Analysis of learning objects in the ProfeDeEle and DELE Ahora repositories for the teaching/learning of Spanish as a foreign language
Rev. EntreLinguas, Araraquara, v. 10, n. esp. 1, e024008, 2024. e-ISSN: 2447-3529
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29051/el.v10iesp.1.19042 12
OERs is that educational materials under open licenses can contribute greatly to improving
the quality and effectiveness of education" (p. 10). We notice that the use of these materials
can be favorable to foreign language teaching, as, by using them, the educator can adapt the
content based on the profile of their target audience, the characteristics of the educational
environment, and the lessons.
Regarding the function of OERs, we consider them to be always specific since they
depend on the curriculum requirements and can relate to the reality of the school, city, or
classroom. When a teacher encounters OERs, according to Costa (2014, p. 34), they move
"[...] from being a receiver of selected, edited, and packaged contents and materials for
consumption to becoming an active agent in the process of research, selection, editing, and
creation of their material." Furthermore, by making it openly available online, they can
receive assistance from other teachers, which may improve the material, its content, or its
presentation form.
In relation to the principles of OERs, we highlight that they can be reused, adapted,
and freely distributed, potentially promoting "[...] the creation of derivative versions of the
initial ideas based on their expansion, reformatting, and recombination with other sources"
(Mallmann; Nobre, 2015, p. 629, our translation). Moreover, it is pertinent to present,
according to the authors, the five rights related to OERs to be defined as open content, which
are:
- Retain - the right to make and keep one's own copies of the content (for
example, to download, duplicate, store, and manage);
- Reuse - the right to use the content in various ways (for example, in a
classroom, in a study group, on a website, in a video);
- Revise - the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself (for
example, to translate the content into another language);
- Remix - the right to combine the original or revised content with other
open content to create something new (for example, to incorporate the
content into personalized creations);
- Redistribute - the right to share copies of the original content, its revisions,
or its remixes with others (for example, to give a copy of the content to a
friend) (Mallmann; Nobre, 2015, p. 629, our translation).
From this, we note that OERs allow teachers to create, combine, or archive
educational content; utilize and reuse these tools in various learning contexts; make necessary
adaptations or those best suited to the profile of the class, and share materials with third