OER Knowledge CloudConference Paper20102010/09van der Baaren, Johnde Vries, FredsustainabilityShareTechOpen Educational ResourcesengThe future of OER is highly dependent on the future of education in general. A future that will be determined by major changes in society that demand more people with a higher education and life long learning. Each vision for the long term future needs to take the qualitative and quantitative demands into account. Backcasting from a vision we arrive at useful steps to take, some of which we managed to start up in the form of pilots as part of the European research project Share.TEC.http://openaccess.uoc.edu/webapps/o2/bitstream/10609/4881/6/Baaren.pdfhttp://openaccess.uoc.edu/webapps/o2/bitstream/10609/4881/6/Baaren.pdfBaaren.pdfBarcelona