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The Language OER Network (LOERN, pronounced ‘learn’) showcases the work of open educators in the field of language learning and teaching. If you are a language educator who uses, creates, or promotes open educational resources (OER) and open educational practices (OEP), COERLL would like to recognize your innovations by listing your name here and by assigning to you a COERLL digital badge. (A digital badge is an online representation of earned knowledge or skills.)

UPDATE: The LOERN project has ended and we are no longer accepting submissions to be featured on this page. Visit the COERLL website to learn about our OER for language teaching and learning.
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    OER Ambassador Badge

    An OER Ambassador is someone who actively promotes foreign language OER by sharing and modeling various open educational practices (OEP): e.g. giving a conference presentation, networking in an open educational forum, writing an article or blog about OER, facilitating an OER/OEP workshop, mentoring a student or teacher about Open Education, etc.

    Tomonori Nagano
    Affiliation: LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
    Compiling a list of OER resources for Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs)
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    Natasha Maria Gomes
    Affiliation: Goa University
    I have mentored faculty on using CC licensed content and along with my team, I have created CC licensed resources.
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    Regina Gong
    Affiliation: Michigan State University
    I have been supporting our foreign language faculty through our OER Program.
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    Paul Blackman
    Affiliation: Barbados Language Centre, Barbados Community College
    I am an advocate for OER in my institution and country. Have presented at conferences and webinars on OER in language teaching and learning.
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    Liana Stepanyan
    Affiliation: USC
    I have created a website for OER and collaborate with various educators to create OER materials. I teach using OER and promote OER
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    Lisa Notman
    Affiliation: Portland State University
    I have co-authored an OER Spanish textbook and co-presented about OERs at 3 conferences and co-authored a forthcoming article about OERs.
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    Jamie Fudacz
    Affiliation: University of Southern California
    I have presented on the Feliz en la Comunidad OER service-learning program that I co-direct.
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    Maria Mercedes Fages Agudo
    Affiliation: University of Southern California
    I have presented on the Feliz en la Comunidad OER service-learning program that I co-direct.
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    Elena Martín-Monje
    Affiliation: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain
    I have researched extensively on Language MOOCs (Massive, Open, Online Courses) and created a master’s course on Open Language Learning.
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    Julie Shoults
    Affiliation: Muhlenberg College
    I took part in piloting an OER for two years and contributed resources to a shared drive. I presented at two conferences on my work.
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    Jeannette Okur
    Affiliation: University of Texas at Austin
    Since 2017, I have given 7 conference presentations, panel workshops or webinars related to my own OER and the use of OERs in L2 pedagogy.
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    Marion Crackower
    Affiliation: Louisiana State University
    I created a course packet that is available as an OER resource and I participated on the OER conference by the University of Kansas.
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    Kelly Arispe
    Affiliation: Boise State University
    I am the Co-Director of the Pathways Project and I have given over 5 presentations on OER
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    Sean Gullickson
    Affiliation: University of Kansas
    I've shared the OER that I created and edited at a recent conference, have attended several workshops on OER, and recommended OER resources
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    Sumor Sheppard
    Affiliation: Prairie View A & M University
    I have given a presentation on OER to increase visibility in the FL classroom,. I have implemented OER in Program as the FL Coordinator.
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    Jessica Miller
    Affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
    I have given a presentation on using OER to diversify the French curriculum.
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    Vivian Flanzer
    Affiliation: University of Texas at Austin
    Wrote OERs (website and book), teach with these materials, gave dozens of conference presentation/workshops on this issue
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    Rebecca Allison
    Affiliation: University of Colorado Boulder
    Provided pedagogical and technical guidance for the Thai Open Educational Resources that were created by ALTEC at CU Boulder.
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    Renata Creekmur
    Affiliation: Kennesaw State University
    I co-presented on "Using OER to Enhance Italian Language and Culture Classes" (with F. Santini and A. Scapolo) at ACTFL 2019.
