europeana, a wide network of organizations collaborates in data integration activities. The European Library plays the role of library-domain aggregator for Europeana, and its activities include also being a gateway to the collections and data of Europe’s national and research libraries, operating on the principle of open data for re-use.
The Europeana Network addresses its data integration challenges by leveraging on Linked Data and the Semantic Web. Its approach to data integration is based in a single data model, the Europeana Data Model, which embraces the Semantic Web principles to integrate the various data models and ontologies used in cultural heritage data.
The paradigm of Linked Data, brings many new challenges to libraries. The generic nature of data representation used in Linked Data, while allowing any community to manipulate the data, also opens many paths for implementation, with no clear optimal choice for libraries. The European Library leverages on its operational infrastructure to make library data available. It maintains The European Library Open Dataset, which is derived from the data aggregated from member libraries, and made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal license, in order to promote and facilitate its reuse by any community.
Extensive linking is performed in the preparation of The European Library Open Dataset. It relies on Information Extraction and Data Mining to establish links to external open datasets, covering the most prominent entities types present in library data: persons, corporate bodies, places, concepts, intellectual works and manifestations.
The European Library also applies a linked data approach for intellectual property rights clearance processes, for supporting mass digitization projects. This approach is applied in the within the European ARROW rights infrastructure .
Sharing an Open Methodology for Building Domain-specific Corpora for EAP Alannah Fitzgerald
Presented at the EAP and Corpora BALEAP Professional Issues Meeting in Coventry, UK on June 21st 2014. Research and Development Collaboration with the FLAX Language Project (University of Waikato), The Open Educational Resources Research Hub (The UK Open University) and the Language Centre at Queen Mary University of London (with Martin Barge, William Tweddle and Saima Sherazi).
Developing Open Access Content into Academic English Resources for Data-Drive...Alannah Fitzgerald
Presented with Chris Mansfield at the IATEFL Conference in Birmingham, United Kingdom on April 15, 2016 as part of the Interactive Language Learning Fair
Converging cultures of open in language resources developmentAlannah Fitzgerald
Presented at the Open Educational Resources (OER16) Conference on 19 April, 2016 in Edinburgh, UK
https://oer16.oerconf.org/sessions/converging-cultures-of-open-in-language-resources-development-1156/
Supporting User's Exploration of Digital Libraries, Suedl 2012 workshop proce...pathsproject
Workshop proceedings from the International workshop on Supporting Users Exploration of Digital Libraries, SUEDL 2012 which was held at TPDL 2012 (the international conference on Theory and Practice in Digital Libraries), Paphos, Cyprus, September 2012.
The aim of the workshop was to stimulate collaboration from experts and stakeholders in Digital Libraries, Cultural Heritage, Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval in order to explore methods and strategies to support exploration of Digital Libraries, beyond the white box paradigm of search and click.
The proceedings includes:
"Browsing Europeana - Opportunities and Challenges', David Haskiya
"Query re-writing using shallow language processing effects', Anna Mastora and Sarantos Kapidakis
"Visualising Television Heritage" Johan Ooman et al,
"Providing suitable information access for new users of Digital Libraries", Rike Brecht et al
"Exploring Pelagios: a Visual Browser for Geo-tagged datasets" Rainer Simon et al
Customer Experience - On the Web, In the Library, In the CommunityDavid King
Customer experience is a strange brew of structure, community, and customers. Today’s savvy librarians need to focus on creating digital and physical experiences for customers so that they can quickly find information, make decisions, or participate. Librarians need to create experiences that visitors not only remember, but share with their friends. David Lee King breaks down the customer experience in a way that will help you remain an indispensable focal point of your community.
People don’t want just goods or services from a business anymore – they want unique, engaging experiences built around those goods and services. It’s the same for your library. Our patrons are looking for more than a book – they can find that at Walmart and via their favorite mobile device. They want a unique, engaging experience built around “your stuff.”
The document is a slide presentation by James Baker about digital history. It discusses how digital historians work with born-digital records and data, which require different skills than traditional paper records. It highlights challenges like researching the 1990s when most records were digital, and the need to understand old file formats and operating systems. It also describes James Baker's teaching of digital history skills to undergraduate students at the University of Sussex.
Queen Mary University of London Collection SLidesmartinbarge
This document describes a project to create an online collection of law PhD thesis abstracts using the FLAX tools to build language learning activities for a pre-sessional English law course. The process involved obtaining permissions to use the abstracts, selecting and uploading them to FLAX, building the collection, creating various activities including cloze tests, sentence matching, and scrambled sentences. Lessons learned included selecting appropriately lengthy texts, consulting the FLAX team on procedures, and allocating sufficient time to build and test the collection.
