Harmonising OER research across South America, Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia : the case of the ROER4D project - OER15 conference paper

This paper explores key benefits and challenges of conducting research on the use and impacts of open educational resources (OER) across languages and cultures. It highlights successful strategies adopted to address the challenges associated with knowledge building, research capacity building, networking, curation of resources, communication, project management and leadership. Interpretation and understanding of terms across languages is a complex problem. In order to make the entire research process open, challenges in following protocols and processes of documentation occur which require careful consideration, so that all are able to understand. consideration, so that all are able to understand