摘要：Open Educational Resources (OER) are frequently advocated as an educational panacea,
an educational technology that can be transported and transferred, reused and revised, to
address the global shortage of high-quality online material. This paper explores that scenario
by looking at the factors that might promote or inhibit the transfer and re-use of OER into
Asian higher education and particularly focuses on the issue of language and culture. The
paper identifies culture, as the underpinning of pedagogy, as a significant and
unacknowledged determinant of success and proposes culture, as calibrated by the work of
Hofstede and comparable thinkers, as a possible addition to OER metadata.
