Thanks for this post Dave.

I think some of what you are describing is more to do with open teaching, but the post itself is a good example of a summary of your open learning. To me, Open Learning is sharing my (subjective) learning experience as it happens, building the feedback I get from others in to that learning process. That is (or would be!) greatly aided by people using open teaching methods, but I think there is room to identify the two as distinct.

I see 1, 2 as being about Open Learning, per se, whereas 3-7 are about open teaching, and 8 is perhaps a philosophical reflection or ideological position – one with which I agree.

I am particularly interested in 3 and its adaptation, or possibly corollary, for what I would see as Open Learning. As an open teaching point, it has its own merit; let the community decide what is to be learned, providing a flexible and pragmatic approach to educational goals. For the individual, though, this fits well with my recent thinking, that *I* need to be deciding what to learn, and as part of that process I need to work out *why* I want to learn it, and what benefits it will bring (or not). The community is made up of lots of individual learners, and they all need to make their own decisions; and making those decisions is part of the learning process.