Cultural affordances, learning objects, and the localization/globalization dilemma
Published | April 2011 |
Conference | 1st international symposium on Open Educational Resources: Issues for localization and globalization |
Keywords | language · multi-cultural · perceptual learning |
Language | en |
Refereed | Yes |
Rights | by/3.0 |
URL | http://educacaoaberta.org/rea/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/west.pdf |
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