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    Lionel Mathieu
    Affiliation: Boston University
    I have co-presented 6 professional presentations and co-authored 1 professional article on student-driven and -generated OER content.
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    Andrea Scapolo
    Affiliation: Kennesaw State University
    I co-presented on "Using OER to Enhance Italian Language and Culture Classes" (with R. Creekmur and F. Santini) at ACTFL 2019.
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    Federica Santini
    Affiliation: Kennesaw State University
    I co-presented on "Using OER to Enhance Italian Language and Culture Classes" (with R. Creekmur and A. Scapolo) at ACTFL 2019.
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    Margherita Berti
    Affiliation: University of Arizona
    Gave three presentations addressing the development and use of OER. Wrote an article and book chapter (forthcoming) explaining OER and OEP.
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    Michael Dabrowski
    Affiliation: Athabasca University
    In addition to the presentations listed below, I advocate OER and OEP to colleagues, graduate and undergraduate students
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    Amber Hoye
    Affiliation: Boise State University
    I established Boise State's Pathways Language Teaching Repository via OER Commons, oversee 20+ who contribute to the site
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    Julianne Hammink
    Affiliation: University of Arizona
    I have presented at 2 conferences, trained faculty, and given a workshop for K-12 instructors on the use of OER
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    Tita Beaven
    Affiliation: Open University
    I have authored OER and worked on a number of OEP activities at the UK Open University
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    Kathryn Murphy-Judy
    Affiliation: Virginia Commonwealth University
    I'm leading 7 language team to create OER for intermediate language learning.
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    Steel Wagstaff
    Affiliation: University of Wisconsin
    I have been working to develop an authoring tool that allows language teachers to publish free and open language textbooks.
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    Anita Young
    Affiliation: World of Learning- Appalachia Intermediate Unit 8
    I have created OER resources and I have provided professional learning with OER resources.
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    Karen Bjork
    Affiliation: Portland State University
    I manage PSU's open textbook publishing program and have presented several workshops on open access textbook publishing
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    Todd Bryant
    Affiliation: Dickinson College
    I created the Mixxer (www.language-exchanges.org), have submitted student mods of the game Civ V to Merlot, and written about openness.
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    Joshua Thoms
    Affiliation: Utah State University
    I research and present on various topics related to open education and L2 learning and teaching.
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    Joerdis Weilandt
    Affiliation: University of Lethbridge/ Goethe-Institute Toronto
    Disseminates knowledge relating to OER/ OE in a number of PD workshops and incorporates found/modified/created materials into teaching.
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    Amanda Dalola
    Affiliation: University of South Carolina
    As moderator of the Français Interactif (FI) Facebook page, spreads the word about OER for learning French.
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    Teresa MacKinnon
    Affiliation: University of Warwick
    Chairs the OER SIG, develops badges for open educators, presents internationally on OER.
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    Jocelly Meiners
    Affiliation: University of Texas at Austin
    As the Community Moderator for COERLL's Heritage Spanish project, Jocelly shares her work and encourages colleagues to do the same.
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    OER Reviewer Badge

    An OER Reviewer is a teacher who writes an evaluation or a review of an OER by another teacher in the language he or she teaches. Evidence can include proof of membership in an editorial board, or a review in a blog or a repository such as MERLOT, OER Commons, or Open Textbook Library (University of Minnesota).

    Anna Marrero-Rivera
    Affiliation: Arizona State University
    I reviewed 8 Spanish as a heritage language online thematic units.
    Lydia Vazquez
    Affiliation: El Palso Community College
    I reviewed the OER text "Reflexiones sobre nuestra lengua" for the Texas Coalition for Heritage Spanish.
    Valerie Morgan
    Affiliation: California State University, San Bernardino
    I wrote review of Francais Interactif tied to Google Tools on Merlot.org
    Sarah Harmon
    Affiliation: California Community Colleges
    I was on a panel of reviewers for the State of California OER Review, a coalition of reviewers from CA public higher ed institutions.
