Developing a bilingual OER portal: the case of OpenLearn Cymru [741] Home : OER15

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Wed, Apr 15 2015, 11:30am – 1:00pm

Authors: Simon Horrocks, Esther Snelson, and Tracey Marenghi

Room: Weston Anthony Hopkins Centre

Theme: Open Education across Languages and Cultures

Type: Short Paper

Description

OpenLearn Cymru has been developed to provide access to Open Education Resources that have particular relevance to Wales. The portal has strong links to OpenLearn, but provides content in both Welsh and English. OpenLearn Cymru now offers a platform for The Open University and partners from higher education and others sectors to create and deploy OER that meet the specific linguistic and educational needs of learners in Wales and/or those interested about Wales.

This presentation will provide an overview of:

the context and rationale for developing a bilingual OER portal for Wales
the practicalities of planning and building OpenLearn Cymru as a bilingual site
the opportunities for further development of OpenLearn Cymru

In this talk, members of the planning and production team for OpenLearn Cymru will reflect on the particular considerations and challenges that came with developing a bilingual site for OER. These included:

technical solutions needed to create the portal within the Moodle-based OpenLearn Works
working with team members including academics and technical developers, many of whom with limited or no Welsh language skills
making editorial decisions about what content to include to meet the needs of various learner groups
deciding when and how to translate existing content from English into Welsh or when to develop bespoke content in Welsh

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