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• W28969561 abstract "Globally we are facing a growing demand for education, an issue that is especiallyprevalent in lesser developed nations. A lack of resources for education is one of themain limitations in provision of education. The occurence of Information andCommunication Technology now provide us the means to share digital educationalresources openly. The scarcity formerly found in terms of educational content has nowturned into abundance. These educational resources have been attributed a number ofdifferent roles, ranging from providing input for the development of curricula, toproviding an education in itself and thereby accelerating development and improvingquality of life. The main challenge related to this is: how to make meaningful use of thisresource?In this thesis I aim to provide a normative framework in which it is possible toaccurately evaluate digital educational resources and their use and (possible) impact.The framework for this will be provided by the capability approach and applied to aspecific case study on digital educational resources. The capability approach provides aframework for evaluating quality of life on the basis of the notion of development asspecified in the capability approach. Development in the capability approach is seen asan expansion of freedoms by creating or expanding capabilities and provides analternative to the dominant paradigms in which development is measured by availabilityof resources or utility.Both education and technology are seen as important means for expandingcapabilities, and the capability approach will be expanded in such a way that it can beapplied to evaluations of education and technology. Using the means-ends distinctionfound in the capability approach, together with the conversion process from resources tocapabilities, an analysis of the use of technology will be made and contrasted to thevisions held towards the use of that technology.The case study of this thesis is OpenCourseWare, an initiative by theMasschussets Institute of Technology, in which they are now sharing all the courses thatare taught at their campus in an openly accessible online repository. In order to analysethis case study by means of the capability approach, I will start with a descriptiveanalysis of OpenCourseWare and the stakeholders involved in it. Presenting thecapability approach, and its links to both education and technology will follow this.Finally, the visions that the stakeholders hold towards the use and application ofOpenCourseware will be presented. Based on those three elements, OpenCourseWarewill be analysed by means of the capability approach.Based on the analysis by the capability approach I will draw conclusions on theimpact and value of OpenCourseWare in the context of education for development, andhow this might result in improved quality of life. Following that I will show the meritsof the capability approach as compared to a resource based paradigm, and argue thatOpenCourseWare could have benefitted from taking the capability approach as theframework in which to develop OpenCourseWare.Finally I will make some recommendations towards possible improvements ofOpenCourseWare by including 'Value Sensitive Design' and the notion that pedagogyhas to prevail over technology in the process of education. Both the recommendation forusing the capability approach as a framework in which to evaluate and developOpenCourseWare and the inclusion of additional theories for design and education, areaimed at maximising the impact OpenCourseWare in education for development,thereby truly realising the potential of its contribution to an improvement in quality oflife." @default.
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