Study: The Future of VR, AR and Self-Driving CarsLinkedIn
We asked LinkedIn members worldwide about their levels of interest in the latest wave of technology: whether they’re using wearables, and whether they intend to buy self-driving cars and VR headsets as they become available. We asked them too about their attitudes to technology and to the growing role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the devices that they use. The answers were fascinating – and in many cases, surprising.
This SlideShare explores the full results of this study, including detailed market-by-market breakdowns of intention levels for each technology – and how attitudes change with age, location and seniority level. If you’re marketing a tech brand – or planning to use VR and wearables to reach a professional audience – then these are insights you won’t want to miss.
Workshop presentation given at the BALEAP biennial conference (The Janus Moment in EAP: Revisiting the Past and Building the Future) in Nottingham on April 20, 2013 by Martin Barge, Alannah Fitzgerald and William Tweddle. http://baleap.org.uk/events/event-6/
Europeana Tech 2015 in Paris:
https://pro.europeana.eu/event/europeanatech-2015
The National Library of Wales will give practical examples of how implementing the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) can bring wider benefits to your institution through the improved discoverability, visibility and use of heritage collections.
Poster available at: https://www.dropbox.com/s/tqupa28h8kn8vog/iiif_poster_final.pdf?dl=0
Video available from:
https://vimeo.com/121772146
This document summarizes a presentation given at the British Library about opening up their digital collections. It discusses what digital collections are, examples from the British Library including collections of books, newspapers, maps and more. It covers challenges around copyright and access, and examples of projects people have done with openly licensed digital content from the Library including visualizations, annotations and extracting text for analysis. The presentation aims to explore how the Library can better support access and reuse of their digital collections.
Presentation given at IIIF Showcase seminar on 17 March 2017 at National Library of Scotland outlining the Library's use of IIIF and its plans for further development and adoption of the Framework
ACRL 2017: Academic Libraries, Filtering, & the Tyranny of ChoiceElizabeth Namei
Choices abound in all aspects of life, from where we shop, to what we shop for, to how we obtain and consume media, food and information. Variety is ubiquitous and expected. Likewise, academic libraries are also providing users with an array of choices: different sources, formats, search tools and even study spaces and service points. Research has found, paradoxically, that more choice often leads to less satisfaction. Libraries have introduced various filters (relevance algorithms, advanced search forms, format limiters, etc.) to help users navigate the abundance of choices being presented to them. By filters we mean mechanisms for narrowing, customizing, or even expanding options, depending on the parameters of the need at hand. Filters are also implemented behind the scenes (approval plans, short term loans, etc.) to help streamline library workflow and productivity.
This paper presents the results of a mixed method study aimed at gaining a better understanding of the impact of “filters” on library workflows, collections, services and users. We will explore the potential for automated filters to have unintended consequences and will present recommendations for how filters might be adapted and harnessed to enhance the overall library user experience.
Moving from Niche to Mainstream: the Evolution of the UCD Digital LibraryUCD Library
The UCD Digital Library began as a niche project focused on digitizing select special collections materials. Early criteria for selection included available technology, preservation needs, existing digitization projects, user demand, and metadata availability. Over time, drivers like centenary initiatives, strategic university objectives, and increasing digital technologies pushed the Digital Library towards mainstreaming and expanding its stakeholder base to include additional repositories, researchers, teachers, and schools. While growing functionality created new opportunities, managing expectations of what digitization and services involve remained important. The Digital Library transitioned from its initial niche role to increased engagement both within and outside the university.
Empowering Global Research in Biodiversity: The Biodiversity Heritage LibraryMartin Kalfatovic
Martin R. Kalfatovic is the Program Director of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), which is a global consortium that makes biodiversity literature openly available online. Over the past 10 years, BHL has digitized over 51 million pages from over 114,000 titles. It provides free access to biodiversity literature from the 15th-21st centuries and receives on average over 100,000 users per month from around the world. BHL aims to improve research methodology by making this historical literature openly accessible and searchable online.
LIBER Webinar: Are the FAIR Data Principles really fair?LIBER Europe
The FAIR Data Principles are a hot topic in research data managment. Their adoption within the H2020 funding programme means researchers now have to pay much more attention to how their share, publish and archive their data.
In this light, how can libraries help their research communities implement the FAIR principles? And write better data management plans?
