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标题：Exploring the institutional OER policy landscape in South Africa: dominant discourses and assumptions
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作者：Patricia Rudo Chikuni ; Glenda Cox ; Laura Czerniewicz 等
期刊名称：International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology
电子版ISSN：1814-0556
出版年度：2019
卷号：15
期号：4
页码：165-179
出版社：University of the West Indies
摘要：A number of universities in South Africa are sharing teaching materials online making them freelyavailable as Open Educational Resources (OER). The open sharing of teaching materials has beencoupled with a number of institutional policy initiatives. This paper seeks to explore the institutionalpolicy landscape of OER in South Africa in order to first understand the discourses andassumptions that underpin OER policies and second, to critique and problematize the majordiscourses and assumptions that underpin OER policies. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is usedas a tool for identifying dominant discourses in OER. Findings show that OER policies in publicuniversities in South Africa are underpinned by three dominant discourses on access, collaborationand transformation. The extent to which OER can democratise access to education and redresssocio-historic inequalities in the provision of educational resources is not guaranteed. Somescholars argue that OER could in some contexts perpetuate inequalities if the same barriers ofaccessing education in a traditional classroom have not been dealt with. OER policies are writtenas optimistic accounts on how to publish OER but they do not do a good job in encouraging reuse.
关键词：OER policy; open content; discourse; Open Educational Resources; critical discourse;analysis.