    Shahla Adel
    Affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    I wrote a review of FLLITE lessons
    Kate Paesani
    Affiliation: University of Minnesota
    As a member of the FLLITE Editorial Board, I conducted a blind review of a participating student's lesson plan draft.
    Robert Davis
    Affiliation: University of Oregon - Romance Languages
    I have reviewed several projects for the FLLITE project
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    OER Master Creator Badge

    An OER Master Creator is a student or teacher who creates an OER based mainly on original content. In this case, an OER is more ambitious than a single lesson plan and usually includes a set of materials, e.g., a set of readings or grammar exercises or even a thematic unit. All OER must carry an appropriate CC license.

    Aleksandar Boskovic
    Milica Iličić
    I developed a curriculum, digital textbook, and multimedia learning resourcecs for Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, published as OER.
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    Antonio Valencia
    I´m chief editor at Books4Languages.com and I´m the creator of some vocabulary books
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    Fernando Castro Ortiz
    We wrote a textbook called 'Salón de Clase: Intermediate Spanish for Education Professionals' and shared it using a CC BY-NC 4.0 license
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    Giovanni Zimotti
    I wrote a textbook called: "Salón de clase: Intermediate Spanish for Education Professionals"
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    Juan Godoy
    Affiliation: University of Cincinnati
    I desgined a OER website to promote the teaching of languages and social justice. Materials and resources are available to be downloaded.
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    Sadam Issa
    Affiliation: Michigan State University
    I wrote two Arabic textbooks, one for Arabic beginner (first semester Arabic) and the other for elementary Arabic (second semester Arabic).
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    Ayman Mohamed
    Affiliation: Michigan State University
    I created open-source textbooks for beginner and elementary Arabic which was edited and published by Michigan State University libraries
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    Jill Kuhnheim
    Affiliation: Brown University
    I co-authored and OER textbook called "Para vivir con salud: Leyendo la salud y la literatura, WIth Kathryn McKnight.ivir con salud
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    Kathryn McKnight
    Affiliation: University of New Mexico
    I co-authored a textbook called "Para vivir con salud: leyendo la salud y la literatura" and share it using a CC By license.
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    Kelsey Harper
    Affiliation: Butler Community College
    I developed an OER course for Spanish for Culinary Arts and shared it using a CC BY-NC-SA license.
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    Christopher Pinto
    Affiliation: Citrus College
    I created two extensive American Sign Language OERs, complete with instructional videos and supplementals.
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    Lisa Notman
    Affiliation: Portland State University
    I co-authored "Beginning Spanish, ¡Empecemos por aquí!" It is a first year Spanish textbook for adult learners and uses a CC-By-NC license.
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    Oleksandra Wallo
    Affiliation: University of Kansas
    I created "Dobra forma," an open-education web-based overview of basic Ukrainian grammar with contextualized activities.
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    Stacy Giufre
    Affiliation: UMass Amherst
    I wrote a textbook with M. Masterson called "Tutt* a tavola" and shared it using a CC BY NC license.
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    Melina Masterson
    Affiliation: University of Massachusetts
    I co-wrote a textbook called Tutt* a tavola and shared it using a CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
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    Jeannette Okur
    Affiliation: University of Texas at Austin
    I wrote a textbook and interactive supplementary materials called <Her Şey Bir Merhaba ile Başlar< and shared it using a CC BY SA license.
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    Michael Arnold
    Affiliation: University of Minnesota
    I coauthored a textbook called "Ingresos: Introducción al español comercial" and shared it using a CC BY-NC license.
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    Sean Gullickson
    Affiliation: University of Kansas
    Working with graduate students, edited and contributed to textbook Propias palabras, shared on Pressbooks with CC BY NC license
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    Chiara Montera
    Affiliation: University of Pittsburgh
    My language coordinator and I created two OERs for our students of Italian 0101 and 0102 and shared it with CC-BY license.