This questions were addressed in a LIBER webinar containing some guidance and reflections on the principles themselves. Presented by Alastair Dunning, Head Research Data Services at the TU Delft (hosts of the 4TU.Centre for Research Data), it is based on a study of 37 data repositories (from subject specific repositories, to generic data archives, to national infrastructures), seeing how far they comply with each of the individual facets of the Data principles.
A guide to using Europeana for education Europeana
This guide introduces the basic principles of searching for and using Europeana’s content in education. It covers topics like copyright and licenses that allow educational reuse, and how you should credit Europeana content when you use it. It also gives an introduction to the Europeana APIs. It is of use to educators across all subjects, students and lifelong learners, developers of educational resources and educational publishers. Find out more: http://pro.europeana.eu/use-our-data/education
Europeana4Education at Open Education Week 2017 - webinar slidesEuropeana
Europeana4Education: discover how digital cultural heritage collections can enrich your educational resources and inspire learners. 29 March 2017.
These slides introduce:
- The diversity of digitised cultural heritage content that can be found on Europeana, and its educational value.
- The free tools Europeana provides to enable access our content (including our manual download and the Europeana APIs).
- The financial support Europeana can offer in the development of educational resources featuring our content.
Este documento apresenta as diretrizes do Ministério da Saúde sobre a atenção à saúde da mulher no climatério/menopausa. Ele discute a evolução das políticas de saúde para mulheres nesta fase da vida, abordando temas como a humanização e ética no atendimento, aspectos psicossociais, fisiologia, manifestações clínicas, promoção da saúde, saúde reprodutiva, doenças comuns e opções terapêuticas. O manual tem o objetivo de orientar profissionais de
It security for libraries part 3 - disaster recovery Brian Pichman
A very important topic in today's data age is Disaster Recovery. With the need for high up time in our environments, your environment must be prepared for the worse. From basic internet outages to full system failure, how you plan will determine how quickly you can recover. See more details below. Topics/Agenda: * Learn the key infrastructure components in mitigating risks as it relates to data loss or system failure * Identify the main points to include within a disaster plan
Emerging technology trends in libraries for 2017David King
The document discusses emerging technology trends in libraries for 2017, including the Internet of Things, big data, mobility, augmented and virtual reality, makerspaces, wearable computing, drones, and cloud computing. It explores how these technologies could impact libraries and what opportunities they may present for libraries to better serve their users. Examples and images are provided for many of the trends to help illustrate the concepts. The document concludes by thanking the reader.
This document summarizes Alannah Fitzgerald's research which aims to identify open tools and resources for academic English, including the communities that develop and use them. The research also seeks to define what openness means in the context of academic English resource development and use. It involves several communities, including academic English practitioners and open source software developers. Design-based research methods are used through iterative development and collaboration. The research also draws on social interface theory to analyze points of intersection between communities where sharing of resources can enable learning or cause disruptions. Previous case studies involved collaboration with projects like FLAX, Durham University, and the University of Oxford.
Customer Experience - On the Web, In the Library, In the CommunityDavid King
Customer experience is a strange brew of structure, community, and customers. Today’s savvy librarians need to focus on creating digital and physical experiences for customers so that they can quickly find information, make decisions, or participate. Librarians need to create experiences that visitors not only remember, but share with their friends. David Lee King breaks down the customer experience in a way that will help you remain an indispensable focal point of your community.
People don’t want just goods or services from a business anymore – they want unique, engaging experiences built around those goods and services. It’s the same for your library. Our patrons are looking for more than a book – they can find that at Walmart and via their favorite mobile device. They want a unique, engaging experience built around “your stuff.”
The document is a slide presentation by James Baker about digital history. It discusses how digital historians work with born-digital records and data, which require different skills than traditional paper records. It highlights challenges like researching the 1990s when most records were digital, and the need to understand old file formats and operating systems. It also describes James Baker's teaching of digital history skills to undergraduate students at the University of Sussex.
Queen Mary University of London Collection SLidesmartinbarge
This document describes a project to create an online collection of law PhD thesis abstracts using the FLAX tools to build language learning activities for a pre-sessional English law course. The process involved obtaining permissions to use the abstracts, selecting and uploading them to FLAX, building the collection, creating various activities including cloze tests, sentence matching, and scrambled sentences. Lessons learned included selecting appropriately lengthy texts, consulting the FLAX team on procedures, and allocating sufficient time to build and test the collection.
