This article is both a follow-up to the recent UNESCO Open Educational Reources Conference and the 10-year anniversary of the Cape Town Open Education Declaration. It spotlights the ten follow-up actions emanating from the conference. But also like the recent discussions of open access, it sounds a sour note on progress to date. "We have not made anything near to the progress that we'd dreamed of. Not even close." For example, "Text books are still one of the most monopolized and impenetrable parts of the publishing world, second only to scientific journal publishing." And I found this interesting: "the biggest changes in how people learn seem to have happened elsewhere, outside formal education (and somewhat outside the open education movement even)." These are the people we should be supporting - not the institutions, not the publishers, but the people who are finding a way to support and use open education despite them.
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