Crowdsourcing Open Corpus-based Resources for EAP
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The document discusses the concept of crowdsourcing in relation to open corpus-based resources for English for Academic Purposes (EAP), focusing on various tools and methods such as collocations, podcast corpora, and MOOCs for data-driven learning. It highlights the underutilization of corpus data in language teaching and explores the future implications of open educational resources (OER) in facilitating access to learning materials. Key references illustrate the shift towards flexible, open-access education and the challenges faced in maintaining student engagement in online learning environments.
![MOOC meltdowns
‘Charles Severance ran into the language barrier in week two of his seven-
week course. After 45,000 people signed up, 23,000 actually logged in when
the course began in June. By the end of the first week and the first quiz,
11,000 had stuck around. Not the kind of retention rate Severance was
accustomed to at Michigan, but par for the course in a MOOC.
That’s when Severance made what was, in retrospect, a tactical error. “I
wanted to try the peer assessment as fast as possible,” he says. So he
assigned a short essay -- 400 words or so...that’s when things started to go
awry.
“Probably a third of the students do not have English as a primary
language,” says Severance. “A problem I have never had before is …
suddenly I’ve got people in 15 languages. I’m trying to be subtle and draw
out some insight, [and] they want something they can really translate and
understand.”
After that assignment, the active enrollment in his course dropped to
6,000.’ (Kolowich, 2012)
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Crowdsourcing Open Corpus-based Resources for EAP
- 1. Crowdsourcing open corpus- based resources for EAP http://www.flickr.com/photos/spindexr/5584821686/ Alannah Fitzgerald BALEAP Biennial Conference 2013 The Janus moment in EAP: Revisiting the past and building the future
- 2. Overview Crowdsourcing open corpus-based resources for EAP FLAX Learning Collocations and BAWE collections DIY podcast corpora with Oxford OER Data-Driven Learning for the masses? MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Open doors for EAP
- 3. Crowdsourcing defined Definition of CROWDSOURCING: the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people and especially from the online community rather than from traditional employees or suppliers (Merriam Webster online dictionary, 2013) http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crowdsourcing
- 5. Crowdsourcing open corpus-based resources for EAP
- 6. TOETOE Technology for Open English – Toying with Open E-resources (ˈtɔɪtɔɪ) http://www.alannahfitzgerald.org/394/
- 7. Corpora & language teaching 28 have a say. You 've got to listen. Yeah. Nobody listens to 29 Ah, since when does nobody listen to you? At school they do 30 l do, we 'll do, Paul Paul listen, don't be distracted. We 31 nderstand I 'm on about listen listen to me. You ca n't t 33 ight, had a back to back No listen, this is funny, she lived (BNCspoken) “Using this kind of corpus data, it is possible to find out about features such as word frequency, collocation, and phraseology and to investigate the ways in which words combine with one another in different contexts... However, most language teachers have not started to use this kind of resource in their own teaching, and I have prepared this questionnaire to try to find out more about who is using corpus data, who is not - and why.” (Tribble, 2012) http://www.surveyconsole.com/console/TakeSurvey?id=742964
- 8. What about corpora for..? • Online learning? • Informal learning? • MOOCs using open-source platforms? • Across different modes of education o f2f and online?
- 9. Cutting out the middleman in DDL ... the attempt to cut out the middleman as far as possible and to give the learner direct access to the data (Johns, 1991) • Access to corpus-based resources in mainstream language education o Design and usability of interfaces o Openness of corpus-based resources
- 10. Cutting out the middleman i http://meaganobrien.com/frontbad/
- 11. FLAX Learning Collocations and BAWE collections
- 12. Love is a stranger in an open car to tempt you in and drive you far away...toward OEP http://www.alannahfitzgerald.org/love-is-a-stranger-in-an-open-car-who-tempts-you-in-and-drives-you-far-away/
- 13. Training Videos for FLAX on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Ox6RCVWy0
- 14. FLAX British Academic Written English (B http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26i_Y146GOs
- 15. UEfAP & Writing for a Purpose: Can we crowdsource this approach to EAP materials development? http://www.uefap.com/index.htm 15
- 16. DIY podcast corpora with Oxford OER
- 17. University of Oxford OER http://openspires.oucs.ox.ac.uk/resources/index.html#posters 17
- 19. FLAX Do-It-Yourself Podcast Corpora with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si24d3Z-8nQ
- 20. Build YouTube into your FLAX collections
- 21. FLAX Do-It-Yourself Podcast Corpora 2: Bui http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fysDzYjbhh0
- 22. Open Dissemination Channels for ELT Russell Stannard - Teacher Training Videos http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com
- 24. Data-Driven Learning for the masses?
