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Here is a schematic that i draw upon my reading watching of Cormier (2013), Gourlay (2015) and Wiley (2010), please find as an attachment.

I tried to summarise the three different views on open education;

• Tim O'Reilly (Cormier 2013), interviewed by Evgeny Morozov suggest that openness in education (refers mostly to OER here), is a disruptive technology/concept that yields better engineering and economics.
  
• Wiley (2010) draws upon the concept of education in essence being sharing, and strongly suggest that resistance to sharing in an era of internet (a powerful tool for sharing) is futile.
• Gourlay (2015) however, adapting a more theoretical approach by quotes from Latour and Foucault suggests that the democratization of educational content by means of OER may be an enacted utopia, leading to the conception of open education as a heterotopia.

i believe there are pros and cons to both arguments, a closer look to the sustainability of openness in education may provide some clues on which is more reasonable.