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标题：Improving Access using ICT and OER in Asia
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作者：Paul KAWACHI ; Ramesh C. SHARMA
期刊名称：Asian Journal of Distance Education
印刷版ISSN：1347-9008
出版年度：2012
卷号：10
期号：1
页码：1
出版社：Asian Society of Open and Distance Education
摘要：Many practitioners are moving towards adopting OER for improving access and quality. This is particularly true in Asia where universities are reformingaiming to be so-called world-class universities. The shortcut to them seems to be importing ready-made courseware from the elite western universities as OER. However, we have yet to see clear research evidence in comparative studies on the improvements brought by using OER. We are also in danger of moving backwards to more teaching-centred practice. We should be wary too about some institutions and individuals simply dumping lessons onto the web and calling them free OER. We need to be very careful in whatOER we adopt and how we adapt and re-use them. Certainly the efforts by the Commonwealth of Learning and UNESCO (2011) and the OPAL Project (2011) are to be supported -towards developing practices and pathways for learning. The key issue is to develop these learning pathways