OOPS, Turning MIT Opencourseware into Chinese: An analysis of a community of practice of global translators

OOPS, Turning MIT Opencourseware into Chinese: An analysis of a community of practice of global translators

An all-volunteer organization called the Opensource Opencourseware Prototype System (OOPS), headquartered in Taiwan, was initially designed to translate open source materials from MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) site into Chinese. Given the recent plethora of open educational resources (OER), such as the O...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mimi Miyoung Lee, Meng-Fen Grace Lin, Curtis J. Bonk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Athabasca University Press 2007-11-01
Series:International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning
Subjects:
Open educational resources (OER)
OpenCourseWare (OCW)
communities of practice (CoP)
global education
Opensource Opencourseware Prototype System (OOPS)
opensource
volunteer translators
reification
mutual engagement
joint enterprise
shared repertoire
MIT
global translation
asynchronous discussion threads
Chinese
China
Taiwan
Online Access:http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/463/980

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