Mathieu Publishes & Presents on Student Driven OER
Lionel Mathieu has published and also presented (at the 2019 Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium conference) findings from a project on student-driven Open Educational Resources (OER). Lionel, a lecturer in French here at BU, worked on this project in conjunction with language faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University. The project aimed to addres waning enrollments in intermediate level language classes by placing students at the center of their language study.
Lionel explains:
The goal of this project is to place greater importance on students’ involvement/engagement in their own linguistic and cultural learning via participatory research. The mantra of it all can be summed up as follows: learning by doing (and doing primarily what is of interest to learners).
The faculty team set up an online platform for students to collect and curate authentic materials and additionally provided the opportunity for students to interact with native speakers about their curations via tele-collaborative exchanges. The faculty also worked closely with advanced students to reformat the best curations into online interactive learning modules, and they integrated these curations, virtual exchanges, and modules into an Open Educational Resource (OER) e-textbook.