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A Comparative Study of National Infrastructures for Digital (Open) Educational Resources in Higher Education
This paper reports on the first stage of an international comparative study for the project “Digital educational
architectures: Open learning resources in distributed learning infrastructures–EduArc”, funded by the German
Federal Ministry of Education and Research. This study reviews the situation of digital educational resources
(or (O)ER) framed within the digital transformation of ten different Higher Education (HE) systems (Australia,
Canada, China, Germany, Japan, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Turkey and the United States). Following
a comparative case study approach, we investigated issues related to the existence of policies, quality
assurance mechanisms and measures for the promotion of change in supporting infrastructure development
for (O)ER at the national level in HE in the different countries. The results of this mainly documentary research
highlight differences and similarities, which are largely due to variations in these countries’ political structure
organisation. The discussion and conclusion point at the importance of understanding each country’s context
and culture, in order to understand the differences between them, as well as the challenges they face