TY - CHAP U1 - Konferenzveröffentlichung A1 - Pirkkalainen, Henri A1 - Jokinen, Jussi P. P. A1 - Pawlowski, Jan M. A1 - Richter, Thomas T1 - Overcoming Cultural Distance in Social OER Environments T2 - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education, CSEDU 2014, Barcelona, Spain N2 - Open educational resources (OERs) provide opportunities as enablers of societal development, but they also create new challenges. From the perspective of content providers and educational institutions, particularly, cultural and context-related challenges emerge. Even though barriers regarding large-scale adoption of OERs are widely discussed, empirical evidence for determining challenges in relation to particular contexts is still rare. Such context-specific barriers generally can jeopardize the acceptance of OERs and, in particular, social OER environments. We conducted a large-scale (N = 855) cross-European investigation in the school context to determine how teachers and learners perceive cultural distance as a barrier against the use of social OER environments. The findings indicate how nationality and age of the respondents are strong predictors of cultural distance barrier. The study concludes with identification of context-sensitive interventions for overcoming the related bar riers. These consequences are vital for OER initiatives and educational institutions for aligning their efforts on OER. KW - Barriers KW - Cultural Distance KW - TEL KW - OER KW - Culture KW - Social Software Y1 - 2014 SN - 978-989-758-020-8 SB - 978-989-758-020-8 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5220/0004719300150024 DO - https://doi.org/10.5220/0004719300150024 SP - 15 EP - 24 ER -