Can the Web be the disruptive impetus and generative scaffolding for an education system that can achieve this goal? How can we both reform and leverage Web accessibility approaches to support this mission? These are the questions explored in this article. To achieve this crucial learning goal we need more than incremental improvement. The impact of this failure will exponentially worsen over time, given socio-technical trends.

If our formal education systems were to be graded on achieving the following assignment: 'to enable all students to reach their diverse, full potential, so that they can be prosperous, self-guided contributors to our global community,' our systems of education would be flunking. We must stretch our perceptions of quality and provide mechanisms for engaging the incredible pool of educators globally to fulfill the promise of inclusive education. To remedy this we may need to remember the importance of imperfection, mistakes, problems, disagreement, and the incomplete for engaged learning, and relinquish our notions of perfection, acknowledging that learners learn differently and we need diverse learners. Despite this OER tends to replicate the unsuccessful characteristics of traditional education. The OER community is a progressive group of educators and learners with decades of learning research to draw from, who know that we must prepare learners for an evolving and diverse reality. It is not hampered by IP restrictions can depend on collaborative, cumulative, iterative refinement of resources and the digital form provides unprecedented flexibility with respect to configuration and delivery. OER-based learning has the potential to overcome many shortcomings and problems of traditional education.

Wabi sabi ed young