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PEGGY LYNN MACISAAC: Hi there.

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This video is about finding
non-English open educational resources.

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It has one simple point.

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OER is an English acronym.

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To find non-English OER, one needs
to be searching non-English phrases.

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So I'm going to take you
to a page that is helping

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with that, OER found in translation.

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So this page has a simple
presentation, which

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is every entry will have
three components listed

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under various languages.

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The first component will be a phrase
that you can actually copy and use

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in a search engine.

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The double quotation
marks around any phrase,

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for the most part, in a search
engine, allows the phrase

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to be searched as an exact phrase.

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This shortens your results list
and increases the relevancy.

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So it saves you a lot of time.

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The second component
is the abbreviation,

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and the third component is a definition
built off the UNESCO definition.

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There are many definitions for
open educational resources,

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and this page uses
the UNESCO definition.

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So as you can see, this is a
collective work in progress.

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But I will point out a
few differences here.

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So English is OER.

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French is REL.

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Portuguese and Spanish are both REA.

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The Russian is kind of fun.

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I'm going to take you down
to the Vietnamese phrase,

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and I will show you how to use this.

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So the idea is to copy it
with the quotation marks,

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and just paste it into your
favorite search engine.

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So we're going to work with
the first one for two reasons.

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One is in the URL, I can
actually see that it uses edu,

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so that means it is most likely
created by a staff, student,

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or faculty member at a post-secondary
institution somewhere in the world.

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And the second reason that
we're choosing this is-- we're

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going to work with this is because I
love the animation on the right hand

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side.

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I just think it's so
simplistic and lovely.

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So while I don't speak Vietnamese,
I still want to kind of take a look

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and see whether or not this
really is the kind of website I

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was trying to find.

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This icon on the left hand
side is definitely encouraging.

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But what I notice is,
I notice that there is

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a translation in English of this page.

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So I'm going to click on
the English translation,

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and I do indeed find that
it's the type of resource

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that I was trying to get to.

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So that's how you use this page.

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As I said, it is a work in progress.

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I am hoping that by the time you
access this page yourself, that there

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will be more entries on this page.

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But there are two ways-- if you want
to add a translation to this page,

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there are two ways to do it.

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One is to leave a comment at the bottom,
in which case, I would be the one

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taking those comments
and actually posting it

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into the appropriate place on the page.

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Or the second thing is that it is a wiki
that you're able to update yourself.

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The only condition with it is, it's on
the Athabasca University landing, which

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means you would need to create an
account with the Athabasca University

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landing, which is free to
do, and it's so simple to do.

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You would create an
account with them first,

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and then anyone with an AU landing
account can actually update this wiki.

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I am Peggy Lynn MacIsaac,
and thank you for watching.

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