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

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Mining Open access Content for data driven learning

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

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

New ethos phd abstracts collections for eap

EThOS PhD Abstracts Collections

http://flax.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax?a=fp&sa=collAbout&c=PASS&if=flax

Using Dewey Decimal Classification

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dewey_Decimal_classes#Class_300_.E2.80.93_Social_sciences

Browse by Discipline

Wikification of Specialised Terminology

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

build web-based & mobile Interactivity into your flax collections

FLAX TEAM Apps for Android via GooglePlay

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Split Sentences Developers’ Web Interface

Split SentencesLearners’ Web Interface

Related WordsDevelopers’ Web Interface

Related WordsLearners’ Web Interface

Collocation GuessingDevelopers’ Web Interface

Collocations Guessing Learners’ Web Interface

Collocation DominoesDevelopers’ Web Interface

Collocation DominoesLearners’ Web Interface

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.pdfFLAX 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.nzShaoqun 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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