Stian HÃ¥klev has posted his thesis on open educational resources (OERs) in China. The purpose of the thesis is to look at "China Quality OpenCourseWare", and thus "to look at this project, how had MIT inspired the Chinese, how had the Chinese changed the North-American idea to better fit their own context, and what could this tell us about the large-scale changes that Chinese higher education was undergoing at the moment?" It's interesting to note some of his reasons for not depending on the university repository to provide access to his thesis: "my thesis will not appear until after my convocation (in a few months), and will be limited to one officially formatted PDF (I hate reading double-spaced PDFs on my screen, and they don't play nice with Stanza). I get no statistics from who downloads it, nor any opportunity to interact with the readers." These reasons can be added to my own set of reasons I write this morning explaining why I prefer to put my resources on my own web site, and not an institutional repository.
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