OER’s, DL’s, Reuse and Culture
its about being a phd student researching digital resoures in a multicultural world.Archive for February, 2007
2 different types of localization.
i’m talking to a friend right now on g-chat. we’re both interested in reusabililty or, localization. only he’s thinking about it in – how do users change the context within which the object is used, and me – i’m interested in how users change the object.
so is it 2 processes? is it two lines of research that take place? the context versus the object?
hmm. just a thought i’m having in this moment.
I'm Brooke, a second year PhD student at Utah State University in Instructional Technology. My interests include digital resources, reuse and localization. Specifically I'm interested in the interplay between culture and reuse of oer's (open educational resources). How can we reuse instructional materials so that they are culturally relevant to users. What is culture? How do we define it in an educational setting? Is making something more culturally relevant more motivating and will that make it more instructionally effective? How can we quantify culture so that we can create processes to more easily adapt instructional resources for the complexities and depth of culture? It's a lifetime of work. 