Study: The Future of VR, AR and Self-Driving CarsLinkedIn
We asked LinkedIn members worldwide about their levels of interest in the latest wave of technology: whether they’re using wearables, and whether they intend to buy self-driving cars and VR headsets as they become available. We asked them too about their attitudes to technology and to the growing role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the devices that they use. The answers were fascinating – and in many cases, surprising.
This SlideShare explores the full results of this study, including detailed market-by-market breakdowns of intention levels for each technology – and how attitudes change with age, location and seniority level. If you’re marketing a tech brand – or planning to use VR and wearables to reach a professional audience – then these are insights you won’t want to miss.
Workshop presentation given at the BALEAP biennial conference (The Janus Moment in EAP: Revisiting the Past and Building the Future) in Nottingham on April 20, 2013 by Martin Barge, Alannah Fitzgerald and William Tweddle. http://baleap.org.uk/events/event-6/
Europeana Tech 2015 in Paris:
https://pro.europeana.eu/event/europeanatech-2015
The National Library of Wales will give practical examples of how implementing the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) can bring wider benefits to your institution through the improved discoverability, visibility and use of heritage collections.
Poster available at: https://www.dropbox.com/s/tqupa28h8kn8vog/iiif_poster_final.pdf?dl=0
Video available from:
https://vimeo.com/121772146
This document summarizes a presentation given at the British Library about opening up their digital collections. It discusses what digital collections are, examples from the British Library including collections of books, newspapers, maps and more. It covers challenges around copyright and access, and examples of projects people have done with openly licensed digital content from the Library including visualizations, annotations and extracting text for analysis. The presentation aims to explore how the Library can better support access and reuse of their digital collections.
Presentation given at IIIF Showcase seminar on 17 March 2017 at National Library of Scotland outlining the Library's use of IIIF and its plans for further development and adoption of the Framework
ACRL 2017: Academic Libraries, Filtering, & the Tyranny of ChoiceElizabeth Namei
Choices abound in all aspects of life, from where we shop, to what we shop for, to how we obtain and consume media, food and information. Variety is ubiquitous and expected. Likewise, academic libraries are also providing users with an array of choices: different sources, formats, search tools and even study spaces and service points. Research has found, paradoxically, that more choice often leads to less satisfaction. Libraries have introduced various filters (relevance algorithms, advanced search forms, format limiters, etc.) to help users navigate the abundance of choices being presented to them. By filters we mean mechanisms for narrowing, customizing, or even expanding options, depending on the parameters of the need at hand. Filters are also implemented behind the scenes (approval plans, short term loans, etc.) to help streamline library workflow and productivity.
This paper presents the results of a mixed method study aimed at gaining a better understanding of the impact of “filters” on library workflows, collections, services and users. We will explore the potential for automated filters to have unintended consequences and will present recommendations for how filters might be adapted and harnessed to enhance the overall library user experience.
Moving from Niche to Mainstream: the Evolution of the UCD Digital LibraryUCD Library
The UCD Digital Library began as a niche project focused on digitizing select special collections materials. Early criteria for selection included available technology, preservation needs, existing digitization projects, user demand, and metadata availability. Over time, drivers like centenary initiatives, strategic university objectives, and increasing digital technologies pushed the Digital Library towards mainstreaming and expanding its stakeholder base to include additional repositories, researchers, teachers, and schools. While growing functionality created new opportunities, managing expectations of what digitization and services involve remained important. The Digital Library transitioned from its initial niche role to increased engagement both within and outside the university.
Empowering Global Research in Biodiversity: The Biodiversity Heritage LibraryMartin Kalfatovic
Martin R. Kalfatovic is the Program Director of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), which is a global consortium that makes biodiversity literature openly available online. Over the past 10 years, BHL has digitized over 51 million pages from over 114,000 titles. It provides free access to biodiversity literature from the 15th-21st centuries and receives on average over 100,000 users per month from around the world. BHL aims to improve research methodology by making this historical literature openly accessible and searchable online.
LIBER Webinar: Are the FAIR Data Principles really fair?LIBER Europe
The FAIR Data Principles are a hot topic in research data managment. Their adoption within the H2020 funding programme means researchers now have to pay much more attention to how their share, publish and archive their data.
In this light, how can libraries help their research communities implement the FAIR principles? And write better data management plans?
This questions were addressed in a LIBER webinar containing some guidance and reflections on the principles themselves. Presented by Alastair Dunning, Head Research Data Services at the TU Delft (hosts of the 4TU.Centre for Research Data), it is based on a study of 37 data repositories (from subject specific repositories, to generic data archives, to national infrastructures), seeing how far they comply with each of the individual facets of the Data principles.