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    Marion Crackower
    Affiliation: Louisiana State University
    I wrote a textbook called "Fourth Semester French: French Language Competency for the Global Workforce. and shared it using a CC BY license.
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    Stacey Alex
    Affiliation: Morningside University
    We wrote a textbook called Mi idioma, mi comunidad: español para bilingües, for Spanish heritage learners, with a CC BY-NC-ND license.
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    Erin Huebener
    Affiliation: Spokane Community College
    I wrote a Spanish textbook (Libro Libre) & coordinated student authorship of practice activities, shared with CC By SA-NC 4.0 licenses.
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    Carl Polley
    Affiliation: University of Hawaii, Kapiolani CC
    I wrote a textbook called "Elementary Mandarin I" for first-semester Chinese and published it on LibreTexts (CC-SA-NC-BY license).
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    Elena Foulis
    Affiliation: Ohio State University
    We wrote a textbook called Mi idioma, mi comunidad: español para bilingües, for beginner heritage learners, with a CC BY-NC-ND license.
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    Juan Carlos Rocha Osornio
    Affiliation: University of Toronto
    I wrote the open access textbook titled 'A parar bien la oreja: cuaderno de comprensión auditiva'.
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    Daniela Viale
    Affiliation: Muhlenberg College
    I co-created an original elementary curriculum called "Spunti" shared with a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike license
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    Erika Berroth
    Affiliation: Southwestern University
    I co-authored Grenzenlos Deutsch, an open online curriculum for beginning German; CC-BY-NC-SA.
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    Henriette Gezundhajt
    Affiliation: York University
    We wrote a textbook called "Résumer, synthétiser, argumenter" and shared it using a CC BY license
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    Jessica Miller
    Affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
    I wrote an intermediate-level OER textbook titled "Unités" and am in the process of writing more.
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    Kris Knisely
    Affiliation: University of Arizona
    I create OERs to support language educators with teaching to and about trans and nonbinary people, particularly in French.
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    Amy Young
    Affiliation: Central College
    I am one of the co-directors of Grenzenlos Deutsch, BY-NC-SA license.
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    Lisa Connell
    Affiliation: University of West Georgia
    I created an interactive website, Français interactif: Devoirs, with original ancillary materials for an existing OER, Français interactif.
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    Claire Ezekiel
    Affiliation: University of West Georgia
    I created an interactive website, Français interactif: Devoirs, with original ancillary materials for an existing OER, Français interactif.
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    Brigetta (Britt) Abel
    Affiliation: Macalester College
    I am the co-lead author of Grenzenlos Deutsch, a complete first-year curriculum for German language instruction (CC-BY-NC-SA).
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    Alejandra Escudero
    Affiliation: SUNY Oneonta
    I am a co-author of a beginner Spanish textbook called ¡Chévere! We created it using a CC BY license.
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    Daniel Verdugo
    Affiliation: Ann Arbor Public Schools
    I created an openly licensed template for teachers to create magazines with their students.
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    Brigitte Humbert
    Affiliation: Middlebury College
    I created an open web site where users can drop by anytime and from anywhere, to practice and improve their French grammar by playing games
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    Meredith Clark
    Affiliation: Region 10 Educational Service Center
    I co-wrote a project for Spanish Heritage teachers and learners. It consists of four clusters of three, TEKS aligned lessons.
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    Andrea Scapolo
    Affiliation: Kennesaw State University
    Having received an Affordable Learning Georgia Textbook TraI co-created a OER textbook for first-year Italian language and culture courses
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    Federica Santini
    Affiliation: Kennesaw State University
    I co-authored (with R. creekmur and A. Scapolo) a OER textbook for first-year Italian language and culture courses.
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    Renata Creekmur
    Affiliation: Kennesaw State University
    I co-authored an open Italian textbook: Creekmur, Renata; Santini, Federica; and Scapolo, Andrea, "Elementary Italian I & II" (2019).
