Session 12, Room B, Presentation 12 2022 FL OER Conference

Better Together: Librarian Faculty Collaboration in Language OER Creation
Regina Gong, Michigan State University
Rajiv Ranjan, Michigan State University
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This presentation will highlight the collaboration between an OER librarian and a faculty OER creator and how we leverage that partnership to provide unique and engaging materials. We will hone in on the creation of OER in the less-commonly taught languages and how the MSU OER award program enabled faculty to transform their courses away from traditional commercial textbooks. We have already published a Basic Hindi textbook and will be publishing a Basic Urdu textbook later this spring. Both are designed as interactive, tech-enhanced, online theme-based textbooks that could be used by an instructor in a course or by a student working independently. These open textbooks aim to develop linguistic, communicative, and cultural competence, and help novice learners to achieve Novice High to Intermediate Low level at the ACTFL scale. They are informed by multiple theories of second language acquisition such as sociocultural theory, interactionist approaches, and use different pedagogical approaches. This textbook was also designed to support different types of teaching strategies such as implicit and explicit; inductive and deductive, etc. As there is a lack of online resources and game-like activities for LCTLs, our OER incorporate interactive activities using H5P that have built-in feedback to gamify the learning experience and to engage the users of the book.
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