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Open Educational Resources in English for Academic Purposes
Hanoi Open University Workshop
January 11th, 2013
Halong Bay by Saturn CC-BY-NC-SAAlannah Fitzgerald
Overview• FLAX Open Source Data Driven Learning tools and collections
– Windows into linked copyrighted and open corpora = super ELT resources that go beyond many published resources
– More accessible for non-specialist users, namely teachers and students• Promotion, training and evaluation of resources
– DDL is still not a popular sport in mainstream ELT (Tribble, 2012)– DDL approaches facilitate English for Specific (Academic) Purposes
• Broadening the DDL stakeholder vision – How can we move beyond classroom practice to include open and
distance learning?– How can we work more closely with international collaborators for OER?
• UK OER International programme– Oxford creative commons resources & Oxford-managed corpora– Building your own collections = a new methodology for DDL in EAP &
Resources Development– ORIEL Re-use game and Creative Commons licensing scenarios
Preview of OER collections building with FLAX
Linked resources: live Web search
SCORE Academic Practice & Accreditation
Open Educational Practices
The four Rs of OER in teaching & learning:
Reuse – Use the work verbatim, just exactly as you found itRework – Alter or transform the work so that it better
meets your needsRemix – Combine the (verbatim or altered work) with
other works to better meet your needsRedistribute – Share the verbatim work, the reworked
work, or the remixed work with others
David Wiley, 2007
Open Data-Driven Technology in Language Teaching and Learning
Shaoqun Wu & Alannah Fitzgerald
The Universities of Waikato and OxfordThe Higher Education Academy OER International
Data Driven Learning (DDL)
In DDL, a student has access to a large body of authentic language, from which s/he can extract language items in context. (Boulton, 2011)
The student is a language “research worker” (Johns, 1994).
What is a Digital Library?
The digital library concept is applied to a collection of digital resources including but not restricted to those selected by the teacher.
Digital LibraryDigital Library
Collocation database
Collocation database
GlossaryGlossary
Any other resourceAny other resource
flax.nzdl.org
BNC/BAWE
Learning Collocations collection in FLAXFLAX team collections building:
Shaoqun Wu, Ian Witten, Margaret Franken, Xiaofeng Yu – Waikato University
http://tinyurl.com/73zcgac
How could you use the FLAX collections in your teaching and learning and in preparation for exams such as IELTS/TOEFL?
Using corpus-based resources to support student writing
Shaoqun Wu
The University of Waikato
Features of academic writing
• Complexity• Formality• Hedging• Precision• Objectivity• Explicitness• Accuracy• Responsibility
Complexity
• more lexical words than grammatical words
• more noun-based phrases• more nominalizations• more lexical variation
Formality
Avoiding use of: "stuff", "a lot of", "thing", "sort of”, "can't", "doesn't", "shouldn't”, "put off", "bring up"
Preparing for essay writing
• for teachers: building a collection of articles on a relevant topic
• for students: understanding more with linked resources and collecting relevant language on a related topic
Example IELTS writing topic: stress at work
• … is caused by work stress• … is affected by work stress • … due to the work stress• …. suffer from work stress• … is under extreme work stress• • … causes higher levels of stress• Effects of work stress include …• Sources of work stress are …• … are the signs of work stress• As a result of work stress, …• • What can you do to reduce work stress?• How to manage work stress/handle work stress/cope with work stress• uses strategies/resources to cope with work stress• learn … ways of coping with work stress
Student feedback
• Words or phrases I had heard before but had trouble understanding properly, it was very good to look up these in relation to my assignment.
• Origins of words like notation that were used in a different context that I’m used to. Makes me understand the text better.
• When reading other texts related to the assignment I could look words up that I didn't understand.
• I looked up words that I normally overlook as normal dictionaries don't tend to have these phrases or words. (EC’s comments on using the system for her phonology assignment)
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Writing Feedback Survey
Please fill out the following survey and tell us about feedback to student writing and the type of resources you use.
(Liang Li & Alannah Fitzgerald)
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/277L2QY
Open Training Resources for Wider Participation
Alannah Fitzgerald & Shaoqun Wu
The Universities of Waikato and OxfordThe Higher Education Academy OER International
Training Videos for FLAX on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyDG29aQo8Y
Training Videos for FLAX on YouKu
http://www.youku.com/playlist_show/id_18115224.html
Beyond audience boundariesRussell Stannard - Teacher Training Videos
http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com
International Collaboration OER & DDL for EAP
FLAX OSS and Oxford resourcesTOETOE International
University of Oxford
30http://openspires.oucs.ox.ac.uk/resources/index.html#posters
English through literature OER
http://www.slideshare.net/tbirdcymru/itunes-u-corporate-channel-of-free-educational-resources
http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/
It’s all in the downloads
University Downloads
Open University, UK Over 34 million since June 2008
University of Oxford Over 9 million since June 2008
Coventry University 2.5 million in 2010 alone
University of Warwick 1 million Jan ‘09 – June ‘10
http://www.slideshare.net/tbirdcymru/itunes-u-corporate-channel-of-free-educational-resources
What is Creative Commons?
