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You’ve prompted me to think about audience and purpose for Open Learning ’17–which is a most important question. I have my own hopes, and I think they converge with yours. I hope the project connects and empowers educators, understood inclusively, across traditional barriers and boundaries, for the benefit of educators themselves and consequently, ultimately, their students. Then there is a corollary question: can educators find common or shared language about the quality of the education they aim to offer? These questions are so large that it’s hard to grasp them. They do invite reflection on access, privilege, and social justice, just as you suggest.