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    Alicia Soueid
    Affiliation: The University of Texas at Arlington
    I wrote a textbook called 'Tout un monde: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Intermediate French" and shared it using a CC By license.
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    Rose Potter
    Affiliation: The University of Texas at Austin
    Co-author of Recorridos and collaborator with the COERLL
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    Lin Hong
    Affiliation: Central Oregon Community College
    I wrote a textbook called "OER Begining Chinese" and shared it using a CC BY license on Google Drive.
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    Michael Dabrowski
    Affiliation: Athabasca University
    I have created an online first-year Spanish Grammar textbook, shared using a CC BY-SA
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    Catherine Anderson
    Affiliation: McMaster University
    Wrote and compiled OER Essentials of Linguistics with CC-BY-SA license
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    Alan Ng
    Affiliation: University of Wisconsin
    I created and maintain the OER textbook "A Foundation Course in Reading German"
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    Nijay Gupta
    Affiliation: George Fox University
    Through an advanced language course I taught, I oversaw the development of an intermediate language textbook by 8 of my graduate students.
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    Jenny Bourne
    Affiliation: University of Lethbridge
    I co-created an OER website for EAP students.
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    Kyungah Yoon
    Affiliation: Portland State University
    I authored an online textbook titled Korean Through Folktales.
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    Joy Egbert
    Affiliation: Washington State University
    I wrote a textbook called "CALL Principles and Practices" and shared it using a CC BY license"
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    Della Abrahams
    Affiliation: Portland State University
    I wrote a textbook called "Communication Beginnings: An Introductory Listening and Speaking Text for English Language Learners".
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    Alice Emery
    Affiliation: Gateway Community College
    I wrote a textbook called "Convivencia: Activities for Spanish Learners" and shared it by using a CC-BY-NC-SA license."
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    Seyed Abdollah Shahrokni
    Affiliation: Washington State University
    I wrote a book in Farsi called "CALLing on MOODLE: Theory and Practice," and shared it using a CC BY NC ND license.
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    Julie Ward
    Affiliation: The University of Oklahoma
    I edited a student-created OER called the /Antología abierta de literatura hispana/ and shared it under a CC-BY license.
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    David Thompson
    Affiliation: Luther College
    I created a series of problem-based learning units for advanced students of Spanish.
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    Arthur Wendorf
    Affiliation: Northeastern State University
    I helped with the creation of the SpinTX video archive.
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    David Shorter
    I created Vachiam Eecha in 2003 and then the Wiki for Indigenous Languages in 2011.
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    Margarita Casas
    Affiliation: Linn-Benton Community College
    I wrote materials to teach Spanish for heritage speakers at the college level.
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    Jeff Kendrick
    Affiliation: University of Kansas, Virginia Military Institue
    I created and co-authored a website called "French à la mode" and shared it using a CC BY license.
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    Antonella Del Fattore
    Affiliation: The University of Texas at Austin
    I co-authored with Eric Edwards 'Radio Arlecchino' - Italian Grammar and Culture Podcast
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    Kelley León Howarth
    Affiliation: University of Oregon
    I collaborated on writing some activities for the OER Empowering Learners of Spanish unit.
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    Anita Young
    Affiliation: World of Learning- Appalachia Intermediate Unit 8
    I design curriculum to be used for Spanish teaching in the World of Learning program and convert it to OERs to share with other teachers.
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    Munia Cabal-Jiménez
    Affiliation: Western Illinois University
    I wrote two open source units on History of Spaninsh and Intuitive Grammar for Spanish as a HL and shared it using a CC BY SA license.
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    Robert Davis
    Affiliation: University of Oregon - Romance Languages
    Online materials for teaching Critical Metalinguistic Awareness in Spanish/English/Spanglish
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    Joanna Luks
    Affiliation: Independent (retired from Cornell University)
    I wrote an open textbook, Le Littéraire dans le quotidien, and am co-director of the FLLITE Project.
