Dialogue, Community, and the Creation of OER
Since COERLL began in August 2010, the biggest lesson we’ve learned is that open educational resources (OER) are the products of a community of end users. Just as Wikipedia is the result of its...
View ArticleGive Us Some Credit!
It’s an exciting time. We’re seeing the next phase of open education happening: progress toward accreditation for open online learning. We thought we’d share the latest news in this welcome trend.read...
View ArticleLanguage Knowmads Wanted
We found a kindred thinker in education futurologist, John Moravec at the University of Minnesota — take a look at his vision for Society 3.0 (that’s us!). Moravec describes members of Society 3.0 as...
View Article5 Ways to Open Up Corpora for Language Learning
Corpora developed by linguists to study languages are a promising source of authentic materials to employ in the development of OER for language learning. Recently, COERLL’s SpinTX Corpus-to-Classroom...
View ArticleFree Online Professional Development for Foreign Language Educators
Skip the convention centers and stuffy conference halls. COERLL will be bringing an exciting professional development opportunity directly to your home or office or fave coffee house, where ever you’re...
View ArticleJoin Our June 19 Webinar!
The Practice of Using and Teaching with OERWednesday, June 19, 3 p.m. – 4 p.m.Go to https://meeting.austin.utexas.edu/coerll-june-webinars to login and join the event.Presenters: Garin Fons (COERLL),...
View ArticleMaximize Your ACTFL 2013 Convention Experience — Earn A Digital Badge
If you’re attending the 2013 ACTFL convention in Orlando, we wanted to let you know about an exciting opportunity to earn a digital badge called the “Convention Networker.”read more
View ArticleThe State of "Open" (2013)
Oops. I forgot to post my notes from a webinar I gave last year. I was asked to speak about "The State of OER" to AMICAL, a consortium of American liberal arts universities outside the US. No big...
View ArticleFrom "Open" to Justice #OpenCon2014
Here are the transcript and slides from the talk I gave this morning at OpenCon 2014. I was a little nervous as to how well this would be received -- nothing like challenging the meaning of a word that...
View ArticleCompany Creates Video Pen Pal Technology, Seeks Teacher Support
Company Creates Video Pen Pal Technology, Seeks Teacher Support by Saksham Khosla, LumenEd Across the world, there is a widespread demand for young people to address major issues of global significance...
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