Content Flow - Content that Travels, besides Translation

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Content Flow - Content that Travels, besides Translation
Extending the definition of Localization to go beyond language translation needs takes into account other motivations driving content flow. Other motivations and criteria for Localization of content include:
 * Cross-disciplinary teaching and learning goals - Adapting content across subject areas and beyond the original intention drives innovative teaching strategies and facilitation of student contributions; informal social settings and tools for passionate amateurs are now setting expectations for learning and remixing.
 * Curriculum standards - Teachers must still align resources and lessons with standards and need to easily understand what is compatible with their curriculum; crosswalk is needed across standards statements so that content can be useful across levels, regions, states, etc.
 * Cultural appropriateness and significance of local input - OER localization relies on do-it-yourself and do-it-with-others processes to support preserving local knowledge, training local expertise, volunteerism, and other community structures not usually included in traditional curriculum consumption.

Examples:
 * OER case studies - ISKME is studying common threads across OER projects so that others can organize and evaluate their own OER creation, for example, building on the collaborative peer production experiences of Free High School Science Texts for open content appropriate for South Africa schools.

Challenges:
 * Crosswalking US state standards, as well as creating international compatibilities, and making that usable for teachers

Enablers:
 * K-12 Curriculum standards mapping across EU countries in LRE