Open Educational Resources in EAP: Cross Pollination from the Open Access & Open Source Movements in the Age of Digital Scholarship

Open Educational Resources in EAP Cross Pollination from the Open Access & Open Source

Movements in the Age of Digital Scholarship

Created by Alannah Fitzgerald

Research Fellow at the English Language Centre, Durham University

Teaching Fellow at the Support Centre for Open Resources in Education, Open University

2011 BALEAP CONFERENCE, PORTSMOUTH

Licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Share Alike

Workshop Overview

• Open Practices & Open Networks– Defining Open Educational Resources (OER)

• Open Tools & Open Content– Concordancing Web Corpora

• Open Repositories– Locating & Evaluating OER for EAP

• Open Licensing & Intellectual Property Rights– Licensing Scenarios

OER Defined (i)

Open Educational Resources are “...digitisedmaterials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research.” Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources, OECD 2007

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

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

http://www.mastersdegreeonline.net/blog/2009/the-100-best-open-education-resources-on-the-web/

http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/

OpenSpires

http://openspires.oucs.ox.ac.uk/

OER Defined (ii)Open communities as much as open content

http://www.flickr.com/photos/edibleoffice/5391049006/sizes/l/in/gallery-60810582@N04-72157626302755808/

Russell Stannard’s Teacher Training Videos

http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/

Russell Stannard on MMTV.com(funded by the HEA Individual Strand for OER)

• “I think 50% of what OER is about is the social networking and the promoting of content for a project like mine.

• This could be a model for sustainability.

• Both direct and indirect benefits.

• Multiple repositories means multiple tweets.

• Good networking broadens your content.”

Facebook: Russell-Stannard/727103798#!/MultimediaTrainingVideos

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jadendave/5210820423/

Twitter @russell1955

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thenextweb/3346248321/sizes/l/

Are you an open educational resource?

SCORE Academic Practice & Accreditation

Cambridge ESOL Training in Materials Development

Knowledge of resources, materials and reference sources for language learning

DELTA Module Outline 2008

Adapting Textbook Activities with SARS

Select

Adapt

Reject

Supplement

Graves, 2003

Open Educational Practices

The four Rs of OER in teaching & learning:

Reuse – Use the work verbatim, just exactly as you found it

Rework – Alter or transform the work so that it better meets your needs

Remix – Combine the (verbatim or altered work) with other works to better meet your needs

Redistribute – Share the verbatim work, the reworked work, or the remixed work with others

David Wiley, 2007

An OER Metaphor

https://openeducationalresources.pbworks.com/w/page/25228307/OER-Myths

Trends in the components of educational systems

After David Wiley

Analogue >>>>>>>>>>>>>

Tethered >>>>>>>>>>>>>

Isolated >>>>>>>>>>>>>

Generic >>>>>>>>>>>>>

Consumers >>>>>>>>>>>>>

Closed >>>>>>>>>>>>>

Digital

Mobile

Connected

Personal

Creators

Open

FLAX

http://flax2.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax?page=home

Web Pronouns Phrases OER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns4nXsZQmUA

Web Phrases OER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n67FBqBFm6I

Compleat Lexical Tutor

http://www.lextutor.ca/

Web Collocations OERhttp://www.lextutor.ca/vp/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyZgZhHMovI

Future of FLAX

http://flax.nzdl.org/resources/flax_video/flax_video.html

Open Content

The Directory of Open Access Repositories – OpenDOARhttp://www.opendoar.org/index.html

Gratis versus Libre

• Open Access for zero price (Gratis)

• Open Access with few or no restrictions (Libre)

Durham Research Online

http://dro.dur.ac.uk/cgi/latest

SHERPA/RoMEO: Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/projects/sherparomeo.html

Self-archiving of OER

• Developing OER for EAP based on Open Access publications

– Research-led teaching of EAP

– Access to specific discourse communities and peer-review

• A function-first approach to identifying formulaic language (Durrant, P. & Mathews-Aydinh, J., 2010)

• Uploading OER for EAP in multiple repositories

– Learning objects from teaching fellows

OER Development I

For Teachers, individually and collectively, OER make it possible for them to:

Create courses more efficiently and/or effectively, particularly using rich media resources that require advanced technical and media skills;

Investigate the ways in which others have taught their subject;

Create resources or courses in collaboration with others rather than doing it all themselves;

Join in communities of practice which help improve their teaching practices as they reflect on the community use of new open tools and technologies;

Customise & adapt resources by repurposing & remixing them.

http://loro.open.ac.uk/

Open Repositories

http://www.jorum.ac.uk/

http://www.humbox.ac.uk/

OER Evaluation Task

Consider how you might use/re-use the following OER for EAP instruction.

