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HCII 2021: Learning and Collaboration Technologies: New Challenges and Learning Experiences pp 65–79Cite as

Open Educational Resources for Language Education: Towards the Development of an e-Toolkit

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The Open Educational Resources (OER) movement is overgrowing over the last 15 years, as many institutions adopt the idea of openness and universal access to educational content. Thus, the research and educational material must be open to everyone interested, including students, adult learners, teachers, professionals, managers, and policymakers. With this in mind, the creation and use of OER is a current educational practice for educators around the world. This manuscript aims to provide an overview of all the core elements for creating, using, and sharing quality multilingual and interactive OERs for Language Education. Specifically, the paper provides an extensive summary of existing language OERs and Open Educational Practices (OEPs), including some important definitions, highlighting the most significant characteristics and challenges in adopting OERs for educational purposes. This review will help language teachers, students, and researchers to create, share, and use quality multilingual and interactive OERs for language learning in their teaching practices.

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This work has been partially funded by the European Union’s ErasmusPlus programme, grant agreement: 2018-1-EL01-KA203-047967 (Project: OPENLang Network). This publication reflects the views only of the authors, and the European Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained here.

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Kosmas, P., Parmaxi, A., Perifanou, M., Economides, A.A. (2021). Open Educational Resources for Language Education: Towards the Development of an e-Toolkit. In: Zaphiris, P., Ioannou, A. (eds) Learning and Collaboration Technologies: New Challenges and Learning Experiences. HCII 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12784. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77889-7_5

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