This article is part of Come Invent With Us: Perspectives On OEGlobal 2026, a series of viewpoints on OEGlobal 2026’s program tracks by the Open Education practitioners who make up the OEGlobal26 Host Organizations.
In this piece, Curt Newton, who has led OpenCourseWare at MIT Open Learning since 2004 — one of open education’s founding programs, and now celebrating its 25th anniversary — draws on the wisdom of natural ecosystems and the powers of collective imagination and energy to explore what it might truly mean for communities worldwide to co-create Open Education’s future.
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Consider what open education’s future could look like if communities worldwide co-create it — the power and responsibility of collective imagination.