A guide to using Europeana for education Europeana
This guide introduces the basic principles of searching for and using Europeana’s content in education. It covers topics like copyright and licenses that allow educational reuse, and how you should credit Europeana content when you use it. It also gives an introduction to the Europeana APIs. It is of use to educators across all subjects, students and lifelong learners, developers of educational resources and educational publishers. Find out more: http://pro.europeana.eu/use-our-data/education
Europeana4Education at Open Education Week 2017 - webinar slidesEuropeana
Europeana4Education: discover how digital cultural heritage collections can enrich your educational resources and inspire learners. 29 March 2017.
These slides introduce:
- The diversity of digitised cultural heritage content that can be found on Europeana, and its educational value.
- The free tools Europeana provides to enable access our content (including our manual download and the Europeana APIs).
- The financial support Europeana can offer in the development of educational resources featuring our content.
Este documento apresenta as diretrizes do Ministério da Saúde sobre a atenção à saúde da mulher no climatério/menopausa. Ele discute a evolução das políticas de saúde para mulheres nesta fase da vida, abordando temas como a humanização e ética no atendimento, aspectos psicossociais, fisiologia, manifestações clínicas, promoção da saúde, saúde reprodutiva, doenças comuns e opções terapêuticas. O manual tem o objetivo de orientar profissionais de
It security for libraries part 3 - disaster recovery Brian Pichman
A very important topic in today's data age is Disaster Recovery. With the need for high up time in our environments, your environment must be prepared for the worse. From basic internet outages to full system failure, how you plan will determine how quickly you can recover. See more details below. Topics/Agenda: * Learn the key infrastructure components in mitigating risks as it relates to data loss or system failure * Identify the main points to include within a disaster plan
Emerging technology trends in libraries for 2017David King
The document discusses emerging technology trends in libraries for 2017, including the Internet of Things, big data, mobility, augmented and virtual reality, makerspaces, wearable computing, drones, and cloud computing. It explores how these technologies could impact libraries and what opportunities they may present for libraries to better serve their users. Examples and images are provided for many of the trends to help illustrate the concepts. The document concludes by thanking the reader.
This document summarizes Alannah Fitzgerald's research which aims to identify open tools and resources for academic English, including the communities that develop and use them. The research also seeks to define what openness means in the context of academic English resource development and use. It involves several communities, including academic English practitioners and open source software developers. Design-based research methods are used through iterative development and collaboration. The research also draws on social interface theory to analyze points of intersection between communities where sharing of resources can enable learning or cause disruptions. Previous case studies involved collaboration with projects like FLAX, Durham University, and the University of Oxford.
This document outlines Alannah Fitzgerald's research which aims to identify open academic English resources and tools, and how openness is defined in this context. The research involves communities developing English for academic purposes, open source software, corpus linguistics, MOOCs, and open educational resources. Design-based research is used to iteratively improve interventions through case studies. Social interface theory is also discussed as it relates to points of intersection between fields where social discontinuities may occur both positively and negatively. Current work involves developing domain-specific language collections for MOOCs and academic English for law.
Resources at the Interface of Openness for Academic EnglishAlannah Fitzgerald
Presentation given at the Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN) Research Track at the OpenCourseWare Consortium Global Conference 2014 in Ljubljana, Slovenia on April 24, 2014.
FLAX Weaving with Oxford Open Educational Resources: Open Practices for Engli...Alannah Fitzgerald
Workshop delivered at the e-Learning Symposium on the 25th of January, 2013 with the Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies at the University of Southampton.
Flexible Open Language Education for a MultiLingual WorldAlannah Fitzgerald
The document discusses FLAX, a multilingual software for interactive language learning. FLAX allows for the creation of language collections containing words, phrases, collocations and other materials from corpora. These collections can be accessed through simple interfaces and include features like searching, saving words, and building activities. FLAX collections have been created for topics like academic English and virology using sources such as podcast transcripts, online articles and academic blogs. FLAX aims to provide flexible open language resources and can be used across different platforms including websites, computers and MOOCs.
Downstream with Open Educational Resources and Practices: rEAPing the rewards...Alannah Fitzgerald
This document discusses open educational resources and practices related to language learning. It describes several ongoing projects including the Open Educational Resources Research Hub, the FLAX Language Project at Waikato University, Open Oxford resources, and the British Academic Written English Corpus. It also discusses using open resources to provide linguistic support for MOOCs and domain-specific vocabulary. The document advocates for collaboration between subject matter experts and writing teachers to help students develop discipline-specific academic writing skills. Overall, the document promotes open sharing and reuse of educational resources to support language learning across formal and informal contexts.
