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Keywords: Open educational resources (OER), OpenCourseWare (OCW); communities of practice (CoP); global education; Opensource Opencourseware Prototype System (OOPS); opensource; volunteer translators; reification; mutual engagement; joint enterprise; shared repertoire; MIT; global translation; asynchronous discussion threads; Chinese; China; Taiwan Introduction During the past decade, online collaborative technologies combined with a shift in educational practices toward sharing educational contents, have created global educational opportunities never witnessed before in the history of human civilization. Trustworthiness was established mainly through the following measures: 1) data triangulation that included data sources such as interviews, online postings, and newsletters from project website, 2) peer debriefing that included discussions of interpretations and conclusions between two authors and with other researchers, and 3) member checking that included sharing documents with the participants.