OOPS, Turning MIT Opencourseware into Chinese: An analysis of a community of practice of global translators

dc.creator	Mimi Miyoung Lee
dc.creator	Meng-Fen Grace Lin
dc.creator	Curtis J. Bonk
dc.date	2007-11-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:17:10Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:17:10Z
dc.identifier	1492-3831
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/c3caf899670d42fbab8e09b097c6dc98
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/18901
dc.description	An all-volunteer organization called the Opensource Opencourseware Prototype System (OOPS), headquartered in Taiwan, was initially designed to translate open source materials from MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) site into Chinese. Given the recent plethora of open educational resources (OER), such as the OCW, the growing use of such resources by the world community, and the emergence of online global education communities to localize resources such as the OOPS, a key goal of this research was to understand how the OOPS members negotiate meanings and form a collective identity in this cross-continent online community. To help with our explorations and analyses within the OOPS translation community, several core principles from Etienne Wenger’s concept of Communities of Practice (COP) guided our analyses, including mutual engagement, joint enterprise, shared repertoire, reification, and overall identity of the community. In this paper, we detail how each of these key components was uniquely manifested within the OOPS. Three issues appeared central to the emergence, success, and challenges of the community such as OOPS: 1) strong, stable, and fairly democratic leadership; 2) participation incentives; and 3) online storytelling or opportunities to share one’s translation successes, struggles, and advice within an asynchronous discussion forum. While an extremely high level of enthusiasm among the OOPS members underpinned the success of the OOPS, discussion continues on issues related to quality control, purpose and scope, and forms of legitimate participation. This study, therefore, provides an initial window into the emergence and functioning of an online global education COP in the OER movement. Future research directions related to online global educational communities are discussed.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Athabasca University
dc.relation	http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/463/980
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, Vol 8, Iss 3 (2007)
dc.subject	Open educational resources (OER)
dc.subject	OpenCourseWare (OCW)
dc.subject	communities of practice (CoP)
dc.subject	global education
dc.subject	Opensource Opencourseware Prototype System (OOPS)
dc.subject	opensource
dc.subject	volunteer translators
dc.subject	reification
dc.subject	mutual engagement
dc.subject	joint enterprise
dc.subject	shared repertoire
dc.subject	MIT
dc.subject	global translation
dc.subject	asynchronous discussion threads
dc.subject	Chinese
dc.subject	China
dc.subject	Taiwan
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
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dc.title	OOPS, Turning MIT Opencourseware into Chinese: An analysis of a community of practice of global translators
dc.type	article