Presented with Chris Mansfield at the IATEFL Conference in Birmingham, United Kingdom on April 15, 2016 as part of the Interactive Language Learning Fair

1. FLAX Open Access Collections for Academic English:
Featuring the new PhD Abstracts Collections with the
E-Theses Online Service (EThOS)
at the British Library
Alannah Fitzgerald and Chris Mansfield
Image: British Library gate by Man vyi. [Public domain] via Wikimedia Commons..

2. Mining Open access Content for
data driven learning

3. The FLAX Vision
“FLAX (Flexible Language Acquisition) is
both a vision and a tool that you can use for
language learning. The Web contains
innumerable language activities, quizzes,
and games, but they are fixed: the activities
are cast in stone and the material is chosen
by others. Our vision is to put the control
back where it belongs, in the hands of
teachers and learners.” (eBook of FLAX)
http://flax-doc.nzdl.org/BOOK_OF_FLAX/BookofFLAX%20fullsize%20with%20links.pdf

5. The eBook of FLAX
“FLAX enables teachers to build bespoke
libraries very easily. It is built upon powerful
digital library technology, and provides access to
vast linguistic resources containing countless
examples of actual, authentic, usage in
contemporary text. But teachers can also build
collections using their own material, focusing
on language learning in a particular domain
(e.g. business, law) or motivating students by
using text from a particular context (e.g.
country or region, common interests).”
http://flax-doc.nzdl.org/BOOK_OF_FLAX/BookofFLAX%20fullsize%20with%20links.pdf

6. New ethos phd abstracts
collections for eap

7. EThOS PhD Abstracts Collections
http://flax.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax?a=fp&sa=collAbout&c=PASS&if=flax

8. Using Dewey Decimal Classification
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dewey_Decimal_classes#Class_300_.E2.80.93_Social_sciences

9. Browse by Discipline

10. Wikification of Specialised Terminology
http://flax.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax?a=d&c=PASS&d=HASH29c3a6e8f235b56f62a551&dt=simple&p.a=b&p.s=ClassifierBrowse

11. build web-based & mobile Interactivity into
your flax collections

12. FLAX TEAM Apps for Android via GooglePlay
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/
File:Android_robot_skateboarding.svg /
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Google_Play_Store.svg

13. Split Sentences
Developers’ Web Interface

14. Split Sentences
Learners’ Web Interface

16. Related Words
Developers’ Web Interface

17. Related Words
Learners’ Web Interface

20. Collocation Guessing
Developers’ Web Interface

21. Collocations Guessing
Learners’ Web Interface

24. Collocation Dominoes
Developers’ Web Interface

25. Collocation Dominoes
Learners’ Web Interface

30. Thank You
FLAX Language Project & Software Downloads: http://flax.nzdl.org/
The How-to eBook of FLAX:
http://flax-doc.nzdl.org/BOOK_OF_FLAX/BookofFLAX%20fullsize%20with%20links.pdf
FLAX Game-based Apps for Android via Google Play Store (free):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=FLAX%20TEAM&hl=en
Ian Witten (FLAX Project Lead): ihw@cs.waikato.ac.nz
Shaoqun Wu (FLAX Research and Development): shaoqun@waikato.ac.nz
Alannah Fitzgerald (FLAX Open Language Research): a_fitzg@education.concordia.ca
Xiaofeng Alex Yu (FLAX Apps Development): Alex.Yu@wintec.ac.nz
Chris Mansfield (Queen Mary Language Centre): c.mansfield@qmul.ac.uk
OER Research Hub: http://oerresearchhub.org/
TOETOE Technology for Open English Blog: www.alannahfitzgerald.org
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