The slide deck of the session the importance of repurposing education materials. Delivered at the

1. John Allan johnharoldallan@gmail.com
The Importance of Repurposing
Qatar University 5th International
Conference on Language Teaching

2. Session plan
• What is repurposing of educational materials
• Why repurpose educational materials
• Repurposing techniques and examples
• Questions and Answers

3. Repurposing
educational
materials
•to give learning materials a new purpose

4. Why repurpose learning materials?
• Efficiency
• Save time and energy
• Budget
• Consistency
• Learning Object bank/archive growth
• Extend the audience

5. Alternate sources
• Tabula rasa development
• Frustrating
• Edits & approvals
• May lack consistency
• Time consuming

6. Repurpose from Alternate sources
• OERs, Open educational Resources
• generous professional peers
• legal online sources
• learning object repositories

7. Alternate sources - Open Educational Resources

8. OERs

9. •Assayer Largest catalogue of open sources textbooks. Also is a good place to find free books about math, science and
computers.
•AU Press Athabasca University Press - free pdf and low cost print version of mainly Canadian books.
•BC Open Textbook Collection Search the BCcampus open collection
•eCampus Ontario Open Library Collection of open textbooks and other open resources
•HathiTrust Digital Library A partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized
from libraries around the world.
•LibreTexts Non-commercial open textbook organization initiated at the University of California, Davis. Students, faculty, and
outside experts work together to build OER. Currently covers 12 widely used college-level disciplines from chemistry to
humanities with over 68,500 pages.
•MERLOT - Education resources The MERLOT system provides access to curated free and open online teaching and learning
support materials and content creation tools, used by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.
•OAPEN Contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the humanities and social sciences.
•OER Commons Worldwide learning network of shared teaching and learning materials.
•Open Courseware Consortium Collaboration of higher education institutions to share and expand their open course offerings.
•OpenStax Peer reviewed post secondary textbooks
•Open SUNY Textbooks "Open SUNY Textbooks is an open access textbook publishing initiative established by State University
of New York libraries and supported by SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grants".
•Open Textbook Library One of the largest repositories of open textbooks.
•Saylor Academy Open Textbooks Textbooks are available to use, keep, revise, and share under open licenses.
•Textbook Revolution "Textbook Revolution is a student-run site dedicated to increasing the use of free educational materials
by teachers and professors. We want to get these materials into classrooms. On this site you'll find links and reviews of
textbooks and select educational resources."

10. Alternate sources
Repositories
• National repository

11. Learning Objects

12. Learning Object
• can be downloaded
• repurposed

13. Learning Object copyright
• Creative commons

14. Download
• Then edit

15. Alternate sources - 3rd Party Sources
• Kahoot
• Quizlet
• Socrative
• Quizizz

16. repurposable
• Study sets

17. Alternate
sources
LMS Repository
• Moodle
• Institution

18. Repository

19. Repurposing techniques - Copy & Paste
• Simple but efficient
• Repurposing a part of a document
• Keep text only

20. Repurposing techniques – Copy & Paste into Templates
• Paste content into departmental templates
• Promotes consistency
• Not a teacher favourite

21. Repurposing techniques – Save As
• Repurposing an entire document
• Preserves original formatting if required

22. Repurposing techniques - Authoring Apps Duplication
• reuse in H5P
• Duplicate in Ted Ed Lessons
• duplicate in Kahoot
• copy in Socrative

23. Repurposing techniques - Duplication in authoring tools
• Duplicate elements
• Duplicate complete lessons

24. Repurposing techniques - Randomization
• questions
• sections
• answers and distracters
• reorders activities
•new activity each impression

25. Repurposing techniques – Question Pools
• bank of questions
• more questions in pool than test
• questions randomly selected from pool

26. Repurposing techniques – Plain Text
• Copied into
• 3rd party tools
• High end development tools
• Multi-modal results

27. Repurposing results
• Potential Learning Objects for a local Learning Object Repository
• Consistency of learning objects
• Reduced teacher stress

28. Questions
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