Khan Academy Videos in Chinese: A Case Study in OER Revision

Over the past decade, great progress has been made in improving the quality and availability of Open Educational Resources (OER). OER proponents often discuss the ability for users to revise and remix OER to make them more suitable for local contexts; however, much OER goes unmodified. This note fro...

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Autores principales: Allen Rao, John Hilton III, Sarah Harper
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Publicado: Athabasca University Press 2017
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:76e8286915e44efb8e6d3bcb0350b6792021-12-02T18:03:00ZKhan Academy Videos in Chinese: A Case Study in OER Revision10.19173/irrodl.v18i5.30861492-3831https://doaj.org/article/76e8286915e44efb8e6d3bcb0350b6792017-08-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/3086https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831Over the past decade, great progress has been made in improving the quality and availability of Open Educational Resources (OER). OER proponents often discuss the ability for users to revise and remix OER to make them more suitable for local contexts; however, much OER goes unmodified. This note from the field examines the efforts of NetEase Online Open Courses, a Chinese organization, to take more than two thousand Khan Academy videos and translate them into Chinese. We provide background on this initiative and also analyze site metrics to determine what type of use these derivative OER have received. Allen RaoJohn Hilton IIISarah HarperAthabasca University Pressarticleopen educational resourcesopen accessremix5RsChinaKhan AcademySpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 18, Iss 5 (2017)
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open access
remix
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China
Khan Academy
Special aspects of education
LC8-6691
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open access
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5Rs
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Khan Academy
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Allen Rao
John Hilton III
Sarah Harper
Khan Academy Videos in Chinese: A Case Study in OER Revision
description Over the past decade, great progress has been made in improving the quality and availability of Open Educational Resources (OER). OER proponents often discuss the ability for users to revise and remix OER to make them more suitable for local contexts; however, much OER goes unmodified. This note from the field examines the efforts of NetEase Online Open Courses, a Chinese organization, to take more than two thousand Khan Academy videos and translate them into Chinese. We provide background on this initiative and also analyze site metrics to determine what type of use these derivative OER have received.
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