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    Asimiyu Adekunle
    Affiliation: African Language Teachers Association (ALTA)
    I assisted in writing of Yorùbá textbook 'Yorùbá Yé Mi' for open access. The material is an eye-opener.
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    Orlando Kelm
    Affiliation: University of Texas at Austin
    Creator and host of podcast series "Língua da Gente," "Conversa Brasileira," "Tá Falado"
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    Sergio Romero
    Affiliation: University of Texas of Austin
    I directed the development of 42 units of freeware pedagogical materials for K'iche' Maya self-instruction.
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    Vivian Flanzer
    Affiliation: University of Texas at Austin
    I created a free website called "ClicaBrasil: Portuguese Language and Culture to Intermediate Students"
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    Lina Gomaa
    Affiliation: Portland State University
    Wrote "From MSA to CA: A Beginner’s guide for transitioning into Colloquial Arabic "
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    Irene Fernandez-Palacios
    Affiliation: North Shore Community College
    Created the entire curriculum for the course Elementary Spanish 1 for Health Professionals.
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    Stephanie Roulon
    Affiliation: Portland State University
    Co-wrote the open French textbook "Histoires d'Avenirs".
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    Sonia Balasch
    Affiliation: Eastern Mennonite University
    I coauthored "Español y cultura en perspectiva", a series of culture and reading units for 300-level Spanish students.
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    Lisa Rabin
    Affiliation: George Mason University
    I coauthored "Español y cultura en perspectiva", a series of culture and reading units for 300-level Spanish students.
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    Robert Sanders
    Affiliation: Portland State University
    I authored an annotated anthology of Spanish literature focused on the theme of Romantic legends and archetypes
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    Juan Tahay
    Co-created an open course for Maya K'iche' that incorporates audiovisual materials.
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    José Ignacio Carvajal Regidor
    Affiliation: University of Texas at Austin
    Co-created an open course for Maya K'iche' that incorporates audiovisual materials.
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    Megan Schacht
    Affiliation: Parkway Schools
    As the Langauges Facilitator at Parkway Schools, worked with colleagues to use OER to create thematic units for 5 languages.
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    Claudia Holguin Mendoza
    Affiliation: University of Oregon
    Part of a team that wrote "Empowering Learners of Spanish", a collection of activities based on Critical Pedagogies/Critical Language Awareness.
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    OER Creator Badge

    An OER Creator is a student or teacher who creates or adapts a short OER, such as a single activity or lesson plan. Adapting an OER usually means revising a work or remixing several works into a coherent whole, in order to create a new derivative. All OER must carry an appropriate CC license.

    John Gruber-Miller
    Affiliation: Cornell College
    Created short, illustrated stories for the Visual Latin Reading Library, an OER for Novice-high/Intermediate-low Latin students
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    Andrew De Sousa
    Created interactive content in French as part of the DIKSHA Project of SCERT GOA, India
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    Angineh Djavadghazaryans
    Affiliation: Oakland University
    Member of the editorial board and assisting author of one upper level unit for Grenzenlos Deutsch, an OER beginning German curriculum.
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    Maureen Gallagher
    Affiliation: Australian National University
    Part of the authoring and editorial teams for Grenzenlos Deutsch, an OER beginning German curriculum.
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    Liudmila Klimanova
    Affiliation: University of Arizona
    Founded the LLC Commons Portal, a growing repository of online lessons and interactive activities for online and hybrid Russian classes.
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    Shannon Spasova
    Affiliation: Michigan State University
    I have created and worked on several OER projects aimed for Russian, including the LLC Commons and Real Life in Russia.
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    Chelsea Timlin
    Affiliation: Brown University
    Collaborated with colleagues to create openly licensed lessons around everyday genres for beginning and intermediate German classes.
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    David Barny
    Affiliation: The University of Texas at Austin
    I create multimodal language units for teachers/learners of L2 French, showing the interrelatedness of language & culture(s) through realia.
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    David Eifert
    I've created several OERs for Spanish classes using authentic resources such as commercials, infographics, and websites.
