@article { title = {Using OER in Asia: Factors, Reforms and Possibilities}, author = {Traxler, John}, abstract = {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.}, year = {2018}, month = {01/2018}, language = {English}, journal = {Asian Journal of Distance Education}, volume = {13}, issue = {2}, pages = {7-19}, url = {http://www.asianjde.org/ojs/index.php/AsianJDE/article/view/265}, issn = {1347-9008}, refereed = {yes}, keywords = {Asia, OER, open, pedagogy, language, translation, culture}, attachments = {265-Article Text-477-1-10-20190730.pdf}, }