%0	Journal Article
%A	Traxler, John
%C	Asia
%D	2018
%G	English
%J	Asian Journal of Distance Education
%K	Asia
%K	OER
%K	open
%K	pedagogy
%K	language
%K	translation
%K	culture
%P	7-19
%T	Using OER in Asia: Factors, Reforms and Possibilities
%U	http://www.asianjde.org/ojs/index.php/AsianJDE/article/view/265
%V	13
%X	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.
%8	01/2018
%@	1347-9008
%*	yes
%>	https://www.oerknowledgecloud.org/archive/265-Article Text-477-1-10-20190730.pdf