The Center for Open Educational Resources & Language Learning (COERLL) is one of 16 National Foreign Language Resource Centers (LRC's) funded by the U.S. Department of Education. The overall mission of these federally-funded centers is to improve the teaching and learning of foreign languages by producing resources (materials and best practices) that can be profitably employed in a variety of settings.

URL

http://coerll.utexas.edu/coerll/

Features

Authors info

Creative Commons license info

Subject areas

Foreign Languages

Type

Repository plus Catalog or Directory

Additional information

Mission

COERLL's mission is to produce and disseminate Open Educational Resources (OER) for the Internet public (e.g., online language courses, reference grammars, assessment tools, corpora, etc.). The term OER refers to any educational material offered freely for anyone to use, typically involving some permission to re-mix, improve, and redistribute. Thus, 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 continua.  

OERs can be found here: http://coerll.utexas.edu/coerll/materials

Languages covered include:

Arabic	Chinese	Czech	French	German	Hebrew	Hindi	Italian	Japanese	Malayalam	Persian
Portuguese	Russian	Spanish	Turkish	Yoruba

Comments / evaluation

A useful meta-directory of language learning OER repositories for 16 languages. 

In addition to links to useful language learning repositories, the site contains other useful materials, such as Language Tools and Open Education materials (e.g. Voices for Openness in Language Mearning: http://sites.la.utexas.edu/voices/)

 

Submitted by Andrea Spila
18/05/2015
in the project Sample Library of OERs

last updated 21/05/2015