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Using OER In Asia: factors, reforms and possibilities
Traxler, John
Traxler, John
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2018-12-01
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Open Educational Resources (OER) are frequently advocated as an educational panacea, an educational technology that can be transported and transferred, reused and revised, to address the global shortage of high-quality online material. This paper explores that scenario by looking at the factors that might promote or inhibit the transfer and re-use of OER into Asian higher education and particularly focuses on the issue of language and culture. The paper identifies culture, as the underpinning of pedagogy, as a significant and unacknowledged determinant of success and proposes culture, as calibrated by the work of Hofstede and comparable thinkers, as a possible addition to OER metadata.
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Traxler, J. (2018) Using OER In Asia: factors, reforms and possibilities, Asian Journal of Distance Education, 13(2), pp. 7-19.
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1347-9008