Making digital open educational resources for EAP

Making digital open educational resources for EAP: Issues and options

Martin Barge, Alannah Fitzgerald, and William TweddleQueen Mary, University of London; Higher Education Academy and Oxford University Computing Services;

Queen Mary, University of London

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Overview

Linking BALEAP web resourcesDiscussing free versus open EAP resourcesInvestigating sharing & use of open resourcesEnvisioning OER for EAP

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19. LICENSE TO USE

19. License to use

Open licenses (e.g. Creative Commons) allow resources to be used without the need for rights clearance. Is the content you need openly licensed?

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3. SHARING IS GOOD

3. Sharing is good

The ethos of education is to share learning. Can open content be a sound investment as well as the right thing to do?

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• For the practitioner– Web presence; resources development expertise;

professional recognition.

• For the student– Preview of, access to and contribution to course

content.

• For the institution– Brand promotion; best practice showcasing.

• For the EAP community– Materials development collaboration; sharing best

practice.

28. MY COMMUNITY

28. My community

If I belong to a community already, then is this the best place to look for great reusable resources? Or would I miss something?

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The ‘raw’ and the ‘cooked’Raw: Flickr, JISC Media Hub, DOAJ (Directory of

Open Access Journals), iTunesU, The Internet Archive, YouTube, TED, OpenYale, Wikimedia...

Cooked: uefap, Academic English Online, Prepare for Success, BAWE collections in FLAX, TTV...

EAP communities:

Forging ESAP materials creation linksAcLits and SFL communitiesBALEAP, EULEAP, College Composition etc...

7. LEARN NEW STUFF

7. Learn new stuff

Does working with other people’s stuff offer effective development?Or would you miss the creative thrill of making your own?

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• For the practitioner– Development of practical skills in digital materials

creation: reuse, repurpose, remix and redistribute.

• For the student– Access to up-to-date resources: inside and beyond the

classroom.

• For the institution– Sustainable resources and continued recognition.

• For the EAP community– Exposure to new and relevant tools and resources for

EAP (e.g. Xerte and FLAX)

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Presentation can be part of the appeal. The resource looks better than ones we made. Overall, how important is appearance?

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6. POLICY

6. Policy

There has been support for reuse and ‘sustainable e-learning’ in various policy documents so far. Does this go far enough?

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Open access and research-driven teachingThe Finch Report

Institutional e-learning strategiesMoving online: marketing, distance learning & teaching

Changing nature of Higher EducationMOOCsGovernment-funded OER initiatives

Envisioning BALEAP web resourcesLinking to external resourcesProviding training in OER

Thank you

Martin Barge: m.i.barge@qmul.ac.uk William Tweddle: w.tweddle@qmul.ac.uk

Alannah Fitzgerald: fitzgerald@education.concordia.ca; @AlannahFitzSlideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/AlannahOpenEd/

Chris Peglar’s Reusable card game: http://orioleproject.blogspot.co.uk/p/shop.html