About COERLL
We are a team of educators and designers working to bring the benefits of OER and Open Education to language teaching and learning at the University of Texas at Austin.
Mission
COERLL’s mission is to produce and disseminate Open Educational Resources (OER) for the students at the University of Texas at Austin. However, thanks to the adoption of open licenses, we are able to share our materials (e.g., online language courses, reference grammars, assessment tools, corpora, etc.) with the general public. The term OER refers to any educational material offered freely for anyone to use, typically involving some permission to re-mix, improve, and redistribute. Thus, while COERLL exists to serve the needs of UT-Austin foreign language students, it also aims to promote a culture of sharing that lies at the heart of the Open Education movement. At COERLL, we are happy to share our materials with language learners and teachers around the world. We only ask that you respect our OERs’ terms of use as indicated by their open licenses.
Grants and Projects
The Center for Open Educational Resources & Language Learning (COERLL) was inaugurated in 2010 as part of the U.S. Department of Education’s Title VI program (National Foreign Language Resource Centers). The overall mission of these federally-funded centers is to improve the teaching and learning of foreign languages by producing resources (materials and best practices) that can be profitably employed in a variety of settings. Today, COERLL is funded by the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin.
Learn more about our completed projects:
Access our archives:
- Events Archive (conferences, workshops, webinars, and other COERLL-sponsored events)
- Publications Archive (downloadable textbooks, brochures, and other print materials created by COERLL)
COERLL Team
Carl Blyth, Director
Carl Blyth is the Director of COERLL and Associate Professor of French Linguistics in the Department of French and Italian. He has held several administrative positions prior to COERLL: Coordinator of Lower Division French (1993-2002), Acting Director of Technology, Literacy and Culture (2001-2002), and Director/Asst Director of the UT Summer Program in Lyon, France. He has worked with colleagues on an online reference grammar of French, and a multimedia-based first year French program.
Faculty page link: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/frenchitalian/faculty/blythcs
Christian Hilchey, Associate Director
Christian Hilchey is an Associate Director at COERLL and a lecturer in the Department of Slavic and Eurasian studies, teaching primarily courses related to Czech language and culture. He received his PhD in Slavic Languages and Linguistics from the University of Chicago in Spring 2014 and began his position at the University of Texas in the Fall of 2014. His interests include language teaching pedagogy and the development of Open Educational Resources. He is the author of the openly licensed textbook Reality Czech.
Faculty page link: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/slavic/faculty/ch43223
Jeannette Okur, Associate Director
Dr. Jeannette Okur is an Associate Director at COERLL and has coordinated the Turkish Studies program at the University of Texas at Austin since 2010. Drawing upon extensive experience teaching not only Turkish, but also German and ESL, she continues to develop new curricular materials for Turkish language instruction at the Novice, Intermediate and Advanced proficiency levels. Her openly licensed, media-rich Turkish textbook, titled Her Şey Bir Merhaba ile Başlar! (Everything Begins with a Hello!) was published by COERLL in February 2021.
Faculty page link: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/mes/faculty/jo8346
Rachael Gilg, Web Designer
Rachael Gilg develops and maintains the projects in COERLL’s portfolio of online materials for language learning. Rachael studied English and Anthropology at Rice University and completed a M.S. in Information Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. She began building websites professionally in 2005, and has developed numerous web-based projects in collaboration with educators, researchers, archivists, historians, and others.
Much of the content of COERLL’s website was developed under grants P229A100014, P229A140005, and P229A180003 from the U.S. Department of Education. However, this content does not necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education.