FLAX is multilingual software for interactive language learning that allows users to build collections of words, phrases, audio/video transcripts and activities. It provides simple interfaces and tools to search, save, and interact with language data. Collections can be built collaboratively and hosted on various platforms including websites and learning management systems. The FLAX project aims to develop flexible open resources for language learning across languages and abilities.
Academic English With The Electronic Theses Online Service (EThOS) At The Bri...Martha Brown
This document provides an overview of a workshop on mining open access PhD theses from the British Library using the Electronic Thesis Online Service (EThOS). It discusses the FLAX language research project, EThOS, reuse of digital collections, abstracts, and tools for search, collocations, word lists and lexical bundles. It also links to the Wikipedia corpus in FLAX and discusses Wikification.
This document discusses using pedagogic corpora in English language teaching. It introduces pedagogic corpora as an alternative to directly transferring corpus linguistics research methods to the classroom. Pedagogic corpora are compiled with thematic relevance and recontextualization for authentication. The document also describes tools for annotating pedagogy in corpora and integrating corpus activities into English language and content-based instruction.
Oh, what a BAWE! The British Academic Written English corpusAlannah Fitzgerald
This document discusses the British Academic Written English (BAWE) corpus and resources available for analyzing it. It provides an overview of the BAWE corpus, describing the genres of writing it contains and interfaces like FLAX, Sketch Engine, and Word Tree that allow searching and analyzing the corpus. It also discusses how the BAWE corpus can help understand academic genres and provide models of student academic writing for English for Academic Purposes teaching and learning.
AncientGeek Primary Sources Powering Historical Language LearningKatie Robinson
This document summarizes the development of an online learning environment for ancient languages called AncientGeek. It uses primary source texts and interactive exercises like alignment and dependency parsing to engage users. User testing found higher engagement and retention compared to quizzing. The environment aims to make original texts accessible to beginners through simplification and localization.
Open English Language Resources and Practices for Professional and Academic S...Alannah Fitzgerald
This document summarizes key topics in open educational resources and practices for professional and academic settings. It discusses changes in higher education including the rise of MOOCs and OERs. It also describes open source language development projects like the FLAX language project. Other sections cover using MOOCs for domain-specific linguistic support, design thinking, creative commons licensing, digital scholarship, and open communities/content.
eMargin Presentation given to Skills Funding AgencyRDUES
Presentation on the eMargin collaborative text annotation tool given to the Skills Funding Agency. Also contains description of AHRC Knowledge Transfer Fellowship project, working with A Level English Language students.
O 083 LibreTexts: Building, maintaining and sustaining a community OER ProjectJoshua Halpern
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2) CALL has evolved through structural, communicative, and integrative phases associated with different pedagogical approaches and roles for learners.
3) Common CALL activities include quizzes, exercises, games, simulations, and online communication, using both CALL-specific and generic software as well as web-based programs.
1) Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) originated from computer-assisted instruction to focus on student-centered learning using computers.
2) CALL has evolved through structural, communicative, and integrative phases associated with different pedagogical approaches and roles for learners.
3) Common CALL activities include quizzes, exercises, games, simulations, and online communication, using both CALL-specific and generic software as well as web-based programs.
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Flexible, Free and Open Data-Driven Learning for the Masses (MOOCs)
1. Flexible, Free and Open Data-
Driven Learning for the
Masses
Alannah Fitzgerald
http://maxpixel.freegreatpicture.com/photo-1742679
2. MINING & LINKING OPEN CONTENT
FOR DATA DRIVEN LEARNING
FLAX Language Digital Library Project, University of Waikato, NZ
3. Data-Driven Learning
The metaphor that Johns evoked was one where
language is treated as empirical data and “every
student is a Sherlock Holmes”, investigating the
uses of linguistic data directly to assist with
language acquisition (Johns, 2002, p. 108).
5. The eBook of FLAX
“FLAX (Flexible Language Acquisition) is
both a vision and a tool that you can use for
language learning. The Web contains
innumerable language activities, quizzes,
and games, but they are fixed: the activities
are cast in stone and the material is chosen
by others. Our vision is to put the control
back where it belongs, in the hands of
teachers and learners.”
