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Using Game-Based Learning to Teach Cultural Content

March 8, 2020 Leave a Comment

Photo credit: Pixabay user TheAndrasBarta under a Pixabay license Editor's note: This post was first published in InterCom, a free, customized weekly newsletter, offered by the Center for Applied Second Language Studies (CASLS). Thank you, CASLS, for giving us permission to re-publish! In the … [Continue reading...]

Welcome to Open Education Week 2020

March 2, 2020 2 Comments

March 2-6, 2020 is Open Education Week, an international event to build awareness of open education and show its impact on teaching and learning. Open education encompasses resources, tools and practices that employ a framework of open sharing to improve educational access and effectiveness.* Read … [Continue reading...]

What Rebus can do for Language Teachers

January 31, 2020 Leave a Comment

The open education movement is full of well-meaning, very smart people who get stuff done. My favourite kind of people! These people care about students, their success, and, most-importantly, their well-being. There are lots of ways to participate in this movement: you can adopt open educational … [Continue reading...]

Collaborative classroom research through the Exploratory Practice framework

November 10, 2019 Leave a Comment

Photo credit: Middle school Spanish class by flickr user woodleywonderworks Editor's note: the following is an excerpt from "Exploratory practice: a way of opening up access to research by classroom teachers and learners" by Assia Slimani-Rolls in the book "New case studies of openness in and … [Continue reading...]

The Community of Creating OER with Students

October 27, 2019 1 Comment

Image of students from the Boise State University Pathways Project COERLL hosted an online “OER hangout” on September 25th on the subject of creating open educational resources (OER) with students. With 26 people attending, five language instructors shared their experiences of working with their … [Continue reading...]

The potential of open pedagogy

October 13, 2019 Leave a Comment

Photo credit: "Create" by flickr user Eden, Janine and Jim Open pedagogy is an approach to teaching that has emerged from the open education movement. It aims to make learning more accessible, learner driven, and connected. Open pedagogy gives learners the space to create something that will be … [Continue reading...]

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