- 25. MOOCs and the Massive Potential for EAP Resources Development http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/join-next-weeks-mooc-of-moocs-at-hybrid-pedagogy/41485
- 26. The end of the university as we know it “The future looks like this: Access to college-level education will be free for everyone; the residential college campus will become largely obsolete; tens of thousands of professors will lose their jobs; the bachelor’s degree will become increasingly irrelevant; and ten years from now Harvard will enroll ten million students.” (Harden, 2013) http://www.the-american-interest.com/article.cfm?piece=1352
- 27. From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: What you really need to know about the Internet “We’re in the midst of a major upheaval in our information environment, and none of us has any real idea of where it will end up. So we need to put it into perspective. As it happens, Johannes Gutenberg triggered a comparable revolution five and a half centuries ago when he introduced printing by moveable type. His invention shaped the world into which we the Internet was born. What can we learn from that experience?” (Naughton, 2011)
- 28. MOOC meltdowns ‘Charles Severance ran into the language barrier in week two of his seven- week course. After 45,000 people signed up, 23,000 actually logged in when the course began in June. By the end of the first week and the first quiz, 11,000 had stuck around. Not the kind of retention rate Severance was accustomed to at Michigan, but par for the course in a MOOC. That’s when Severance made what was, in retrospect, a tactical error. “I wanted to try the peer assessment as fast as possible,” he says. So he assigned a short essay -- 400 words or so...that’s when things started to go awry. “Probably a third of the students do not have English as a primary language,” says Severance. “A problem I have never had before is … suddenly I’ve got people in 15 languages. I’m trying to be subtle and draw out some insight, [and] they want something they can really translate and understand.” After that assignment, the active enrollment in his course dropped to 6,000.’ (Kolowich, 2012) http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/08/30/first-humanities-mooc-professors-road-test-courseras-peer-grading-model# ixzz2Qq92NBi2
- 29. Open doors for EAP
- 30. Crowdsourcing opportunities for EAP? • High quality OER for research-driven resources development and teaching at your fingertips • Open Access publications released under creative commons licences for use in OER derivatives • Open source software for DIY corpora at your disposal • Open channels for resource dissemination (MOOCs, YouTube, TTV, open repositories) • Flexible OER for EAP across alternative modes of delivery (f2f and online) • Brokers in online peer and language learning support?
- 31. UK OER International Synthesis Report (HEA) “There will also be future implications for embedding OER practice by using OER/ OCW as a channel for promoting institutional research outputs. The promotion of institutional research, in the light of the Finch (2012) report ‘Accessibility, sustainability, excellence: how to expand access to research publications’ as part of the new UK government research funding mechanism and the changes to research outputs being more open from 2014 should be a driver for expansion of OER.” (HEA, 2013)
- 34. References • Johns, T. (1991). From printout to handout: grammar and vocabulary teaching in the context of data-driven learning. In: T. Johns & P. King (Eds.), Classroom Concordancing. English Language Research Journal, 4: 27-45. • Kolowich, S. (2012). Learning from one another. Inside Higher Ed, August 30. Retrieved from http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/08/30/first-humanities-mooc- professors-road-test-courseras-peer-grading-model • Naughton, J. (2011). From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: What you really need to know about the Internet. Quercus, London. • Thomas, A., Gomaz, S. & Fenlon, A. (2013) UK OER International Synthesis Draft Report. The Higher Education Academy. Retrieved from http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/detail/oer-phase-3-4ai- international • Tribble, C. (2012). Teaching and Language Corpora Survey. Retrieved from http://www.surveyconsole.com/console/TakeSurvey?id=742964 • Harden, N. (2013). The end of the university as we know it. The American Interest. Retrieved from http://www.the-american- interest.com/article.cfm?piece=1352
- 35. Email: fitzgerald@education.concordia.ca; shaoqun@waikato.ac.nz FLAX Language: flax.nzdl.org; Twitter: @AlannahFitz Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/AlannahOpenEd/ Blog: Technology for Open English – Toying with Open E-resources www.alannahfitzgerald.org
Editor's Notes
- #18: Well-resourced – ou – ebooks, lectures and more – not able to identify individuals as made by teams Podcasts – oxford – 40% cc – highlighting stars China – Nottingham – campus at Ningbo instead of having to use youtube which is blocked uNow Representing the ethos of the institutions The best marketing is great learning material – Martin Bean
- #19: A new method of giving individual items individual licenses in the metadata is apparently on its way
- #23: August 16, 2010