6. WHO ARE WE IN THIS FLAX
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
COLLABORATION?
7. FLAX Language at Waikato University
http://flax.nzdl.org FLAX image by permission of non-commercial reuse by Jane Galloway
8. FLAX Language Project at the
Greenstone Digital Library Lab,
Waikato University NZ
Professor Ian Witten
FLAX Project Lead
Dr Shaoqun Wu
FLAX Project Lead Researcher & Developer
9. Research on Open FLAX Collections
http://oerresearchhub.org/
Alannah Fitzgerald
Open Fellow with OERRH
FLAX Language & Open
Education Researcher
13. Google-esque Interface Designs
Designed for the non-expert corpus user, namely:
learners, teachers, subject academics, instructional
designers and language resource developers.
http://flax.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax?a=fp&sa=collAbout&c=collocations&if=flax
14. Link to the Collocation Learning System
with the Wikipedia Corpus in FLAX
(Wu, Li, Witten & Yu, 2016)
http://flax.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax?a=g&rt=r&sa=CollocationQuery&s=CollocationQuery&s1.title=&c=collocations&s1.threshold=
0.5&s1.startNum=0&s1.perPage=20&s1.sampleNum=10&s1.type=&s1.wordType=&s1.colloType=&s1.query=role&s1.dbName=Wikip
edia
18. FLAX TEAM Apps for Android via GooglePlay
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Android_robot_skateboardin
g.svg /
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Google_Play_Store.svg
19. FLAX Team on Google Play
https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=FLAX+TEAM&hl=en
20. FLAX Across Platforms
• FLAX Website flax.nzdl.org for hosting open online
language collections
• Building directly onto the Web with OER
• FLAX multilingual open-source software for download
• Set up your own FLAX server online or;
• Build collections offline for use on your PC
• FLAX Android app for download
• Interact with game-based FLAX collections while on the go
• FLAX for MOODLE plug-in for download
• FLAX for MOOC Platforms?
• FLAX in conjunction with translation technologies?
22. The eBook of FLAX
“FLAX enables teachers to build bespoke
libraries very easily. It is built upon powerful
digital library technology, and provides access to
vast linguistic resources containing countless
examples of actual, authentic, usage in
contemporary text. But teachers can also build
collections using their own material, focusing
on language learning in a particular domain
(e.g., business, law) or motivating students by
using text from a particular context (e.g.,
country or region, common interests).”
24. FLAX Academic English Collections
http://flax.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax?a=fp&sa=library
25. MOOC Research Participants
• CopyrightX (Harvard University – formerly an
edX MOOC, now a networked course)
• ContractsX (Harvard University with edX)
• English Common Law (University of London
with Coursera)
29. Languages spoken by MOOC learners
• English (95.71%), followed by increasingly
smaller numbers of participants who identified as
being able to speak fluent:
• Spanish (16.56%), French (12.88%), German
(8.59%), Italian (7.98%), Catalan (3.0%), Chinese,
Finnish, Gujarati, Swahili (1.84%), French Creole,
Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Luo, Norwegian,
Portuguese, Russian, Serbian (1.23%), Arabic,
Georgian, Slovak, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu,
Vietnamese (0.61%).
30. “When you want to find out how to express something in English what
resource(s) do you use? You can select more than one.”
Language Resources Informal learners (N=163) CopyrightX teachers (N=11)
Paper-based dictionaries 18.40% 18.18%
Online dictionaries 76.07% 100.00%
Online reference resources
(e.g. Wikipedia) 52.15% 81.82%
Search engines (e.g. Google,
using inverted commas ""
and asterisks * to search for
keywords/phrases for
language use) 57.67% 100.00%
Corpora / searchable web-
based language collections
(e.g. FLAX, WebCorp) 7.98% 0.00%
Grammar books 11.66% 9.09%
Language course books 1.84% 9.09%
Ask someone 31.90% 27.27%
Need nothing 2.45% 0.00%
42. Fitzgerald, A., Marin. M.J., Wu, S. & Witten, I.H.
(2017). Evaluating the Efficacy of the Digital
Commons for Scaling Data-Driven Learning. In
M. Carrier, R. M. Damerow, & K. M. Bailey (Eds.),
Digital Language Learning and Teaching:
Research, Theory, and Practice (pp. 38 – 51).
New York, NY: Routledge & TIRF.
43. The Digital Commons
Typically, the digital commons involves the
creation and distribution of informational
resources and technologies that have been
designed to stay in the digital commons using
various open licenses, including the GNU Public
License and the Creative Commons suite of
licenses (Wikipedia, 2016). One of the most
widely used informational resources developed
by and for the digital commons is Wikipedia.
