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Question

What considerations, constraints, and enablers exist in sharing, using and reusing my project's OER content in local teaching and learning situations?

Goal of Activity

To produce modified content that is adapted and suitable to a new purpose, situation or locale; to analyze and reflect upon the process and gain insights into the challenges for practitioners, content developers, and framework/tool providers.

Group Task

• Divide into groups of at least three persons each.
• Choose one piece of content that your project has created or that has been created by another OER project.
• Imagine a teaching/learning scenario for localization and describe your situation/needs. Who is the teacher/instructor? What is his/her teaching style? What are the goals for the lesson? Who are the students? What tools, technology, and equipment do they have access to? What level of skills do they have in relation to the content? Where are they located geographically? What other special circumstances exist?
• Discuss and list ways that you would need to adapt the content to fit the imagined situation/needs.
• Make a list of other assets/resources you would want to have for teaching a class using your new content.
• Pass your "finished content" (i.e., the lists) to the next group. Each group uses their newly localized content to repeat the localization activity again; repeat again if time allows.
• Evaluate this process of localizing content in relation to the motivations for localization (see list below) and discuss and generate new questions. Did new reasons/motivations emerge through the process of localization? New challenges? What affordances are most needed to enable localization--such as tools, conditions, policies, types of engagement, skills, awareness, incentives?

Potential motivations for localization

• Grade level
• Subject / discipline / multi-discipline
• Curriculum / skill standards – national, state, regional, local standards are all relevant
• Geographic location
• Tools and technology available
• Budget / time available
• Expertise / non-experts, training involved
• Creative input / quality improvement
• Local, time-sensitive issues, current events
• Language
• Content qualities such as granularity, format, software or hardware requirements

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