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This paper is from a few weeks ago, but it got lost in the shuffle of recent travel, and yet is an important contribution to the discussion around the Open Education conference, so I'm adding it here. Martin Weller references a paper he and some colleagues wrote last year identifying different flavours of the open education movement (or coalition, or whatever) and observes here that the Open Education morphed "from a conference that was built around the possibilities of what openness could mean in education, to one largely focused on the open textbook as artefact." Maybe that's true; I don't know. But I would agree with his sentiment that "there's a big, wide, open world out there folks, go explore."

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