Cultural Affordances and the Globalization/Localization Dilemma
| Main Authors: | Teemant, Boyd, Taylor, Matthew J., West, Richard P. |
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| Format: | Proceeding |
| Bahasa: | eng |
| Terbitan: |
, 2011
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/3560012 |
Daftar Isi:
- Continued globalization and the need to localize materials for diverse audiences are becoming more and more necessary in today’s shrinking world. Increasing amounts of learning objects and materials are becoming digital making them more and more accessible within open resources. Providing and using open educational resources allows educators to edit, adapt, and change digital learning objects as needed. Additionally, these resources allow for more flexibility, distribution, and utility. As the global availability of these educational resources increases, the need to consider how to provide cultural affordances increases as well. Several dimensions of affordances will be explored such as language, familiarity or experience, education, cultural, and sub-cultural memberships. Some instances require altering learning objects to the end user and some instances require preparing users to learn more about the global context. A heuristic model is presented here and will show the categories of affordances that should be included when determining the best manners to adapt educational resources to local and global contexts within these varying dimensions.