1. Open Content and Pedagogy Anna Comas-Quinn Senior Lecturer in Spanish, Associate Head of Department Department of Languages, The Open University MFL TeachMeet, Downe House School 17 June 2015

2. r Slide by Josie Fraser

4. Overview Languages at The Open University OpenLearn iTunesU Mobile apps The LORO repository (OER) Online communities @OULanguages SpeakGlobal Routes into Languages London Centre for Languages and Cultures DigiLit Leicester

5. Languages at The Open University English, Spanish, French, German, Italian & Chinese to 8000 part-time, adult language students. Blended approach: independent study using mixed media and support inc. face-to-face, synchronous and asynchronous online teaching. Course materials produced centrally, teaching support provided locally. Course developers and coordinators (40+) and tutors (250 part-time teachers).

7. Languages at the OU on iTunes U 12 collections (309 assets) of audio and video resources iBooks Languages materials represent less than 10% of OU iTunes U materials But they account for nearly a third of downloads for OU materials on iTunes U (20 million downloads) Top 10 download languages collections 30/3/2015

8. Mobile Learning (MALL) Educational advantages: i) learn on the go and in small bites; ii) audio, visual, writing, pinyin, English in one interactive medium; iii) interactive, game-like Technical advantages: i) work offline; ii) developers can update it when necessary Learner oriented – assist learners at the point of need and fit in with their mobile life style

9. Chinese Characters App Content: 400 plus characters. 20 lessons chronologically build upon each other. Each lesson has 4 sections: Writing Practice Listening Test Reading Test Word Search

10. http://loro.open.ac.uk

11. Languages Open Resources Online LORO is about:...making all teaching materials for all levels and languages available to all users; …making OU tutorial materials available to the wider languages community; …allowing users to share their own materials with the whole languages community; …starting a change in the way we work (OER, access, transparency, quality).

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18. Do get in touch for more information on any of these projects. Thanks! Anna Comas-Quinn Anna.Comas-Quinn@open.ac.uk @AComasQuinn (Slide 5 adapted from Fernando Rosell-Aguilar, and slides 6 & 7 adapted from Qian Kan)

19. Links www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/languages www.open.edu/itunes/subjects/languages http://loro.open.ac.uk www.open.ac.uk/blogs/LORO https://www.routesintolanguages.ac.uk/resource s/library/speakglobal-resource https://www.routesintolanguages.ac.uk/resource s/library/speakglobal-resource http://www.digilitleic.com/ www.research-publishing.net/publications/2013- beaven-comas-quinn-sawhill/ www.research-publishing.net/publications/2013- beaven-comas-quinn-sawhill/