Is sustainable open education possible or a pipe dream?

Dr. Tanya Brann-Barrett the Dean of Research, Teaching and Graduate Studies at CBU and I spent some time last week talking with researchers and Instructional Designers about the evolution of CBU's strategy for open education.  You can watch and listen to the recorded session at: https://landing.athabascau.ca/groups/profile/289790/cider/tab/359765/sessionsat
In this discussion, we share some of the goals that drove the development of our current 3C model of participation in open courses (spoiler alert the model offers: credit, certificate and curiosity options). We talk about what we learned from previous faculty driven approaches for opening courses and how that allowed CBU to develop supports for faculty that did not require re-conceptualizing how we currently operated. We defined sustainability, as something that was affordable and manageable to be carried out as part of the day-to-day routine of the university, but something else too. A means to support the larger vision of the faculty and university for community service and outreach. Did we successfully convince our colleagues that the idea was sustainable? You will have to listen to find out.