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    Patrick Ploschnitzki
    Co-created an openly licensed German language and culture activity and shared it on FLLITE
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    Julie Weise
    Affiliation: University of Oregon
    Worked with Claudia Holguin Mendoza to develop bilingual History lesson, “El Corrido.”
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    Abby Cain
    Affiliation: Boise State University
    Working in the World Languages Resource Center at Boise State University, I have created and edited nearly 100 different Spanish activities.
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    Daum Jung
    Affiliation: Boise State University
    I create conversation lab activities for Korean 201 and 202 students. The lab activities are openly licensed and shared with other teachers.
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    Margherita Berti
    Affiliation: University of Arizona
    Developed and shared 360-degree virtual reality videos to be used in Italian language courses to promote cultural learning.
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    Hannah Steiner
    Affiliation: Boise State University
    I work to create unique copyright free speaking activities for Mandarin Chinese at the Novice to Intermediate level.
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    Sarra Foerster
    Affiliation: Boise State University
    To provide unique, copyright-free content for short instruction.
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    Delene White
    Affiliation: Keene State University
    I created openly licensed worksheets, a test, a quiz, and self-assessments for students. I shared these with students and colleagues.
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    Delaney Lyon
    Affiliation: Boise State University
    As an OER creator, I create activities that other American Sign Language teachers can use in their classrooms.
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    Gabby Bates
    Affiliation: Boise State University
    As an OER creator, I have translated the activities from Spanish to English so that teachers across the country can use them.
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    Derek Cross
    Affiliation: Boise State University
    Created a dozen openly licensed Chinese speaking activities and shared through Boise State.
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    Megan McAllister
    Affiliation: Boise State University
    Contributing novice level ASL conversation activities to BSU's group. I've created four so far, and have twenty-six left.
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    Ana Somers
    I assisted Vivian Flanzer in the creation of the site ClicaBrasil
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    Gabriela Zapata
    Affiliation: Texas A&M University
    I have been developing Spanish OER materials grounded in the multiliteracies pedagogy Learning by Design since 2016.
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    John Benjamin
    Affiliation: University of Texas at Austin
    Co-created, taught an OER lesson around the music video advertisement text "Is mir egal" in a first semester German language class.
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    Alexander Lorenz
    Affiliation: University of Texas at Austin
    Used a lesson from the FLLITE project to teach first semester German students about the ways one can use public transportation in Germany.
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    Katrin Fuchs
    Affiliation: Valparaiso University
    During a pre-semester teaching orientation, we developed a lesson plan using the FLLITE model to explore a music video advertisement.
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    Natasha César Suárez
    Affiliation: University of Missouri Saint Louis
    I mostly create my own lessons, which are aimed to bring relevant topics to the language classes.
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    Hsiaomei Tsai
    Affiliation: Cedar Ridge Elementary
    Taught my science lesson, “How does a caterpillar become a butterfly?” to 1st graders in the dual immersion program.
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    Andrea Petri
    Affiliation: MiraCosta Community College
    I used a Sabbatical Leave to develop simple readings for Italian 101 and 102 students.
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    Devon Donohue-Bergeler
    Affiliation: University of Texas at Austin
    Co-created and implemented an openly licensed lesson plan in a first-semester collegiate German course
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    Maybel Mesa Morales
    Affiliation: Texas A&M University
    Implemented the digital, OER, social-reading platform eComma to introduce fourth-semester (Spanish 202) students to poetry
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    Kelly Houck
    Affiliation: University of Texas at Austin
    Created an OER for Persian instructors to teach Ahmad Shamlu’s poem “In this Blind Alley,”
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    OER Master Teacher Badge

    An OER Master Teacher is an advanced user of OER who either adopts a large, integrated OER as the curriculum or combines several OER into a coherent curriculum. In this case, the OER are more important to the curriculum than the adopted commercial materials.

    Catherine Clark
    Affiliation: Averett University
    This is my second year adopting Français interactif for my first and second semester French classes. This year I have added the Lingco Lab.
