By 2012, the OPAL Initiative will have established the foundations for the emerging concept of open educational practices. It will have built an easy-to-use, dynamic and viable quality framework for OEP which will be validated by a self sustaining, self-organized community. We are envisioning a community which will then serve as a dynamic living lab in which carefully crafted and meaningful stories in form of case studies are shared, analysed and aggregated to be fed back as tools for improvement and innovation, to learn from and support the development of quality. The OPAL Initiative will serve as a community hub to provide methodologies to turn guidance for good practice and case studies for open educational practices into key messages and continuously improved recommendations.

This can even include laying out the foundations for the creation of degrees and accreditation systems based on OER.