i think that the case could be made that within context metadata that there should be a subset for cultural context.. i think that it would be difficult to create a standard of what to call the cultural context, but i do think that it would be possible to make a case for data about how culturally laden material is. material that is more culturally laden is going have a greater need to have that changed if it is being taken to a different culture. yes. and i think it would be necessary to have that piece in there. but one problem that comes with that is getting the dominant culture to realize that yes, they are a distinct culture, even if they are the dominating one.
so, then, the next obvious question that comes up, for me at least, is what is the determinant of the amount of cultural context? there are other questions too, that have to do with adaptability, but i’ll think about that later.
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. 