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OER19: Recentering Open: Critical and global perspectives clearly resonates with the larger community at this point in time when the open education movement is more firmly established and can be said to becoming mainstream. While this is a sign of success, it is also a critical moment, where agendas can be appropriated and policies turn out to have unintended consequences.

OER18: Open to All turns the focus on one of the often-cited benefits of ‘open’ – the promise of inclusivity. How do the resources, methods and projects that make up Open Education support making education available to all? As a movement over 15 years old, has Open Education made an impact – on learners, on society and on education? What can we do to to support learning in the open – and how can we use open to support learning?