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Welcome to Open Education Week 2022

March 2, 2022 Leave a Comment

March 7-11, 2022 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 below to learn how to get involved during Open Ed Week.

Attend OLRC’s and COERLL’s FL OER Conference

The weekend before Open Education Week the Open Language Resource Center (OLRC) at the University of Kansas and COERLL will be co-hosting the second annual Foreign Language OER online Conference on Saturday, March 5, 2022 via Zoom. The goal of the conference is to provide a venue to showcase large-scale language OER and to exchange information on topics related to OER production and adoption.

This year’s conference will highlight materials in Arabic, Croatian, Czech, ESL, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Urdu. Presentations will explore inclusivity, accessibility, OER in K-12, faculty/developer partnerships, Heritage Language Learners, Creative Commons licensing and other important issues.!

There is no cost to attend the conference. It will be conducted entirely through Zoom and composed of 15 minute lightning talks and 30 minute presentations.

  • Register by March 4 at 12:00pm CST, 2022
  • Browse the program

Be featured on COERLL’s Language OER Network

Have you taught with openly licensed resources, created your own openly licensed resources, or helped others learn about OER? If so, we want to give you a digital badge and feature you on the Language OER Network! 117 faculty, teachers, librarians, graduate and undergraduate students are already listed there.

Visit the LOERN page to join

Find other events and resources for Open Education Week

You can discover other events around the world on the Open Education Week website. Here’s just a sample:

  • Presentation Ask Me Anything About H5P – March 7, 2022 at 10am CST
  • Panel Discussion Overcoming Faculty Barriers to OER Adoption – March 7, 2022 at 4pm CST
  • Keynote Equity and Inclusion in the Open Education Movement Keynote Address: Towards Sustainable OER Creation for Ethnic Studies – March 8, 2022 at 11:00am CST
  • Presentation COERLL project presentation series: Texas Coalition for Heritage Spanish – March 8, 2022 at 11:30am CST
  • Session Making OER Count: Incorporating OER into the Tenure and Promotion Process– March 8, 2022 at 12pm CST
  • Session Embracing OER: Tips, Tricks, and Strategies – March 9, 2022 at 1pm CST
  • Presentation COERLL project presentation series: Trayectos Presentation – March 10, 2022 at 3:30pm CST
  • Round Table Evaluating Open Pedagogies – March 11, 2022 at 10:30am CST

Learn more about OER for language learning in our introductory guide

Two years ago, we launched the Introduction to OER for Language Teachers, a series of modules on topics related to creating and using open educational resources and practices. We have been updating the guide ever since based on our conversations with teachers – it’s OER, so it continues to evolve!

If you are already a user or creator of OER, or are planning on becoming one, please take a look at the guide, and let us know what you think.

Try licensing your work

If you are already sharing activities, lesson plans, or other resources with colleagues, you might want to consider adding a Creative Commons license, so people know how they are allowed to use your resource and remember to give you credit. Here’s how…

  1. Somewhere in your document, write “This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License” (or whichever other license you choose). This page can help you choose a license (that is, choose how people are allowed to use your resource).
  2. Add an image of the license if you have it.
  3. Don’t forget to include your name as the author!

 

*Definition from the Open Education Consortium’s Open Education Week website, licensed under CC BY.

Filed Under: COERLL updates, OER initiatives, Teacher Development Tagged With: conference, OEP, OER, open educational practices, open educational resources

Welcome to Open Education Week 2021

February 28, 2021 Leave a Comment

March 1-5, 2021 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 below to learn how to get involved during Open Ed Week.

Attend OLRC’s and COERLL’s FL OER Conference

The Open Language Resource Center (OLRC) at the University of Kansas and COERLL will be hosting the first annual Foreign Language OER Conference on Saturday, March 6, 2021. Language instructors will showcase large-scale foreign language OER and exchange information on topics related to OER production and adoption. We hope this will be a space for sharing lessons learned and building a community of practice!

There is no cost to attend the conference. It will be conducted entirely through Zoom and composed of 15 minute lightning talks and 30 minute presentations.

  • Register by March 4, 2021
  • Browse the program

Read NEW OER from COERLL

  • Her Şey Bir Merhaba ile Başlar! (Everything Begins with a Hello!), a multimedia textbook with supplementary materials for intermediate Turkish language learners, developed by Jeannette Okur and licensed under a CC BY-SA license.
  • Open Education and Second Language Learning and Teaching: The Rise of a New Knowledge Ecology, a compilation of case studies about open projects and practices in the language classroom and beyond the classroom, edited by Carl Blyth and Joshua Thoms and licensed under a CC BY-ND license.

Be featured on COERLL’s Language OER Network

Have you taught with openly licensed resources, created your own openly licensed resources, or helped others learn about OER? If so, we want to give you a digital badge and feature you on the Language OER Network! 117 faculty, teachers, librarians, graduate and undergraduate students are already listed there.

