Open Educational Resources Showcase

For the past three years, language faculty members have been creating Open Educational Resources (OERs) through a pilot of Pressbooks, an online publishing platform, supported by Yale Library, the Poorvu Center, and the Center for Language Study. Professors have leveraged the affordances of Pressbooks and OER concepts - interactivity, multimedia, affordability, accessibility, customizability - to open new opportunities for learning. These online resources are used in Yale classes but are also openly available to online learners from anywhere. This showcase will provide an overview of these projects, their creation processes, and their impact on language learning at Yale. 

Presenters will include (in order of presentations):

1. Theresa Schenker (Wurzeln und Wege - Intermediate German)
2. Jingjing Ao (Designed for You: Chinese Listening Practice)
3. Cynthia DeRoma (Learning idioms functionally: a genre-based approach)
4. Anna Iacovella (Perfetto! An Italian Textbook for Intermediate to Advanced Learners)
5. Angela Lee-Smith (Legal Korean through K-Drama: 'Extraordinary Attorney, Woo Youngwoo' and Business Korean through K-Drama, 'Incomplete Life')
6. Constantine Muravnik (Advanced Russian)
7. Lourdes Sabé (Spanish for Beginners: Engaging with Authentic Materials)

Faculty in the Center for Language Study (CLS) can reach out to kristian.wingo@yale.edu for holistic support in creating Open Educational Resources via Pressbooks.  Faculty in other departments can consult with the library on academic resources and can request an account/technical support by reaching out to library.helpdesk@yale.edu. 

Want to learn more about other pedagogical innovations? Join us right before this session for the Poorvu Center's annual Rosenkranz Award Showcase (2-3:15pm).