Join Our June 19 Webinar!

Join Our June 19 Webinar!

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The Practice of Using and Teaching with OER

For this webinar, we’ll be joined by two French language instructors, Amanda Dalola (UT Austin) and Stephanie Roulon (Portland State University) who will talk about their experiences using OER in their classrooms. Together, we’ll explore the practice of implementing OER into teaching and talk, specifically, about their integration of COERLL’s popular French curriculum, Francais interactif, into their classrooms.

The webinar series is free and offers CPE credits. To receive credits, you’ll need to pre-register and make sure to participate in the webinar at the schedule time.

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Focus on SpinTX: An Open Video Archive for Language Learning
Wednesday, June 26, 3 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Presenters: Garin Fons (COERLL), Rachael Gilg (COERLL)

Join Our June 12 Webinar!

Join Our June 12 Webinar!

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Finding Open Media for Foreign Language Instruction Wednesday, June 12, 3 p.m.-4 p.m. (CST) Go to https://meeting.austin.utexas.edu/coerll-june-webinars to login and join the event. Presenters: Garin Fons (COERLL), Nathalie Steinfeld Childre (COERLL) Just a friendly reminder to … [Continue reading...]

The Mixxer Launches Spanish and English Language MOOCs

The Mixxer Launches Spanish and English Language MOOCs

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In January, Todd Bryant shared his plans to begin developing online courses using his language exchange website, The Mixxer. (See MOOCs + Learning Networks = The Mixxer.)  He is happy to announce the first offerings from this project: Free Language Learning MOOCs from The Mixxer English … [Continue reading...]

Free Online Professional Development for Foreign Language Educators

Free Online Professional Development for Foreign Language Educators

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Skip the convention centers and stuffy conference halls. COERLL will be bringing an exciting professional development opportunity directly to your home or office or fave coffee house, where ever you're plugging in at the time. In June, COERLL will roll out a webinar series for professional … [Continue reading...]

5 Ways to Open Up Corpora for Language Learning

5 Ways to Open Up Corpora for Language Learning

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Corpora developed by linguists to study languages are a promising source of authentic materials to employ in the development of OER for language learning. Recently, COERLL's SpinTX Corpus-to-Classroom project launched a new open resource that seeks to make it easy to search and adapt materials from … [Continue reading...]

Improving the Recipe for Effective Language Learning

Improving the Recipe for Effective Language Learning

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Fernando Rubio checks back in with us after finishing his first year teaching a Spanish MOOC. --- I ended my previous post inviting you to think about the role of MOOCs and the intersection between teaching and certification. The conversation that has been going on since my last post has … [Continue reading...]

Why Foreign Language Grad Programs Should Care About OER

Why Foreign Language Grad Programs Should Care About OER

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Discussions about the future of OER often seem to center on issues of promotion and tenure and on finding viable business models for  for large-scale projects. While these are certainly issues for which solutions need to be found, our desire to institutionalize and commodify OER must not crowd … [Continue reading...]

COERLL @ SOCALLT

COERLL @ SOCALLT

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We had a notable presence at this year's SOCALLT conference (South Central Association for Language Learning Technology). Language educators from Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, and New Mexico gathered to talk all things edu-tech. So we took this opportunity to unveil some of COERLL's new or … [Continue reading...]

Language Knowmads Wanted

Language Knowmads Wanted

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We found a kindred thinker in education futurologist, John Moravec at the University of Minnesota -- take a look at his vision for Society 3.0 (that's us!). Moravec describes members of Society 3.0 as agents of: change globalization innovation fueled by knowmads ("nomadic knowledge … [Continue reading...]

Give Us Some Credit!

Give Us Some Credit!

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It’s an exciting time. We're seeing the next phase of open education happening: progress toward accreditation for open online learning. We thought we'd share the latest news in this welcome trend. Academic Partnerships + MOOC2Degree  Academic Partnerships, representing some 40 U.S. … [Continue reading...]