• Derived from free and open source software licensing• Founded in 2001 by Prof Lawrence Lessig at the University of
Stanford • Designed to push back against increased enclosure of
‘intellectual commons’• Six ‘general’, regionalised licences for easy sharing of rights
in content• A suite of machine-, human- and lawyer-readable licences
What are the conditions?
Attribution • Author must be acknowledged on all copies and adaptations
of the work, including a link to the original version of the work
What are the conditions?
Non-commercial • The work can only be used for non-commercial purposes
What are the conditions?
No Derivatives• The work can only be distributed in its original form; no
adaptations or translations can be made
What are the conditions?
Sharealike• The work can be modified and adapted, but the entire
resulting work (including new material added by the adaptor) must be distributed under the same sharealike licence
What are the six licences?
What does adaptation mean?
• Your authorship will always be acknowledged• Some examples
– Re-use in educational material– Sampling your voice to use in electronic music– Incorporating still or moving images into a Youtube video
• Re-use must avoid ‘derogatory treatment’ meaning adaptation that risks having a detrimental effect on your reputation
What could you do with the Oxford Creative Commons podcast content?
Linking open tools and open pods
43http://http://openspires.oucs.ox.ac.uk/crunch/
Mining Oxford podcasts
Building podcast collections in FLAX
Developing podcast activities in FLAX
Close exercises in FLAX
Scrambled sentences in FLAX
Drag ‘n’ Drop exercises in FLAX
Teachers as OER developers, users, publishers
Materials Development with OER
51Arguably, competencies with resources cut across the whole of the TEAP framework.
http://www.baleap.org.uk/baleap/parties-projects/eap-teacher-competencies/
Why make educational resources open?
A growing momentum behind OER worldwide Commitment to social justice and widening participation Helps build markets and reputation Bridges the divide between formal and informal learning A test bed for new e-learning developments and an
opportunity to research and evaluate them A way of drawing in materials from other organisations A means for attracting the attention of publishers Provides the basis for world-wide collaboration
https://openeducationalresources.pbworks.com/w/page/24836480/Home
11. CONVENIENCE
Access to resources online is now so convenient
it can replace using your own HEI’s resources. Is
there a downside?
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Reuse of OER•The blue cards are on a general theme of MOTIVATION – what leads to OER reuse or discourages it.
•The grey cards are on the theme of TECHNOLOGY – how this may affect OER reuse
•The pink cards are on the theme of QUALITY – how this affects OER use decisions
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Open licensing scenarios with Creative Commons
Licensing Scenarios
Group work: Read and discuss the following licensing scenarios as they would apply to language teaching and materials development practice.
(Adapted from copyright resources created by Bernie Atwell at the OU; adapted for language resource developers)
Use clearance
I’ve found an open access pre-publication article by Diane Nation on the web and this would be brilliant to use in my EAP class. I intend to develop a language learning resource with these materials and then to upload it onto the web for open use. I’ve tried to contact Ms Nation twice and have been in touch with the web master of the site to see if s/he can help but have had no response so far. I’ve amended the article, as I didn’t agree with some of the points she was making. I think I’ve improved the work actually and I’ve obviously left her acknowledged as the author. As I’ve had no response I’m just going to use it anyway. Everyone’s always talking about risk so I’ll take one. Is this OK?
CC licensing worldwide
My institution has an online open learning resource and is based in Vietnam. We have selected a Vietnamese licence for the use of our content. However, a user in China has asked us if the CC licence still applies? Does the CC licence refer to where the content is being used or where it is hosted?
Open software licenses
I have some software I would like to make available under a CC licence – would that be OK?
Logo protection
My institution is making some of its content available under a CC licence. How do we ensure that our trademarks/logos are protected?
Extended Licensing Scenario
The following scenario is intended to promote discussion around the areas of creative commons licensing, the collaborations involved, and any other issues the discussion may highlight.
Your educational institution is going to be working in collaboration with at least two other educational institutions in Vietnam and one in the UK. You are going to create an innovative joint MA TESOL resource for Masters students studying and researching in the area of open corpora for teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP). This facility will act as a provider of online resources. All institutions will provide some of their own existing materials that contain third party content (journal articles, images, extracts from books, and website content) which are made up of text and audio-visual content. The collaboration would like to make the content openly available whilst ensuring that their intellectual property rights are not compromised.
Consider the following questions for discussion:
• How would you license this content to users?• Would you consider using a Creative Commons
licence, if so which one?• Would you need to consider more than one type of
licence?• What would you need to take care of contractually in
relation to the content?• How would you ensure that the integrity of third
party content is maintained?
Thank you
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