44. Data Collection Procedure
• 52 students in the fourth year of the
Translation Degree program at the University
of Murcia (Spain) were selected as informants.
• All the students’ linguistic competence level
complied with the Common European
Framework of Reference for Languages
requirements for the B2 level.
45. Experimental & Control Groups
• The experimental group (16 informants organized
into four sub-groups) were requested to only
consult the FLAX English Common Law MOOC
collection as the single source of information to
draft their essays.
• The remaining 36 students (divided into nine
different sub-groups) would act as the control
group, following the traditional method for the
design and drafting of essays before this
experiment was carried out, that is, using any
information source available.
46. Term Average in each corpus
FLAX Corpus Non-FLAX Corpus
Terms Identified by
Themostat (A) (Drouin,
2003)
226 385
Corpus Size After
Reduction
16,939 16,264
Number of Topics (B) 4 9
Term Average (A/B) 56.5 42.77
Standardized
type/token ratio
35.3 38.63
47. Findings from Reuse Study
• According to the data, the members of the
experimental group appear to have acquired the
specialized terminology of the area better than those
in the control group, as attested by the higher term
average obtained by the texts in the FLAX-based corpus
(56.5) as opposed to the non-FLAX-based text
collection, at 13.73 points below
• However, the standardized type/token ratio assigned to
each set of texts, which is often indicative of the
richness of the vocabulary (the higher, the richer), is
lower for the FLAX-based texts, standing at 3 points
below the texts written by the control group
48. References
• Biber, D., Conrad, S., & Cortes, V. (2004). If you look at . . .: lexical bundles
in university teaching and textbooks. Applied Linguistics, 25, 371–405.
Biber, D. (2006). University Language, A corpus-based study of spoken and
written registers. John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
• Biber, D., Barbieri F. (2007). Lexical bundles in university spoken and
written registers. English for Specific Purpose, 26, 263–286.
• Fitzgerald, A., Marin. M.J., Wu, S. & Witten, I.H. (2017). Evaluating the
Efficacy of the Digital Commons for Scaling Data-Driven Learning. In M.
Carrier, R. M. Damerow, & K. M. Bailey (Eds.), Digital Language Learning
and Teaching: Research, Theory, and Practice (pp. 38 – 51). New York, NY:
Routledge & TIRF.
• Johns, T. (2002). Data-driven learning: the perpetual challenge. In B.
Kettemann & G. Marko (Eds.), Teaching and Learning by Doing Corpus
Analysis. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Teaching
and Language Corpora, Graz 19-24 July, 2000, (pp. 107-117). Amsterdam:
Rodopi.
• Milne, D. & Witten, I.H. (2013). An open-source toolkit for mining
Wikipedia. Artificial Intelligence, 194, 222-239.
• Wu, S., Li, L., Witten, I.H., Yu, A. (2016). Constructing a Collocation
Learning System from the Wikipedia Corpus. International Journal of
Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching (IJCALLT), 6, issue 3,
pp. 18-35
49. Thank You
Special Thanks:
Ruth Crymes TESOL Fellowship for Graduate Study
The International Research Foundation (TIRF) for English Language Education
FLAX Language Project & Software Downloads: http://flax.nzdl.org/
FLAX Language Project Research: https://www.researchgate.net/project/FLAX-Flexible-
Language-Acquisition-flaxnzdlorg
The How-to eBook of FLAX: http://flax-
doc.nzdl.org/BOOK_OF_FLAX/BookofFLAX%20fullsize%20with%20links.pdf
FLAX Game-based Apps for Android via Google Play Store (free):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=FLAX%20TEAM&hl=en
Ian Witten (FLAX Project Lead): ihw@cs.waikato.ac.nz
Shaoqun Wu (FLAX Research and Development): shaoqun@waikato.ac.nz
Alannah Fitzgerald (FLAX Open Language Research): a_fitzg@education.concordia.ca
TOETOE Technology for Open English Blog: www.alannahfitzgerald.org
Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/AlannahOpenEd/
Twitter: @AlannahFitz
Editor's Notes
Teachers can construct collections of different types: for different purposes and for different types of students.
The collections can be:
item specific
domain and/or topic specific
graded for levels of difficulty
representative of a particular source or of a particular genre
subsets of a larger corpus e.g. BAWE.
Potentially students can also construct collections (see Charles, 2012)