OER Repositories Guide, Remixed for World Languages
Overview
This guide was remixed using ISKME's OER Faculty Starter Guide found here: https://www.oercommons.org/courses/oer-online-learning-faculty-quick-start-guide/view
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This guide was remixed using ISKME's OER Faculty Starter Guide found here: OER Faculty Quick Start Guide
Unless otherwise noted, this guide is licensed by the Pathways Project under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. We encourage users to remix, adapt, and select portions or the entirety of this document to meet their individual needs.
Click the image below for materials in these repositories specific to world languages.
Provides access to thousands of discipline-specific learning materials contributed by the member community. | Allows search for OER from hundreds of sources. Developed by SUNY Geneseo's Milne Library.
| OER Commons - A public library of OER with tools for content authoring & remixing. Also provides collaborative workspaces for creating, curating, and discussing OER. |
Open Media Collections
Click the image below for materials in these repositories. You can use the search function to find an image relevant to your unit/theme, etc.
Looking for an image to use in a presentation or an activity? There are over 600 million open images you can search for here. | The link takes you to the image page where you can use the search filters on the left to find something in a region of the world (great for language teachers!) | Millions of books, recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts—all in the public domain for use and reuse by all. | Free online access to art from around the world. There are also virtual tours of museums and landmarks. |
*There are many open design sites that come in handy, too. We’ll be showcasing these later.
Open Repositories For World Language Teaching (that we love)
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Storyweaver | Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning | OLRC |
A digital repository of multilingual stories for children from Pratham Books. The image above provides a link where you can use the filter to find a story in the language you teach and according to reading level (a tremendous feature for language teachers!) You can also create a story of your own and with their helpful tools online. They are a committed open access, high quality digital repository. Read more about their open philosophy here. Click on the image above to check them out.
If you scroll down to the bottom of any of their pages, you can stay updated via social media. You can also change the language of the entire site.
Did you know? If you use Nearpod or Pear deck, you can download a story as a pdf and then upload it to Nearpod or Peardeck and add interactive features to aid with comprehension. | COERLL is one of 16 National Foreign Language Resource Centers (LRC's) funded by the U.S. Department of Education. COERLL seeks to promote a culture of collaboration that lies at the heart of the Open Education movement. In addition, COERLL aims to reframe foreign language education in terms of bilingualism and/or multilingualism. As such, all COERLL resources strive to represent more accurately language development and performance along dialectal and proficiency. Stay updated by getting on their mailing list.
| OLRC is also one of 16 LRC’s. The OLRC focuses on the creation of Open Educational Resources for language learners at the secondary and post-secondary level. Discover the wide range of resources being created by the OLRC, including complete curricula for French, German, KiSwahili, Spanish, Turkish, Russian, Ukrainian, and supplemental materials for many more languages. Stay updated by getting on their mailing list. |