Visit the LOERN page to join

Find other events and resources for Open Education Week

You can discover other events around the world on the Open Education Week website. Here’s just a sample:

  • Presentation Engaging Students as OER Contributors – March 1, 2021 at 10am CST
  • Webinar Equity and Open Education Faculty Panel – March 1, 2021 at 12pm CST
  • Webinar Implementación de un curso en México y Chile para la producción de REA – March 2, 2021 at 3pm CST
  • Workshop Create interactive H5P elements for your course! – March 3, 2021 at 1pm CST
  • Session Open-inspired Midday Yoga – March 4, 2021 at 1pm CST

And check out these resources:

  • 10 minute challenges to learn more about OER from BCcampus
  • Creative Commons license training content from Creative Commons
  • #OEWeek hashtag on Twitter
  • Faculty Spotlight of Dr. Jocelly Meiners, Texas Coalition for Heritage Spanish Project co-director, from University of Texas at Austin Libraries

Learn more about OER for language learning in our introductory guide

Two years ago, we launched the Introduction to OER for Language Teachers, a series of modules on topics related to creating and using open educational resources and practices. We have been updating the guide ever since based on our conversations with teachers – it’s OER, so it continues to evolve!

If you are already a user or creator of OER, or are planning on becoming one, please take a look at the guide, and let us know what you think.

Try licensing your work

If you are already sharing activities, lesson plans, or other resources with colleagues, you might want to consider adding a Creative Commons license, so people know how they are allowed to use your resource and remember to give you credit. Here’s how…

  1. Somewhere in your document, write “This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License” (or whichever other license you choose). This page can help you choose a license (that is, choose how people are allowed to use your resource).
  2. Add an image of the license if you have it.
  3. Don’t forget to include your name as the author!

 

*Definition from the Open Education Consortium’s Open Education Week website, licensed under CC BY.

Filed Under: COERLL updates, OER initiatives, Teacher Development Tagged With: case studies, conference, OEP, OER, open educational practices, open educational resources, Turkish

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 below to learn how to get involved during Open Ed Week.

Attend COERLL’s Open Ed Week OER Hangout Webinar

Celebrate Open Education Week by attending this discussion-based webinar on Wednesday March 4 at 6:00pm CST, where you will have a chance to chat with three instructors who have adopted OER and creatively adapted the content for their language classes.

  • Alexandra Gouirand is a French faculty member at South Puget Sound Community College. She uses Français interactif as the main textbook in her French 1 class, as well as ancillary books and online resources including YouTube videos.
  • Dawn Michael has been teaching French since 1991, and is currently a high school French teacher in Ohio. She uses the open curriculum Français interactif to teach blended French 1 and 2 courses and creates her own supplements to accompany the resources.
  • Valérie Morgan is a French lecturer. She uses the open curriculum Français interactif to teach Levels 1, 2, and 3 French. To supplement the textbook she uses Google Classroom, Google Tools, Flipgrid, and Padlet.

Since Français interactif is the most widely-used OER published by COERLL, it was easier for us to find French teachers to present here, but we hope teachers of all languages will join.

There will be 20 minutes of presentation time, and the rest of the hour will be dedicated to your questions and to conversation between participants and panelists. We want to hear from you!

Be featured on COERLL’s Language OER Network

Have you taught with openly licensed resources, created your own openly licensed resources, or helped others learn about OER? If so, we want to give you a digital badge and feature you on the Language OER Network! 102 faculty, teachers, librarians, graduate and undergraduate students are already listed there.

Visit the LOERN page to join

Find other events and resources for Open Education Week

You can discover other events around the world on the Open Education Week website. Here’s just a sample:

  • Online Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Honouring Indigenous Writers Wikipedia Edit-a-thon – March 2 at 3:00pm CST
  • Twitter chat #OERWishList: A Twitter Chat for the Future of Open Education – March 3 at 1:30pm CST
  • COERLL Webinar Talk to teachers who have adopted and adapted OER – March 4 at 6:00pm CST
  • Webinar Libretexts and H5P: How We Created a Spanish OER Grammar Manual – March 4 at 6:00pm CST
  • Webinar H5P for Assessment – March 5 at 1:00pm
  • Webinar Language Diversity in OER with Pressbooks – March 5 at 2:00pm

And check out these resources:

  • Follow the #OEWeekChallenge hashtag from Open Oregon for an OER-related challenge to do each day
  • Read about Julie Ward’s student-authored anthology project Antología abierta de literatura hispana

Learn more about OER for language learning in our introductory guide

Last year, we launched the Introduction to OER for Language Teachers, a series of modules on topics related to creating and using open educational resources and practices. We have been updating the guide ever since based on our conversations with teachers – it’s OER, so it continues to evolve!

If you are already a user or creator of OER, or are planning on becoming one, please take a look at the guide, and let us know what you think!

Try licensing your work

If you are already sharing activities, lesson plans, or other resources with colleagues, you might want to consider adding a Creative Commons license, so people know how they are allowed to use it and remember to give you credit. Here’s how…

  1. Somewhere in your document, write “This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License” (or whichever other license you choose). This page can help you choose a license (that is, choose how people are allowed to use your resource).
  2. Add an image of the license if you have it.
  3. Don’t forget to include your name as the author!

 

*Definition from the Open Education Consortium’s Open Education Week website, licensed under CC BY.

Filed Under: COERLL updates, OER initiatives, Teacher Development Tagged With: OEP, OER, open educational practices, open educational resources, webinar

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