This document discusses open educational practices for English language education. It describes the TOETOE International project which evaluates and develops open educational resources (OER) with international partners. It discusses how Oxford content is managed and created in the Flexible Language Acquisition project (FLAX), including research corpora, teaching podcasts, and building language collections in FLAX by linking to open tools and content. Several international collaborations and conferences involving OER are also mentioned.

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

2. 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

3. 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

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

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

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

7. 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/

8. 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

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

10. University of Oxford OER
http://openspires.oucs.ox.ac.uk/resources/index.html#posters
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11. http://www.slideshare.net/tbirdcymru/itunes-u-corporate-channel-of-free-educational-resources

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

13. 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.

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

15. British Academic Written English corpus:
browse by genre or discipline

16. BAWE sub corpus wordlists

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

18. Search and store collocations

19. Retrieve and save collocations

20. Collocational links to further resources

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

22. Word lists:
general, academic, specific, key

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

24. Build YouTube into your FLAX collections

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

26. Developing podcast activities in FLAX

27. Close exercises in FLAX

28. Scrambled sentences in FLAX

29. Drag ‘n’ Drop exercises in FLAX

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

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

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

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

34. 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