COERLL’s 2014-2018 Title VI national foreign language resource center federal grant, and the projects funded by the grant, will soon be coming to an end.

COERLL and the project teams have learned a lot during this grant about the potential and the challenges of open educational resources. Each project had slightly different goals and a different way of reaching those goals. For every idea you see implemented in these materials, there is another great idea that we just didn’t have time for… but we hope to work on more of these in the future. And perhaps our reflections on these projects can provide some guidance or inspiration for those of you who may be considering creating your own open educational resources.

You can read about each of our projects by clicking the links below. Each of the projects was managed by faculty, created through faculty and graduate student labor, and supported by technical, graphic design, pedagogical, and administrative assistance from COERLL and other centers at the University of Texas at Austin.

• Foreign Languages and the Literary in the Everyday (FLLITE) open literacy lessons
• User-Generated Materials for Heritage Spanish
• eComma: An Upgraded L2 Social Reading Tool
• Língua da Gente podcasts
• Chqe’tamaj le qach’ab’al! (Let’s Learn K’iche’) online course materials
• Reality Czech online textbook
• Open Digital Badges for K-12 Professional Development
• Survey on OER/OEP use by language teachers
• TELL Collab collaborative professional learning event

Thank you to all of the project teams! It has been wonderful working with you and we are proud to help share your work.