Beyond Content: Open Educational Practices for English Language Education

Alannah Fitzgerald IATEFL 2013

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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

TOETOE International: FLAX Weaving with Oxford Open Educational Resources

(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

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TOETOE Technology for Open English Toying with Open E-resources (ˈtɔɪtɔɪ)

Alannah Fitzgerald's blog

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Love is a stranger in an open car to tempt you in and drive you far away...toward OEP

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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

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University of Oxford OER

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Training Videos for FLAX on YouTube

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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.

FLAX British Academic Written English (BAWE) Collections

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British Academic Written English corpus:browse by genre or discipline

BAWE sub corpus wordlists

The BAWE sub corpus text collections:POS-tagging phrases

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Search and store collocations

Retrieve and save collocations

Collocational links to further resources

Wikify key words & phrases

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Word lists: general, academic, specific, key

FLAX Do-It-Yourself Podcast Corpora with Oxford OER

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Build YouTube into your FLAX collections

FLAX Do-It-Yourself Podcast Corpora 2: Building interactivity into your collections

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Developing podcast activities in FLAX

Close exercises in FLAX

Scrambled sentences in FLAX

Drag ‘n’ Drop exercises in FLAX

Training Videos for FLAX on YouKu

http://www.youku.com/playlist_show/id_18115224.html

Open Dissemination Channels for ELTRussell Stannard - Teacher Training Videos

http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com

Please register with FLAX to build your own collections!

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Open Content, Practices, Communities

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Thank you

Email: fitzgerald@education.concordia.ca; shaoqun@waikato.ac.nz FLAX Language: flax.nzdl.org; Twitter: @AlannahFitz

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