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Cultural considerations

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Saved by Doug Belshaw
on April 14, 2010 at 3:29:57 pm
 

Lou, this needs extra material - perhaps culled from the Good Intentions report? - Doug

 

Cultural issues have been identified as significant in relation to if and how people share learning and teaching resources, for example the following touch on these issues:

 

 

The JISC/HE Academy Pilot programme: OER release aimed to provide funding and support to enable individuals, subject communities and institutions to openly release existing materials. The lessons learned, approaches adopted and barriers overcome were expected to inform the wider community and offer models and guidance to support wider release in the UK. It was anticipated that cultural issues would continue to be significant for the pilot programme:

 

The questions that the programme hoped to address include:

  • What are the current norms for sharing educational content in different communities? What global or local trends are in evidence?
  • What motivates and supports/enables individuals to make their content open? What are effective mechanisms of reward and recognition?
  • What are the institutional, legal, cultural barriers to open content?
  • Who benefits from release of content? How do they perceive and understand those benefits?
  • How does the opening of learning resources affect the roles of individuals?
  • Within what kinds of communitites does open sharing take place readily and effectively?
  • What are these communities actually sharing? What can we learn from them?

 

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