Proceedings: 1st International Symposium on OER

We are pleased to announce the proceedings of the 1^st International  Symposium on Open Educational Resources: Isssues for Globalization and Localization held at Utah State University in 2011. The initiative stems from a long-time working group on Technology and Education initiated through bi-national FIPSE-CAPES grant programs.

The researchers met at Utah State University during the month of April, 2011 not only to present these works, but also to openly debate these issues. Inspite of the small number of invited researchers, we benefited from a great variety of perspectives and lively debate. You find here a collection of peer-reviewed articles which we hope will contribute to this debate.

Plans for a second symposium are underway and we hope a large number of researchers from around the world will join us in thinking about these concerns.

The proceedings are available to download as a complete PDF (approximately 5mb) and its contents are licensed with a CC-BY license.

Download the complete proceedings here (PDF, 5mb).

—Contents—

Editorial
Tel Amiel (University of Campinas, Brazil)
Richard West (Utah State University, USA)

The Localization of Open Educational Resources: The role of culture, user and activity
Tel Amiel (University of Campinas, Brazil)

Cultural Affordances and the Globalization/Localization Dilemma
Boyd Teemant, Matthew J. Taylor, Richard West (Utah State University, United States)

Towards Intelligent Cultural Adaptation of Educational Technology: An exploratory study
Genaro Rebolledo-Mendez (University of Veracruz, Mexico)
Michael Orey (University of Georgia, United States)
Francisco J. Alvarez-Rodríguez (Autonomous University of Aguascalientes, Mexico)
Guadalupe Martinez-Peñaloza  (University of Veracruz, Mexico)

Guided Customization For Learning Objects
Maria de Fátima Costa de Souza (Federal University of Ceara, Brazil)
José Aires de Castro Filho
Rossana Maria de Castro Andrade

Comparing availability and characteristics of Learning Objects on one “worldwide” and two African Open Educational Resource websites using the Learning Object Review Instrument (LORI) v. 1.5
Krista Gurko (Utah State University, United States)

Affordable mobile learning: Conventional Cell phones as teaching tools for English language learning
Gisela Martiz (Utah State University, United States)

Acceso a Repositorios de Objetos de Aprendizaje Multiculturales en Comunidades Latinoamericanas
Jaime Muñoz Arteaga, Fco. Álvarez Rodríguez, Pedro Cardona Salas (Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Mexico)
René Santaolaya Salgado (CENIDET, Mexico)
Genaro Rebolledo, Alma Rosa García Gaona (Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico)