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Open Education Essentials

A Practical Guide for Educators

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First Edition, 2026

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Welcome to Open Education Essentials – a short, practical guide to understanding and applying open education principles in your teaching practice.

This reader covers the foundational ideas, practical tools, and real-world examples you need to get started with open educational resources (OER) and open course design.

Work through the sections in order, or jump to any topic from the list below.

Episode 1

What is Open Education?
An introduction to open education principles, the 5Rs framework, and why content ownership matters.

Episode 2

Tools for Open Course Design
Practical tools for creating Git-backed, LMS-embeddable open course content – from Grav to Docsify-This.

Episode 3

Getting Started with Open Authoring
How to invite readers to suggest edits, view source, and contribute to your open course content via GitHub or Codeberg.
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