%0 Journal Article
%T Evidence of Cross-boundary Use and Reuse of Digital Educational Resources
%A Riina Vuorikari
%A Rob Koper
%J International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET)
%D 2009
%I Universit?t Kassel
%R 10.3991/ijet.v4i4.1028
%X In this study an investigation using log-files of teachers¡¯ Collections of educational resources in two different platforms was conducted. The goal was to find empirical evidence from the field that teachers use and reuse learning resources that are in a language other than their mother tongue and originate from different countries than they do, for this, the term cross-boundary use of learning resources is used. In both contexts behavioural evidence was found that cross-boundary use and reuse takes place, and it was shown that it correlates with the general use and reuse trends. Moreover, it was found that cross-boundary reuse, when compared to 20% of general reuse, was notably less (37% to 55% of it). The motivation to study cross-boundary use and reuse is to set a baseline for future studies, and to understand how it can be supported and enhanced in the future.
%K behavioral
%K evidence
%K cross-boundary
%K learning
%K resources
%K multilinguality
%K reuse
%U http://online-journals.org/i-jet/article/view/1028