The presenter will share research from his forthcoming OER book, to argue the learning benefits and societal gains from moving beyond classrooms without walls (MOOC), to universities without borders in a new paradigm for formal and informal learning enabled by OER. The Web 2.0 has brought unprecedented change to learning communities and passionate affinity groups through the global democratization of information using social media. OER makes learning content accessible to anyone, anywhere with access to the Web, increasingly via mobile computing devices, for bespoke learning mashups.