is it possible to create metadata around culture? or is culture such an individual thing (according to two different definitions of culture, one by Nuelep, as quoted by Bentley, Tinney, et. al (2005), and another by Serrano and Hou, as referenced by Murray, Smith, and Hill (2001) culture is, essientally, an integral part of a person’s life, a way of interpreting the world), that to create that metadata makes so many assumptions based on a large, not homogeneous group, that the attempt to do so is just a complete waste of time?
OER’s, DL’s, Reuse and Culture
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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. 