Typically my answer to this question is "no." But let's hear the case. "It gets all the various strands of open – open access, open education, open source software, open pedagogy, open data – in the same room." Well, true. But that's not always a good thing (it's a lot like getting all the provinces in the same room - yes, we want to do it from time to time, but we still send them back home to govern themselves individually). And as Clint Lalonde says, "We also cannot assume that there is a common understanding of what open means in education… as MOOC's have shown us." (Indeed, even after all these years, we can't stop people from using the erroneous 'Massively' instead of 'Massive'). "Despite opening my talk with some cautious concerns about developing a pan-Canadian unified open strategy, I ultimately agree that the time had come." I would support this under one condition: that I design the strategy. Otherwise, we're probably better off letting different sectors explore different paths.
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