Addressing the Training Resource Deficit Utilizing Open Corpora and OER

Addressing the Training Resource Deficit U5lizing Open Corpora and OER

Alannah Fitzgerald

h#p://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/5538036344

Overview •  Key concepts within data-‐driven language learning

– Meaning, frequency, use, derivaGves, collocaGons •  Training with corpora and text analysis tools

– Open vs proprietary content & tools •  FLAX – the Flexible Language AcquisiGon project

– Digital infrastructure and enhancement –  CopyleU dances with copyright

•  OpenSpires –  CreaGve commons podcast content (OER) –  iTunesU as an OER channel

•  Further resources

Typical concordance interface

Titania Cobuild Collins

Adapted from Hoffmann et al., 2008

Where do you start?

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FLAX – Flexible Language Acquisi5on Flexible Language Acquisi5on

library

Meaning + Usage + Frequency

*goalless* search in the FLAX Web Phrases collecGon

FLAX -‐ web colloca5ons

Economy

FLAX - web collocations

FLAX - sources

FLAX – Flexible Language Acquisi5on Flexible Language Acquisi5on

library

BAWE

FLAX – Learning Colloca5ons (BNC, BWE, Wikipedia)

FLAX – Learning Colloca5ons (related colloca5ons, defini5ons, topics)

Cherry picking phrases

Brainstorm keywords from your subject/topic area and fill your cherry basket!

Colloca5on guessing game in FLAX

What can you do with this?

Crea5ve commons content

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h#p://openspires.oucs.ox.ac.uk/resources/index.html#posters

Combining open tools & open content

Open Educa5onal Resources (OER) 24

http://http://openspires.oucs.ox.ac.uk/crunch/

CreaGve Commons Licensing Suite

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterleth/

What is OER?

OER Commons: “Open Educational Resources are

teaching and learning materials that you may freely use and reuse, without charge. OER often have a Creative Commons or GNU license that state specifically how the material may be used, reused, adapted, and shared.”

http://www.slideshare.net/tbirdcymru/itunes-u-corporate-channel-of-

free-educational-resources

h#p://www.slideshare.net/tbirdcymru/itunes-‐u-‐corporate-‐channel-‐of-‐free-‐educaGonal-‐resources

Under the category

“OER Tools and Services”

Services”

Yuan, L., MacNeill, S., Kraan, W. (2008) Open EducaGonal Resources – OpportuniGes and Challenges for Higher EducaGon, Educa&onal Cyberne&cs: Reports 2008, 35. Retrieved from wiki.ceGs.ac.uk


Elements of a successful OER channel

•  A#racGve to contributors •  Usable •  Useful •  Used (and re-‐used) •  Sustainable

Photo courtesy of San Mateo County Library on Flickr


iTunesU OER Success Factors Attractive to contributors

Usable Useful Used Sustainable

Profile ✔ User Experience ✔

Quality material ✔

Download numbers ✔

Over 800 universities ✔

‘Apple gloss’ ✔

Search function ✔

Consistency ✔

Teachers ✔ Apple ✔

International reach ✔

Apple mobile ✔

Copyright ✗ ✔−

Personal ✔ Benefit to contributors/institution ✔

Linux, Android ✗

Feedback ✗ ✔

Not very repurposable ✗ ✔

Discoverability ✗ ✔

Community ✗


It’s all in the downloads

University Downloads

Open University, UK Over 34 million since June 2008

University of Oxford Over 9 million since June 2008

Coventry University 2.5 million in 2010 alone

University of Warwick 1 million Jan ‘09 – June ‘10


Lextutor

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VocabProfile + Web Colloca5ons OER h#p://www.lextutor.ca/vp/

h#p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyZgZhHMovI 33

AntConc freeware – build your own corpus

h#p://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/soUware.html

AntConc video tutorials

h#p://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/antconc_index.html

David Lee’s Corpus-‐based LinguisGcs LINKS

h#p://www.uow.edu.au/~dlee/CBLLinks.htm

h#ps://openeducaGonalresources.pbworks.com/w/page/24836480/Home

Thank you!

Blog: Technology for Open English – Toying with Open E-‐resources h#p://www.alannahfitzgerald.org Twi>er: @AlannahFitz Slideshare:h#p://www.slideshare.net/AlannahOpenEd/ Email: [email protected] [email protected]

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