– 1. Guidelines for Writing at Masters Degree Level (Ursula Wingate, King’s College London)

http://resources.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/2963

– 2. Achieving Public Dialogue (The OU) http://open.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/958

– 3. Grammar and Academic Style for EAP (Emmanuel Godin, University of Portsmouth) http://humbox.ac.uk/1526/

Guidelines for Writing at Masters Degree Level

http://resources.jorum.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/2963

EAP for the Social Sciences

Writing at Masters Level by Ursula Wingate, 2009

Signposting in EAP

Writing at Masters Level by Ursula Wingate, 2009

Design Issues with One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)

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http://erikduval.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/laptop-fun/

Wednesday 3 November 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr8Bk9jTDaY&feature=player_embedded#at=15

OER Development II

For educational institutions OER offers opportunities to:

Showcase their teaching and research programmes to wider audiences;

Widen the pool of applicants for their courses and programmes;

Lower the lifetime costs of developing educational resources;

Collaborate with public and commercial organisations in new ways, including educational practitioners;

Extend their outreach activities

Copyright

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikeblogs/3020966666/sizes/o/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OERlogo.svg

Public Domain

http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterleth/4422431324/sizes/o/in/gallery-60810582@N04-72157626302755808/

Creative Commons

http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterleth/4422431300/in/gallery-60810582@N04-72157626302755808/

Attribution

http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterleth/4421664989/in/gallery-60810582@N04-72157626302755808/

Non Commercial

http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterleth/4421665015/sizes/o/in/gallery-60810582@N04-72157626302755808/

Share Alike

http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterleth/4421665121/sizes/o/in/gallery-60810582@N04-72157626302755808/

No Derivatives

http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterleth/4422431384/sizes/o/in/gallery-60810582@N04-72157626302755808/

Lichôdmapwa v. Théâtre de Spa Court of First Instance Nivelles

(Tribunal de Première Instance Nivelles) 26 October 2010

A Belgian band uploaded some songs on a freely

accessible website under a non-commercial and no

derivatives Creative Commons license. A Belgian

theatre used one of the songs to create an

advertisement for the next theatrical season, which was

broadcasted on several national radios channels. The

Court found that the theatre did not respect the

license and consequently granted indemnities to

the band.

http://kluwercopyrightblog.com/2011/03/09/lichodmapwa-v-theatre-de-spa-court-of-first-instance-nivelles-

tribunal-de-premiere-instance-bruxelles-26-october-2010-2/

Licensing Scenarios

Group/pair work:

Read and discuss the licensing scenarios as they would apply to your teaching and materials development practice.

Scenario 1

I’ve found six images on the web for use in my course-related DVD and the resolutions are fine. However, they are available under a Creative Commons, Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share-Alike licence. This clearance is fine for my initial use for staff and students, but we would probably eventually hope to sell the course. Should I not bother with these images?

Scenario 2

We are producing a teacher training unit on teaching English to young learners for our open educational resource area. A colleague from the English Language Centre at our university has provided some lovely images of her children she took while on holiday. I’m assuming because the colleague is a university member of staff these images she has given us will be OK to use in our open educational resources area?

Scenario 3

I’ve found an article by Diane Nation on the web and this would be brilliant for my learning object intended 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?

Scenario 4

My institution has an online open learning resource and is based in the UK. We have selected an England and Wales UK 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?

Scenario 5

I have some software I would like to make available under a CC licence – would that be OK?

Scenario 6

My institution is making some of its content available under a CC licence. How do we ensure that our trademarks/logos are protected?

SCORE Events for 2011

SCORE Events Dates for 2011

Introduction to OER May 3

OER 11 – Annual Conference May 11-13

SCORE Fellowship Showcase June 15

Short-term Fellowship July 10-15

Introduction to OER July 25

OER and Creative Commons September 16

Learning from OER Research Projects October 18

Sustaining OER Activity November 17

Short-term Fellowship December 4-9

Practical Tools for Finding OER December 13