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    Christopher Stevens
    Affiliation: El Camino College
    I use grenzenlos-deutsch.com with some materials from Deutsche Welle and U of Texas' Grimm Grammar and some of my own materials on Canvas.
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    Sumor Sheppard
    Affiliation: Prairie View A & M University
    Implemented program-wide OER use and teach with OER only in the class
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    Melinda Cro
    Affiliation: Kansas State University
    I created an alternative textbook for the fourth-semester French language course at our institution using openly licensed resources.
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    Valerie Morgan
    Affiliation: California State University, San Bernardino
    In my French 101, 102 and 103 classes, I decided to use Français Interactif combined with a variety of free online tools.
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    Adriana Lima
    Affiliation: University of Lethbridge
    I have collaborated with the creation of an OER website alongside the manager of the English Language Institute, Jenny Bourne.
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    Brian Donovan
    Affiliation: Cincinnati State Technical and Community College
    I adopted the OER website-based program for French Français Interactif, and I use it as my "textbook."
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    Dawn Michael
    Affiliation: REYNOLDSBURG CITY SCHOOLS
    I have adopted Français Interactif as the foundation for the curriculum of my French 1 and 2 courses.
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    Eduardo Viana da Silva
    Affiliation: University of Washington
    Develops quizzes, comprehension activities, and more using COERLL's Brazilpod materials.
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    OER Teacher Badge

    An OER Teacher is someone who uses OER primarily to supplement the adopted textbook that defines the curriculum and dictates the classroom activities. In this case, OER are used to update, amplify or improve some elements of commercially-produced materials found to be lacking.

    Renae Mitchell
    I use Francais interactif for my courses
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    Maria Mercedes Fages Agudo
    Affiliation: University of Southern California
    As a language instructor and Community Outreach Director to • preparing supplementary Spanish activities for Spanish teachers.
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    Stephanie Schottel
    Affiliation: Barton Community College
    I use content, videos, audio files, and assignment ideas from "Deutsch im Blick," an OER created by students and faculty at UT-Austin.
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    Mercedes Tubino-Blanco
    Affiliation: Western Michigan University
    With the help of graduate students, I have developed a two-semester Open Source textbook to teach Spanish Intermediate.
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    Valerie Morgan
    Affiliation: California State University, San Bernardino
    I use the videos in Francais Interactif for homework and tests, I use FI in class which I have embedded in Google forms.
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    Mirabelle Tinio
    Affiliation: Langara College
    I use an OER textbook, Le français interactif, for my French conversation course.
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    Daniela C. Meireles
    Affiliation: The University of Texas at Austin
    I use the podcasts Tá Falado, Conversa Brasileira and Língua da Gente for pronunciation and class discussion.
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    Adrián Rodríguez Riccelli
    Affiliation: University of Texas at Austin
    I use videos from the SpinTX archive, Spanish Proficiency Excercises via COERLL, 'Tá Falado', and Brazilpod
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    Margaret Eomurian
    Affiliation: Houston Community College
    Worked with an instructional designer to create a fully online OER course for heritage learners of Spanish. Course to be completed soon.
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    Evan Bibbee
    Affiliation: Minnesota State University, Mankato
    I adopted Français interactif from @COERLL as the primary text in our 100-level courses & have been using it successfully for 5 years now.
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    Melissa Panter
    I use the Francais Interactif program as the basis for activities, vocabulary and grammar.
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    Shannon Becker
    Affiliation: Northern Illinois University
    With the French Department at Northern Illinois University, adopted Français Interactif as the main textbook for the first three semesters of instruction.
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    Frangina Spandau
    Affiliation: SBCC
    Uses openly accessible online materials with German students at Santa Barbara City College.
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    OER Learner Badge

    An OER Learner is anybody who writes an evaluation or a review of an OER they are using for their own learning. Evidence can include a review in a blog, LMS discussions, Google docs, a repository, or some other published location.