2023-09-21, 12:30–12:35 (Europe/Bucharest), Room 1
This lightning talk will share how the Taiwanese know LibreOffice under the government's promotion and a study of undergraduate students using experiences based on the context. This study found that cultural issues hindered the promotion of LibreOffice in Taiwan and proposed suggestions.
This lightning talk will share qualitative research about the Taiwanese undergraduate students using experience of LibreOffice. This study was conducted in a general course in a Taiwanese university with 67 students, 38 willing to participate in this study, in 2019. The researcher introduced LibreOffice and required the students to submit their assignments in the Open Document Format. After the analysis, the researcher found that Confucian ethics and its value systems decreased student participants’ curiosity and interest in exploring the ethos of LibreOffice. The study results suggest that Taiwanese advocators of LibreOffice should consider the cultural understandings of local value systems to transmit the real benefits of innovation and social justice without replicating economic domination and cultural hegemony.
Ming-Kuo received his Ed.D. from the University of San Francisco and is affiliated with the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. Ming-Kuo is interested in multicultural education and the digital divide. He continues researching how LibreOffice and the Free Software Movement will inspire Taiwan and its multicultural application.