Cultural affordances, learning objects, and the localization/globalization dilemma
| Published | April 2011 |
| Conference | 1st international symposium on Open Educational Resources: Issues for localization and globalization |
| Keywords | language · multi-cultural · perceptual learning |
| Language | en |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Rights | by/3.0 |
| URL | http://educacaoaberta.org/rea/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/west.pdf |
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